Okay, enough of the vacation photos. Back to day to day stuff.

This is the landline phone that’s on my desk in my office (the real one, not my bat cave).

We drove to Kabini river lodges to do jungle safaris in Nagarhole national forest. We did a jeep safari in the evening and a boat safari early in the morning the next day. I was hoping to see some wild cats, but alas we didn’t see any. It was still really fun though.

We flew from Bangkok to Bangalore. The plan was to spend a day in Bangalore, then go to Kabini, and then back to Bangalore.

I took Sabina to Lalbagh (we also drove by a few other landmarks). Here’re a few photos I took there.

My car. I still hadn’t even taken off the ribbon that the showroom people had put on it.

View from the roof at Eagleton.

After our whirlwind tour of Bangalore (there really isn’t that much touristy stuff to do here), I asked myself what Bangalore has to offer. The answer of course is bars and shopping. Neither of us had any interest in shopping, so we went to my favorite bar in the city: Arbor Brewing Company.

This was taken after we came back from Kabini at Eagleton.

Sabina also liked Arbor as well, so we went back a second time. This is proof that I had a magnificent vacation. My face is burned to a crisp :) I think it’s safe to say this is by far the best vacation I’ve ever had.

On our way from Phuket to Bangalore, we stopped off in Bangkok for a day. Unfortunately due to Bangkok’s crazy traffic, we spent most of our day in a car. But, we did spend a few minutes at Amphawan floating market.

Here’s a dog we found in the floating market.

On the way to the market we stopped for lunch at this place. It was pretty cool.

I used to love lollipops as a kid. I didn’t eat one here though.

Seafood at the floating market. Scary looking stuff.

Taken while we were waiting at the boarding line at the aiport. I was taking a photo of my crappy Starbucks cappuccino, and for some reason Sabina thought it was worth photographing. Oh well.

My friend Sabina and I recently went on a vacation. We went to Phuket, Bangkok, Bangalore and Kabini. Here’re some of the photos from the vacation. Most of them are mine, but a few are Sabina’s.

It all started in an empty Bangalore airport. I’ve never seen it so empty before.

The villa we were staying at (it was fantastic).

The drinks we had at dinner our first night in Phuket at a local Thai restaurant. I had the mango, and Sabina had the watermelon. Both were delicious. I ate Pad Thai for my meal. It was pretty similar to the Pad Thai I’d eaten in the US, so I was a bit surprised.

There was a night market near the villa that I went to with the housekeeper Marjorie. The night market mostly had fruits, vegetables, and other cooked food.

I took these while walking around the Laguna area (this is where the villa was).

These are photos I took at BangTao beach. It was a 10 minute walk from the villa, and I spent a lot of time on this beach. It is probably the second best beach I’ve ever been on (the best would be Coronado in San Diego).

Sabina took this photo (my slippers are in view). I have no idea how this guy was still walking around after being so burnt.

We went to Phang Nga bay to do a sea canoe tour. It was fantastic.

There were monkeys.

We made this thing called a Kratong from banana leaves, orchids and a banana trunk. Well, by we, I mostly mean our tour guide. All I did was fold a couple of banana leaves.

This is me in the process of attempting and failing spectacularly to fold my first banana leaf.

The guide made birds from orchids. Super cool.

On the way back, we sat on the sun deck. The sunset was beautiful, and it was a relatively clear night, so it was amazing to just lie back and look at the stars. I was able to spot Orion, but nothing else (like always).

Here’s a video of us leaving one of the caves.

We went on a snorkeling day trip to Similan Islands. The trip was a bust. We were on an incredibly crowded, rocky, speed boat. We barely got any snorkeling time. But, the Similan Islands are just amazingly beautiful.

And here’s a picture we took with our awesome hosts just as we were leaving for the airport.