On another rainy day, we loaded up our beach stuff and headed over to the swimming cove near our hotel again. Every time we went to hang out and swim here, we were the only ones around.

The weather cleared up a little bit and we took the motorbikes over to the most popular beach, Hat Sairee, on Ko Tao. We got some food and drinks and hung out on the sand chatting and enjoying our last day together.

Jordan and Tia were fellow English teachers in Busan, South Korea and they lived across the street from us. We consider them very good friends and it was a lot of fun to hang out with them on the beaches of Thailand.

The next day it was our turn to say goodbye to Thailand after almost four weeks of traveling around. We boarded a ferry boat in Ko Tao. The previous stop had been Ko Phangan which had its full moon party the night before. This party is very well known and thousands of people flock here every full moon – often without a place to stay – they just party all night. The seas were a little rough and dozens of these revelers got sick on the ferry back to the mainland. The ferry took us to the town of Chumphon, where we boarded an overnight sleeper train back to Bangkok.

Back in Bangkok, the city was gearing up for a massive celebration of the King’s Birthday. We hung out a bit before heading to the airport to catch a flight to Manila.

We arrived in Manila at 5am and got a hotel room to sleep a little before our next flight to Seoul, South Korea. After teaching English for a year, we backpacked around southeast Asia for over three months and it was now time to go back to Korea to collect our stuff before heading back to the states.

It was a long couple days of travel to get from Ko Tao, Thailand to Seoul, South Korea. We took a ferry, an overnight train, a few tuk-tuks, a couple taxis, two planes and a subway car on this leg of the trip.