Every weekend and leg we've planned on this journey — the ones we took, the one we're on, and the ones still ahead. Each working sheet lists more options than we can use; that's on purpose. Pick on the day.
Right nowLiving in Rajbag, South Goa · until ~Mar 2027
The long stay. The home radius you can reach on a scooter, the vegetarian cafes worth repeating, day trips worth a taxi, and one-night weekends from Gokarna to Dudhsagar — with what's open in October and what only starts with the turtles in January.
Us four · scooters + taxi · school at River House Academy
The long stay. The home radius you can reach on a scooter, the vegetarian cafes worth repeating, day trips worth a taxi, and one-night weekends from Gokarna to Dudhsagar — with what's open in October and what only starts with the turtles in January.
Three families, a week in Kerala. Not a plan yet, a menu: wild tahr and elephants, backwater boats, beaches, kalari shows, and stays big enough for 13.
Three families, a week in Kerala. Not a plan yet, a menu: wild tahr and elephants, backwater boats, beaches, kalari shows, and stays big enough for 13.
Active · 4 legs
🇹🇭Thailand →🇮🇳India
The Asia Journey
2026 · long-term slow travel
The spine everything else hangs off. Thailand first, then India — moving slowly enough that a place gets weeks, not days. The weekends below are side trips out of whichever leg we're sitting in.
1 · Krabi, Thailanddone
2 · Chiang Mai, Thailanddone — 21–28 Aug
3 · Pai, Thailanddone
4 · Goa, Indiayou are here — from ~20 Sep, ~6 months
No page yet — lives in the repo as travel/trips/2026-asia-journey.md
A working week, not a holiday: the work week is Sun–Fri, so this contains three free days and five working ones. Where to base and why, the cafés that hold a work day, the vegetarian city, and the water/animals/making list — with the elephants costed honestly against the runway.
Us four · rental car · accommodation not yet booked
A working week, not a holiday: the work week is Sun–Fri, so this contains three free days and five working ones. Where to base and why, the cafés that hold a work day, the vegetarian city, and the water/animals/making list — with the elephants costed honestly against the runway.
Which neighbourhood, and why. History, who actually lives there, rent bands, cafés and the verified drive time between every single pair of areas — then the honest verdict for four vegetarians with a work day to protect.
Which neighbourhood, and why. History, who actually lives there, rent bands, cafés and the verified drive time between every single pair of areas — then the honest verdict for four vegetarians with a work day to protect.
A mountain valley 762 curves from Chiang Mai. Where to base, the cafés that hold a work day, the best vegetarian eating of the whole trip — and the four things the guidebooks leave out, including why the Mae Hong Son loop isn't a day trip and why Pam Bok isn't worth the drive.
Us four · 32 places Google-verified · checked 22 Aug 2026
A mountain valley 762 curves from Chiang Mai. Where to base, the cafés that hold a work day, the best vegetarian eating of the whole trip — and the four things the guidebooks leave out, including why the Mae Hong Son loop isn't a day trip and why Pam Bok isn't worth the drive.
Three families on the west coast at Loh Paret — one of two beaches on the island that still swims at low tide, and the best sunset on it. The sheet that decides the weekend: boat times, tides, and a deliberately over-long menu of places.
Us four plus 1–2 families · ~8–12 people, 4–6 kids · Blue Bay Resort, booked
Open the weekend sheet
Three families on the west coast at Loh Paret — one of two beaches on the island that still swims at low tide, and the best sunset on it. The sheet that decides the weekend: boat times, tides, and a deliberately over-long menu of places.
Every mangrove channel within driving range of Klong Muang, ranked for a 7- and a 9-year-old in the front seat. Wet season is the argument for this: mangrove creeks are flat and sheltered while the islands are shut. Tide windows, mosquito hours and real prices included.
Us four · car · Ao Thalane, Bor Thor, Klong Root and four to rule out
Open the kayaking sheet
Every mangrove channel within driving range of Klong Muang, ranked for a 7- and a 9-year-old in the front seat. Wet season is the argument for this: mangrove creeks are flat and sheltered while the islands are shut. Tide windows, mosquito hours and real prices included.
Twenty air-conditioned, laptop-viable rooms within driving range of Klong Muang, ranked by whether you'd actually go. A/C, wifi, sockets and oat milk are marked confirmed only where a reviewer said so in words — and two places every 2026 listicle still recommends turn out to be permanently closed.
Yonatan · car · Klong Muang, Ao Nang and Krabi Town, plus eight ruled out
Open the work sheet
Twenty air-conditioned, laptop-viable rooms within driving range of Klong Muang, ranked by whether you'd actually go. A/C, wifi, sockets and oat milk are marked confirmed only where a reviewer said so in words — and two places every 2026 listicle still recommends turn out to be permanently closed.
A peninsula with no road in. Two clocks run the day: the tide, which decides where you can swim, and the last longtail, which decides when it ends. Phra Nang is the swim, Kohinoor is the lunch, Truce is the coffee — and six things that look good on a map get ruled out, with reasons.
Us four · car to Ao Nang, then longtail · ~3,000฿ all in
Open the Railay sheet
A peninsula with no road in. Two clocks run the day: the tide, which decides where you can swim, and the last longtail, which decides when it ends. Phra Nang is the swim, Kohinoor is the lunch, Truce is the coffee — and six things that look good on a map get ruled out, with reasons.
A land weekend north up Highway 4: national-park waterfalls, a mangrove river, an old tin-mining town, a cave. Sixteen candidates, seven of them actually reached — those carry a verdict and a real price. The other nine stayed leads.
Us four · driven from Klong Muang
Open the places guide
A land weekend north up Highway 4: national-park waterfalls, a mangrove river, an old tin-mining town, a cave. Sixteen candidates, seven of them actually reached — those carry a verdict and a real price. The other nine stayed leads.
Nothing in that state right now.
Archive — planned, not taken
Koh Yao NoiFri 7 – Sun 9 Aug 2026 · superseded 7 Aug
The same weekend, planned for the other island, until it moved to Koh Yao Yai the day before. Kept because the Tha Len ferry research, the tide table and the scooter verdict all still hold — and because Yao Noi is still a live candidate for a future weekend.
