April 20, 2005
Photos: Krabi
I tried to upload these photos a long time ago, but the computers in Sri Lanka are about as powerful as a top-of the-line 'Speak-and-Spell' by Fischer Price, with perhaps a slightly larger monitor. Thus, I am late, as always....Read this update
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April 15, 2005
Krabi: Exit
April 16th, 2005, was set to be my departure date from Thailand. It is no small coincidence that I planned that departure date sometime around June of last year, and it worked out so well. Because I wanted to stay...Read this update
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April 13, 2005
Krabi: The Madness of Songkran
I had a few days on my own after Alex left on April 11, and life went on pretty much as usual; that is to say, Krabi-style usual. I wasn’t overly concerned with meeting new people or anything, but since...Read this update
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April 12, 2005
Krabi: Halftime
The night after Alex left Krabi, April 12, there was a massive lightning storm over the sea; and I mean this was an epic storm, one that headlines conversations the next day. It was not one of those simple, clean...Read this update
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April 11, 2005
Krabi: Relocation
Before we knew it, it was April 11, Alex's last day on Krabi. It would also be the last day before we parted company, almost exactly two months after Alex bought a bike on the spur of the moment and...Read this update
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April 10, 2005
Krabi: The Point
Thanks to the heroic efforts of my ATM card, dishing out money with literally minutes left before it expired forever, I was going to be able to stay in Krabi for another two weeks, rather than another two days. It...Read this update
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April 01, 2005
Krabi: Frantic
Alex and I were sitting having a beer the evening of March 31 on East Railay Beach in Krabi - he was writing in his journal, I had my small calendar, a notebook, and a pen. It was time again...Read this update
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March 31, 2005
Krabi: The Simple Life
When we were diving in Ko Tao, our instructor at Ban's Diving Resort, Mario, impressed upon us how incredibly safe diving is, using the argument that people find works best: statistics. It's difficult to verify, and it sure sounds like...Read this update
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March 29, 2005
Krabi: The Second Wave
My first impressions of the overdeveloped island of Ko Samui were that it was exactly like a particularly characterless beach town in the United States. On March 26, however, it was more like a crappy town in England - every...Read this update
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March 28, 2005
Photos: Ko Pha-Ngan
Up to Ko Pha-Ngan now. If I could take good pictures, I would, people, I can assure you. But it seems that my life as a photo journalist is unlikely to materialize, so here are just a few photos to...Read this update
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Photos: Ko Tao
Back in Thailand with the next photos. The difference between the Thai islands and Hanoi should be pretty evident. These are from Ko Tao, where we were diving and celebrating St. Patrick's Day, though not in that order. As you...Read this update
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March 26, 2005
Ko Pha-Ngan: Wet
On my first visit to Thailand, in 2001, I visited the island of Ko Samui, just 15 km from Ko Pha-Ngan, and significantly larger and more developed than it's neighbor. It sucked then, and it sucks now. I can't see...Read this update
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March 25, 2005
Ko Pha-Ngan: The Quiet After the Storm
When I was young, we used to fly to Ireland every summer for a couple of months (we still go, of course, just not all together anymore). I was never able to quite understand the whole time-change thing, how you...Read this update
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March 24, 2005
Ko Pha-Ngan: Full Moon
By the end of the four day diving course in Ko Tao, I was pretty much ready to leave the island. The diving was great, to be sure, but otherwise Ko Tao wasn't really my personal favorite (most people disagree...Read this update
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March 21, 2005
Ko Tao: Under the Sea
I like scuba diving, it's an experience like nothing else. I first did it in Egypt in the Red Sea with my friends Emma and Jared back in 1997, then a few years later with Charlie on Zanzibar, off Tanzania....Read this update
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March 17, 2005
Ko Tao: St. PADI's Day
My flip-flops suck, and they're not even my flip-flops anymore. When you're in Thailand, you can pretty much go ahead and kiss those flip-flops goodbye. When you enter a bar, you have to leave them outside, and black flip-flops +...Read this update
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February 01, 2005
Photos: Thailand
Glenn and I are a little further on in our travels, just got back to civilization after a few days of biking through Laos. But more on that later - for the moment, yer gonna get some pics of the...Read this update
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January 26, 2005
Chiang Saen: Unstuck
This is off the topic a bit, but I fucking hate Super Glue. I know what you're thinking - how can you hate Super Glue? Everybody needs Super Glue! It's super glue! Look how strong it is! You can stick...Read this update
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Tha Ton: Getting North
Glenn and I were sure that we would take 10.30 a.m. bus from Pai on Monday, Jan. 24; what we were not sure of was where we we going to take it. The bus was heading for Chiang Mai, back...Read this update
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January 23, 2005
Pai: Mmmm....Pai
Glenn and I were heading out on our third night in the small town of Pai when a familiar voice appeared behind us. "Hey man, I thought I heard your voice." I turned around to see my buddy Alex from...Read this update
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January 22, 2005
Chiang Mai: Switching Tactics
Glenn and I were sitting in a restaurant in Chiang Mai that first day, checking out guide books for Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. Despite the enormity of options in those amazing places, we were having trouble deciding exactly what we...Read this update
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January 20, 2005
Bangkok: Keep Out of Reach Of Children
I left Nepal on Sunday, January 16. I had been sleeping about 2-3 hours per night over the previous few nights, including the relatively sleepless night on the bloody sheets in the maternity ward in the Kathmandu Hospital. (If you...Read this update
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