Seems like a long time since the last update - this update is being typed on the top of a massive bus - heading south from Trang to the border of Malyasia. This bus is about 4 hours to cover under 200 km so lots of stops and starts. The kid in the seat in front of me has such bad BO that I have Tiger Balm smeared all over my face trying to mask the wafts.....I digress......I have been on island time - literally and figuratively. After a short time in the city ...

Bangkok to Krabi to Ao Nang to Ton Sai.In the Bangkok airport while trying to find my flight to Krabi, met Ploi, a new friend. She lives in Bangkok and was on her way to Krabi to catch a little boat to the island of Jum to hang out with her friend for a few weeks. We were both waiting at the wrong checkin counter so we had issues in common right of the bat. At the Krabi airport I ran into Thomas and Sylvie from Switzerland (Thomas had turned 40 in Hanoi). The...

Hot and Rainy and Steamy in TrangSunday - In Trang, the interior city in Southern Thailand where Janis used to teach a few years ago. It is hot when the sun shines and very wet when it doesn't. We were lucky yesterday - arrived just before the rain started and rain it did and is again this afternoon. The thunder is shaking the buildings and the lightening is lighting the sky. They are full monsoon rains - unseen in Canada. The sky opens and the rain fall...

Trains Planes and Buses.The long travel day and night continues. I am sitting in the Bangkok Airport, waiting for the check in counter to open. My capitulation back into civilization has been quite jarring. Kind of like the day I flew from Cairo, a sweltering hot city teeming with 30 million people and flew to Inverness Scotland, where there were 30 million sheep and three ladies in kilts and sweaters.Leaving Vang Vieng was hard. It is so beautiful there, the...

Lovely, lazy, long Laos days. I am writing this from my hammock, hanging outside my pretty big thatched roof, bamboo walled bungalow, not on the banks of the Mekong I found out, but on the banks of some other river. It is Sunday and I can see three women in peaked hats fishing mid river, lots of little kids playing in the river, about 20 two man skinny boats moored directly across from me and three neon white tourists sitting on the river bank. I haven't s...