i made it to a week! and am loving it for the most part! Ended up staying 4 nghts in Bangkok....(mainly because my guest house was SO cute, the food vendours are amazing and there was so much to see!) Started off playing tourist by going to visit the temples- i tell you, the journey getting there is in part an adventure! After only getting 100m down the street i'd already been told by tuktuk drivers that no, the wat pho and grand palace were closed (scam #1)- lu...

I made it! So i'm now in Bangkok and couldn't love it more! Arrived at 1 in the morning last night after and 8 hour stopover in Sydney where, no kidding, every second security guard had 'Walzing Matilda' as their rigtone. After arriving i was picked up by a pre-arranged company tour guide lady and her driver- after ten minuted she already offered me to be her daughter (as she only had about a zillion sons which she found amusing when i tried to pronouce them)- ...

Only 5 more sleeps then i'll be on a plane on my way!!! I have my pack, 80% of stuff i need, a drug collection that could compete with any decent pharmacy for size, a ticket, insurance, and $800 worth of diseases running through my veins...(believe it or not the vaccination list even listed i whole lot more i was welcome to buy had i wished in include some that sounded more like an asian food menu; Japanese encephalitis, escherichia coli, pneumoccocal......-i re...