My experience of Thailand is a land filled with people offering lots of unsolicited services, help and advice. At times it's suspicious as when a woman intercepted us last night at the train station to sell us tickets for our ferry here and give us walking directions to our hotel. The tickets she gave us had a date from 2011 and we ended up walking around abandoned streets looking for our hotel in the middle of the night. But as it turns out, her directions were spot on; and as she promised, a shuttle arrived at our hotel in the morning, which took us to a bus, which took us to a pier, and onto a boat we went, with questionable tickets. We still wonder if it was our money or the ferry company's that she took. But to us she was an angel, even if a proprietary one. And we made it.
Once here, we found ourselves in a paradise. As we tried to arrange the pick-up at the pier for our hotel, we swatted motorcycle taxi drivers like flies. They came at us from all directions, battling our untrusting foreignness and distractibility with loud insistence. Once our pick-up truck arrived, we hopped in the back and went for a rocky roller coaster ride through dirt roads of Ko Tao to get to our resort of Baan Talay. Our hut is on the side of a small lush mountain overlooking a cove in the sea. There isn't really any way to get anywhere other than the roller coaster pick-up truck which comes a few times a day, so we lounge in the common area, eating massuman curry and listening to reggae music. Way to take it easy.
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