Todd and Lisa's RTW trip

The water is perfectly clear turquoise, the sand is fine and white, and the mountains are spectacularily luscious and green. We have found paradise. We have become totally relaxed and think we may stay here forever!!! We found a great ‘scuba resort’ and have started our PADI open water dive certification course. Acommodations are not to shabby. We have a beachfront bamboo bungalow. We are really sad that our friends that said they would meet us here were unable to (you know who you all are). But we understand… “it’s to expensive”. I mean our BEACHFRONT BUNGALOW is costing us a whopping $5 a day… Saddle up for Bali guys!!!!!

You can see what you’re missing at: kohtaoseashell.com

We have to go to sleep now, because we have to wake up early to scuba dive with whale sharks!!!

Below are a few last pictures from India and the rest from here… Enjoy

While we wait for the photos—— a few weeks ago our ipod broke. It just froze up on us. We tried and tried to fix it. We stared at it hopelessly for hours. How can we make it 7 more months with no music?? and will we have to carry this expensive piece of shit with us??? Believe us when we tell you they dont have apple computers in the internet cafes. Our depression over this issuse has been growing more and more severe. Not only would we not have music, but it was also how we planned on storing our digital photos. Thank god we havent put any on it yet!!!

Well when we arrive here in Koh Toa, paradise answered our prayers (really our curses). We found a british guy here that not only has a mac… but knows how to do computer stuff. It’s not totally a happy ending though. In order to restore our ipod, he had to erase everything on it. So all of our music is gone (and all of Brandans hard work), but at least we have his. And he’s even got LL cool J !! We feel confident saying that the ipod is the most expensive piece of shit we own!!!

INDIA–

Here is Todd being a real man and strapping our bags on top of the bus. please turn head to notice the puke out the window. Like we said, the bus drivers do not stop for sick passengers!!

In India they don’t use silverware- they just smush all the food around and eat with there finger. We figured out how to use pieces of chapati as silverware. We are happy to be using forks again!!

But we are not complaining about it!!! We arrived in Bangkok safe and tired. We caught a train and a boat and we are now on the Island of Koh Tao. It is more beautiful than we expected. We are researching which place to do our dive certification class, and will tell you all about it once it starts. It is a hygienic shock to our system to be out of India.

Much Love

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