Getting Ready for Khao Lak, Thailand

Today I sit here at my laptop in beautiful Palo Alto, California. Just blocks away is Stanford University and criss-crossing in front of me are the visions of wealth and pretentiousness. In a few weeks I'll be boarding yet another airliner to hover across this vast globe to a little known area of Thailand named Khao Lak (ka-oh lack). I am returning to this tsunami-torn region not to engage in the multitude of adventures available to the average tourist, but to begin another round of rebuilding the communities lost in the wave. This time, however, I have come with a specific mission in mind: Playgrounds. After returning from my last trip in January, just weeks after the tsunami, I founded Operation Playground and have been able to raise money through private funding to build playgrounds for the children. This is my quest. And I'm giving up my life here in Palo Alto, with the criss-crossing of wealth and pretentiousness. And it feels really f**king good. So, join me and lets get going. Oh, by the way...if you wish to be removed from my journal, just ask. I won't mind, but I will have you thrown to the lions.

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