Rob and Anna's travel adventure

Anna's entry:
Back to Bangkok, again…. Is this the 4th of 5th time?! We haven’t planned to come here that frequent, it just happened. We haven’t planned to extend our South East Asia adventure by another 5 months either, it also just happened due to some unforeseen circumstances. Nine months ago we only planned on exploring India and Thailand, however, during our course through Asia, we also ventured on to Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos. With an exception of Mumbai-Bangkok connection, we explored South East Asia all by land – trains, buses, boats – not a single additional flight has been taken. And, that was a contributing factor of ending up in Bangkok more than once, twice, three times, four times, stopped counting… We planned on traveling only for five months, but we ended up living in Asia for nine months. There were good times, there were bad times, we loved it, we hated it, and we definitely lived it. We accepted all of it; we became part of Asia, and Asia became part of us.

I am writing this final entry well after our return back to San Francisco slowly adjusting to a reversed culture shock to a “normal” North American reality. I am relieved being back, and yet my mind can not stop wondering what could we have experienced if we went further South from the Malaysian peninsula? Will we ever return to that part of the world, or would a better question be ‘when’ will we return to that part of the world?