I should have known better.

After 16 incredible days on Ko Lanta (possibly the island of my future residence ) – I took the 2 hour high speed boat over to Ko Phi Phi. I have incredible memories here from last year, the diving is spectacular, and the photography opportunities are better. I think I mainly came for the memories though.

For some strange reason, Ko Phi Phi in March 2006 will always sumarize my Thai island experience of my first year of vagabonding. Despite being touristy and crowded now, the feelings I get here are unreplaceable. I came back looking for that again, but things are always different the second time around – and I am looking with new eyes. I have lost my vagabonding innocence.

Everything here appears to be booked up, so I ended up in a guesthouse (rather than bungalow) for a whopping $23 a night. Compared to the $10 a night I was paying in Lanta, that stings a bit. Luckily, I will only be here for 2 more days, and then I begin the long and arduous trip back to Bangkok, which will eventually put me in London, and back in the US for Christmas.

It is also the end of my 2 year vagabonding trip. I find myself fighting off “vacationitis” daily…the depression that people on holiday go through their last few days that makes them splurge with reckless abandon.

Actually, I prefer to call going back to the US for a short while a “breather”.

This adventure is far from over.