I just can’t wait to get on the road again….

In an odd twist of events, our summer travel plans have been all over the map – literally!  Initially Brooklyn and I were going to go for her ‘grad trip’ back to Thailand, but then in what appears to be an almost yearly event, some political protests turned into civil unrest and it looked like Thailand was going to be off the table for travel.  Between that and a change of jobs for Brooklyn, she has decided to post-pone her trip for another time.  She really wants to go back to Thailand and wants to be able to do it when she knows her schedule is not in flux, and that her destination is not subject to change.

At any rate as we were doing all the planning, Mrs Columbus decided that she was going to come along, so when Brooklyn put her trip off, we started to look at other places the 2 of us could go for a little R&R.  We looked at Costa Rica, the Caribbean, and some spots in South America, but it seemed like Mother Nature was mostly working against us – volcanoes erupting in Ecuador and Guatemala, a giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the start of what is predicted to be a very active hurricane season in the Caribbean seemed to just put some sort of dark cloud over each spot we started looking at.

And then the odd twist of fate happens – after about 4-5 weeks of protests in Bangkok, the whole thing ends with a couple of days of rioting and a crackdown by the Thai military.  After a couple of weeks it seems that all is normal back in our beloved Land of Smiles – so one morning on the weekend there we are sitting down having some breakfast bantering about where on our narrowing short list of places we should go, or if we should just give up and stay home, and Mrs Columbus gets on the phone to see what our options are like for points tickets.  And then BAM, after weeks of indecisiveness she spent a couple of hours on the phone, and just booked them.

Our final destination – yup, back to Thailand 🙂  We figured if we are going to use up our points we might as well get good value for them, and Mrs Columbus feels good about places she knows, and after the great time we had in Asia last year, you just can’t go wrong with something you know and love.