Nomadic Cat: Dave Ate a Scorpion.

My days as a lone traveler officially ended yesterday evening. I am no longer on a journey by myself. While this makes me feel a little bit strange- seeing as how much I have come to enjoy my own company for the first time in my life- you really can't understand the amount of joy I feel having my best friend back within arms reach.

I met Dave at the airport last night, walking around the arrivals floor for two hours. I was there about 40 mins early just to make sure I didn't miss him. I paced around nervously, realizing we didn't set a meeting place because neither of us would know where to meet- it's literally a foreign airport to us. I realized, as I began to feel pulsing in my head, that it had been quite some time- maybe weeks- since panic and stress had been in my blood system. Dislike.

I had been walking around for so long that I thought I might not find him, and what if he missed his flight in South Korea like he thought he might?? I was staring into the screen that filmed the passengers exiting the baggage areas, searching for his face, when he came up beside me and wrapped his arm around me. I had planned a big show of a reunion, but the shock of him being beside me for the first time in three months left me speechless and sobbing into his shirt. Don't tell him I told you but we both cried. We were quite happy to see each other.

We made our way back to the hotel after an hour long taxi ride, Dave as wide-eyed as I was my first day in Bangkok. Today we walked around all day, seeing temples and eating street food. He is having a wonderful time and I am so happy to see him enjoying being here with me. We leave Bangkok tomorrow evening to head to Kho Lanta, an Island in the south on the Andaman Sea side of Thailand. It will be a 14 hour bus ride, and then an unknown-amount-of-time boat ride to the island from Krabi. We are both really looking forward to some beach time.

We realized that this will be our first real vacation just the two of us, outside of some smallish road trips within the US. We will also be taking our first flight together from Phuket to Chiang Mai on the 10th. How do two travel loving people date for almost 6 years and not check those things off the list? Not sure, but very happy to be doing it now :)