http://blogs.bootsnall.com/karensgarden Karen's Adventures Around-The-World Tue, 13 May 2008 04:57:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en sabaidee ka, dear readers. i'm STILL on koh tao enjoying (for the most part) my little bit of paradise. the bits i have not enjoyed so much include torrential rain storms, 100 mph winds (or at least it seems like they were that gusty), and the flying around of detritus ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/karensgarden/living-on-a-thin-line.html after much careful thought and consideration, and due to some heavy influence from a certain person or persons, i have opted to give Malaysia and Indonesia a miss this time around. the fact is, now that it is early may i would only have about 9 days to travel south ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/karensgarden/island-fever.html first off, sorry folks for all of the profanity in the previous post. i sometimes wonder how it is that i can be so moronic and vented at you, dear readers. for this, i sincerely apologize. so anyway, samui wasn't a total loss. i got some business done there and had ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/karensgarden/when-the-rain-comes-they-run-and-hide-their-heads.html dear readers, today is the Very Worst Day Of My Life (in 2008). my iPod with all of my most killerest, favoritest music has been erased at the internet cafe. i never should have left Koh Tao or this never would have happened to me. and all i wanted to ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/karensgarden/the-worst-day-of-my-life.html once upon a time on an island far, far away in the gulf of thailand there occurred an event so profound that all the natives went into a deep shock and everyone wondered if things would ever return to normal again. this island, called ko tao in the native language, ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/karensgarden/gone-bamboo.html i've managed to retrieve the photos from the hackjob and all is again well in cyberspace...for the time being. after spending a night on a beat up old rickety local train from bangkok to chumpon, southeastern thailand, and then a 2 hour "fast" ferry (high speed catamaran, for those who are ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/karensgarden/fixed-pix-and-island-livin.html my shutterfly photo account was hacked somewhere in asia, probably hanoi or possibly phnom penh. last time i put photos up in an internet cafe was in cambodia, so it was sometime between siem reap and my last internet destination, hanoi. i suspect hanoi because you just can't trust those ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/karensgarden/hacked-asian-style.html greetings, dear readers, from hanoi. in case you never knew, hanoi rock - so much so that a heavy metal band named themselves this very thing, "hanoi rocks". hanoi is in northern vietnam. it rained here today, the first rain i've seen since the first of february when i was ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/karensgarden/a-holiday-in-cambodia.html what does one do when one has seen all the deep fried pig heads and feet and frogs to eat in the night market and sampled the lao lao rice whiskey and gazed in amazement at the hand woven silk handicrafts? one goes elephant riding, that's what one does. so ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/karensgarden/an-effervescing-elephant.html sabaidy, dear readers, and greetings from vientiane, laos. we say "lao" over here, not "laoS". ya gotta drop the "s" if ya want to speak like a native. anyhootie, after a very mellow few days in northern thailand, nong khai to be exact, i've arrived in lovely laid back and ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/karensgarden/paco-lolo-in-laos.html