waiting...

I've been doing a lot of waiting the past few days...for ferries, trains, buses, and places to open. Luckily I'm not too impatient. The past couple of days have been spent traveling from southern Thailand to the north. Because we wanted to travel cheap our options were not so great. On Thursday we left Koh Tao on a ferry. After a 2 hour ferry ride we took a night bus, from 7 pm until 5 am to Bangkok. 5 am-2:30 pm on Friday was spent waiting to take the train up to Chiang Mai. We rode the train from 2:30pm until 6am on Saturday. It was an interesting experience. The landscape was beautiful. Lots of beautiful rice paddies, little villages, and random temples and huge Buddha statues scattered everywhere. At one point we passed an old temple that had at least 35 little monkeys running around outside. Since the train was overnight all of our seats turned into little beds, which was nice.
It's not so much the traveling part that has been annoying, but just the feeling of being so displaced. We have been killing time with nowhere in particular to go. It's not so fun exploring and lugging a huge backpack around, while trying not to stick out as a tourist!
Now we have made it to Chiang Mai. As I'm writing this I'm currently waiting to check into a hostel, go figure. Not sure what's on the agenda, but I'm thinking a nice Thai massage is in order for today. Planning on taking a Thai cooking class in the next few days.
Ok, I have one minute left...sorry for the abrupt ending. I will write more later!