Farewell Bangkok

Our last couple days in Bangkok saw over 14,000 visitors in the bookshop. I was working in the ticket booth when we opened and after only an hour, the line was three fold long and wrapped the shipyard warehouse. You couldn't even move in the shop it was really encouraging to see all the people coming out to see the ship. In total we had 52, 000 visitors in our shop while in Bangkok.


Yesterday the deckies lifted the ticket booth, vans and gangways up by crane and we departed the shipyard at 2pm Before we left though, the port had arranged a traditional Thai music and dance performance to send us off. It was a really great way to close our time in the city as we prepared for our five day journey to Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.



Even though our shop is closed during the voyage, we had a lot of work to do as we did a full pack down of the entire inventory. Because some trips at sea can be rough all the shelves moved to the center of the shop and be securely chained down and covered with a tarp. While it was a lot of work we had a lot of fun.


All bookshop staff get redistributed to other departments during the voyage so I asked to be put on the deck. Today I scrubbed the decks and had a great time doing some physical work and breathing fresh air.


As the ship sailed through the vast ocean I was reminded and humbled by how small man really is.