Whoa! Saigon is totally great. After Phenom Phen I was thinking "oh fuck not another creepy postwar-bombed flat-angry-dusty city....." But this is great. This is like Chinatown and Bangkok and New York Making out in a scooter factory.
Chris got a volunteer job as a reasearch assistant in Khao Lak National Park in South Thailand. His accomodation covers me- as food is minimal. I am going to live on a beach and not work, or maybe volunteer, for two months!
Hear ye- hear ye- if you would like to meet my new best friend and lover- or just read better posts about what I am doing-please add cantalouphead and comment creepily on the journal of a stanger as only lj can allow you to do...
I went to the biggest market in thailand today. 15000 vendors, 200000 people a day. Some of the clothes are so hip. It was totally fun and crazy. There were exotic pet squirrels and hairless dogs and I ate tasty whole squid-on-a-stick (apologies to my vegan readers).
I now have a very bright pretty japanese girl skirt and a hankering for more
Is it cold there or what? give me some descriptive weather blurbs so I can stop feeling sorry for myself when it drops to 20 at night and I get Cold...
It seems I am not the best overseas poster. I just read Chris's introductory post (on a diffrent site) and realized that I am piss poor at being colourful about colourful experiences and rather good at blowing the ordinary out of preportion
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I sucker some big muscly first time-travelling-overseas-dude into escorting me from the airport last night. In exchange I actually got us a place to sleep and a reasonable taxi fare. He's gone to meditate now and I am going to go find a better room...