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So, 2009 is ages behind. The new year is hip, hot, and progressively tiring. With the transitions that have occurred over the last year I find myself asking myself whether it is a time to reflect the past year or preview the present. It's been my first complete year spent in Asia, which came with many surprises, pleasures, and frustrations. And ( Read more... )

Weeks and months have passed and somehow I find myself occasionally reminding myself, thinking back on how long it has been since I've written...anything. The usual answer is always the same, too long with too many oddities and occasions gone by to recollect the thoughts and days. A Saturday afternoon passed in a pub around a table of aging British ( Read more... )

It's my seventh month in one location, this tiny rock of 21 km2. I live here and think it's a lot for some people, the constant confrontation with people who know your name but missed the story and the overwhelming inability to escape the constant confrontation of your personality. It's a bump in the ocean where everyone's a liar looking for the ( Read more... )

There's got to be something wrong. How often do you hear a man lay humbly down the claim that he is a hopeless romantic? Something to be pitied and admired. From what I've heard, it is usually not much of a problem for them, and as much as I tried to rid the idea, it keeps coming back to me that I am, well being all-entirely different, one in the ( Read more... )

Right now, I've been sitting in Cafe Del Sol for the last few hours, checking the net and being grateful for the connectivity that recent power outages have prohibited. The chances, however, shouldn't be limited to the world outside this island, because the opportunity to connect with any one of the hundred of ex-pats and tourists on Koh Tao are ( Read more... )

After breakfast wi' wint to Carrefoure. Yew kne'w z' Carrefoure? Although sarongs are available for one dollar in a variety of tacky, beach-print colors and sizable to easily enough wrap a duo up into a beach burrito, we wanted those good ol' fashion American style beach towels. Now, the buffet (dare I say gourmet?) breakfast that I did not partake ( Read more... )

Within an hour after discussions were had on Indonesia's itinerary from Bali to Java and Sulawesi, a drastic revolutionary climax was reached. The three of us were in search of something fresh. Something that would, at least for us, be another stepping stone to our foundation. A few hours later- luck be had - we were set to spend three weeks ( Read more... )

Kanchanaburi is a two hour bus ride from Bangkok and will put you out 100 baht if you can get yourself to a bus station and buy your own ticket, or you can have it arranged for you at a price of 300 baht. Thailand in high season is nothing spectacular, and Kanchanaburi, located on the River Kwai, is where we initially chose to escape. It ( Read more... )

It's been about 9 months that I've been out "on the road" so to say. With this in mind, I can see why it's been hard to me to find the words to explain what is going on around me because it's a constant flux in everything constant. Location. Food. Weather. People. Time ( Read more... )