In December 2016, Shaun and I and a couple of friends decided to spend our New Years in Thailand, Thailand in December right?! My friends had gotten a travel agent to book everything for them, from the flights, transfers and hotels. We decided we could probably do it cheaper if we planned it ourselves. In hindsight, it may have been a lot easier if we had just booked with my friends, but the experience of planning it all (including all the things that went wrong) was an experience I actually feel quite fondly towards. The plan was that we would fly from JHB to Kenya, Kenya to Bangkok, where we…