I am back in South America and I've made a direct line for the beach! After four months working in Alaska I am due for some fun in the sun and surf with a little healthy bikini action thrown in for good measure. I'm in Mancora Peru, a place I sort of know well from my first time through here in 2005. The last time , however, I was recovering from a serious ankle sprain and I couldn't walk. I was the famous gringo that limped down the street with the aid of a broo...

With a fresh supply of "fun tickets" in my bank account, I am armed and ready for more international adventure. A nice long vacation is what I need at this point and that's what I'm going to do. In order to call it vacation, however, I've learned that one must actually do work first. I just spent the last four months working at The Royal Coachman Lodge near Bristol Bay Alaska north of Dillingham. This was my second season working there and this year brought a few...

My time in South East Asia is finished and I need more Fun Tickets....that's what my boss in Alaska calls the U.S. Dollar. My last stop in Thailand was the hippy, mountain town of Pai. Signs all around town said "Pai...Do Nothing". So I did. I had some rain as well so that limited doing too much of anything. Back in Chiang Mai, I took a Thai cooking class. Why, I'm not sure but I did learn two things...1.) how to buy a good egg and 2.) how to burn my house down...

Ahh.....back in the Land of Smiles. The Thai people really do smile more than anyone, anywhere. I'm in the north to see and do whatever it is that people come here to see and do....which I have recently learned is alot! When I arrived, I checked into what turned out to be a weird guest house run by a Thai "woman" named "Julie". She appears to have all the womanly curves in all the right places but it is very obvious that Miss Julie was once Mr. Jules ...or someth...

The mission my travel mates and I have chosen to accept is a four day motorbike ride around the Bolaven Plateau in southern Laos. This region is very near the Ho Chi Minh trail so we bombed the hell out it during the Vietnam war. The country side is still littered with unexploded ordnance that the locals like to collect and sell as scrap metal... or blow themselves up, whichever comes first. It's safe to say that unless you're looking to become another Laos stati...