The Wandering Enginerds

After catching one of the brightest, most vivid sunsets from our Sydney - Bali flight we were greeted by the 95% humidity and taxi/tourist hounds of Indonesia! I almost forgot how peaceful it was to explore cities without multiple people yelling at you from various distances. Anyways, Indonesia temps seem to fluctuate only about 6-8 degrees throughout a day while humidity stays above 80% as it rains nearly every day. It's not quite hot enough to make you constantly sweat, but it's close. We quickly learned how chaotic driving in a populated city can be as our ride from the airport to our hostel involved sharing two (2) lanes with two (2) cars and multiple motorbikes at the same time. Indonesians don't care for lane markers or turn signals very much. Glad we're not renting a car here! We had a free day before starting our PADI Advanced Open Water dive certification class so we walked the long stretch of beach near our hostel which was sporadically filled with older ...

I think the best way to describe Thailand that it is an interesting country. There is some beautiful scenery and some very unique things to do but you definitely need to get out of the cities to find the beauty and adventures. I arrived in Bangkok from Indonesia late on a Sunday night but the first thing I noticed was how they have a lot of the chain stores/products that the Western world does. There are signs for Netflix, McDonald's, 7-11s are literally on every corner, Tesco and Boots stores (main UK chains).  Aside from these things, there's almost no similarities to the Western world. Bangkok, of which I will be happy to never turn to, was one of the most polluted, smelly, dirty, congested places I've ever been. All the buildings were super run down. There didn't seem to be much new construction going on and the main river was worse than Lake Erie back when it caught on fire from being so trashed. My ankles and lower legs were black from walking around all day. The ...