hello hello! so were in chang mai and its hot. wow is it hot. i think about 40. but at night it cools off nicely... and we splurged for an AC room and are quite comfy. the city hasnt changed much since i was here last and thats great. chang mai is awesome. people are great and almost in slow motion and the food finger lickin. we took a cooking course yesterday so were ready to make our own... when we can eat next... We ate like 7 meals each yesterday! and all between 10am and 2pm. ugh. i was stuffed. but it was good stuffed.

so we actually climbed! TWICE!! once in the gym here and once out side. it was great to be back on the wall. only we are sore, crazy sore. like from 3 days ago i still have trouble holdign the throttle on our bike. and to make matters worse, on the way out to the climbing crag, at the very end we had to drive up this steep hill that was all loose gravel... cutting to the point our bike went over and sam burned her calve on the exhaust pipe, so now with the sore muscles and she has a big ugly burn mark on her leg and gravel size bruises all over her legs and but. good thing she wont be in a bikini for a little while! but the climbing was great, and we both are stoked to get back on it again.

well anyways thats all for now. were going to a snake farm today, sams been talking about it every since we heard of it, so it should be sweet. oh! if any of you get a chance, the movie crank 2 is freaking sweet. now we may be television deprived but we thought it was the best movie weve been in months... only movie weve seen in month... but still, non stop action and senseless nudity is always worth a gander.

take care

LUKE

hello everyone. how are things? well were finally at a cheap email place so this will be better and less rushed. down on the beach its so pricey, you'd get into a panic trying to get the writting done fast, but its like like an eighth the price here so thats better.

well after a long long trip from the beach were up in chang mai. pretty sweet. our trip here consisted of 13 hours on a bus that rocked like it had hydrolics! serious, began to think we had some mexican gangsters driving, the way it would bounce. sounds fun but on an over night its not super condusive to sleeping... well not for me, sam on the other hand gets all hopped up on gravol and no matter how hard her head bounces on my knee, shes still out cold! and to make matters worse these drivers were freaking nuts. the entire NIGHT ride, they didnt turn on their head lights once! not once. on high ways and everyting. and when ever other tourists went and complained they would scream and shout in thai at them till the tourist ran away! seriously! i think they were drunk! well then we got dropped off in bangkok at 5am and we hung out till 5pm to catch a train to chang mai. that was pretty nice. compaired to the last trains we were on, this was delux! no maimed beggers trying to touch your legs, no clown walking up and down the aisles screaming in a high pitched voice "CHAI!!! CHAI WALLA CHAIIIIII" the iiiii on the end was drawn out till he was out of breath, no matter what the hour (he was selling tea) no constant fear that we'd get jacked or robbed at any time. it was great. i slept like a baby. sam didnt take any gravol so she didnt sleep to well. but ya. two long days and were all good. went to the sunday night market last night and that was cool. its huge! and today i think were going to rent a scooter and cruise around town. when i was here last i stayed for like 5 weeks, so its pretty cool being back in this town.

anyways. hope your all great. im putting more pix up on flickr, sorry for such a delay. its been hard tryign to get them on. take care everyone.


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much love to everyone

hello everyone. this will have to be super short cause email on the beach is 4 times more expensive than elsewhere so ill write short. we are on railay beach and its great. the sun is hot, water is warm and the cliffs are high and steep. beautiful. but we are NOT going to climb! haha. (for those that dont know railay is preemo climbing) a couuple reasons. first, we have no gear and rental is silly. (i think we have moral quams against renting climbing stuff) second, deep water soloing is pricy to rent a boat for the day, and third, i accidentally kicked a step and got a big gnarly flapper on the tip of my toe. so all and all, we are just going to chill and snorkel. oh and we found this slack line out over the water between two islands that you have to swim to and ive been trying that. holy crap i havent gotten my ass kicked on a line ever that bad. like everytime i land head first in the surf, then you have to swim back to the island and climb up the ropes and barnicalsto try again. after 8 attempts you're just exhausted! while ive been landing head first and floundering in the water, sam has been focusing on the sun and relaxing on the beach. wow its paying off. shes like 14 shades darker on the Sam Dark Scale! (trust me is alot) while shes getting browner our buddy joel from joshs work seems to be getting redder. man i feel sorry for the guy. 5th day in thailand and hes had to spend the last 2 in the house cause of the burn. shitty.

anyways things are great. thinking about heading south to koh phi phi and chrecking things out down there but well see. love you everyone. take care.

LUKE

hey everyone how are things? were doign great.

we met up with josh and ali the other day and then met up with joshs buddy from home, yesterday. we arrived n bangkok and have been loving it. alot like i remember from six years ago. even the smell was the same. i love it. foods great, people are great, ITS great. so were leaving for krabi tonight on an over night bus and should be on the beach climbing in the next day, which we are all stoked for. i was talking to some climbers the other day and it sound like deep water soloing is pretty feasible there so i think we might bve doing that alot this next little while. for those that dont know its when you rent a boat and get brought out to a rockface, and you climb out of the boat and on to the rock and when you fall you dont fall on rope or a pad you in to the ocean. and its all about how gutsy you are and how high you want to climb. should be great.

anyways, hope your all great. ill write again when we get to the beach. take care.

LUKE and SAM