My vacation is nearing an end, I will be flying home in a few hours. I am in South Korea at the moment awaiting the second leg of my journey. I have a 12 hour layover and the airline hooked me up with a really nice hotel. I was going to explore the city, but after getting to this hotel, seeing how awesome it is, and realizing how exhausted I am, I decided my tour of South Korea was best spent here in my hotel room. Free computer, a gigantic television, a fantastic shower... So, my last few days were spent [View Full Entry]

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Hello all. My trip is almost over. I leave for home tonight. After spending a few days in the town of Krabi recovering from my food poisoning in an air-conditioned hotel with television I moved on to Ko Pha-Ngan to meet up with my new friend Charlotte, one of the British group I have been tagging along with the last few weeks. The journey to Ko Pha-Ngan was rediculously stressful. I was so sure of myself in catching the right bus and thought I knew all there was to know about being taken at the bus stations, but somehow I still [View Full Entry]

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Hey everybody. It has been over a week since I last posted and my family thinks I am kidnapped or in prison at this point. I am alive and well and in Krabi. Last Sunday I took a bus from Phuket to Krabi where I caught a longtail boat to Railay to a beach called Ton Sai. Ton Sai is a rock climbing mecca with bars and restaurants lining the beach and bunglows set up on the hill behind. There are no roads on Ton Sai and access is on foot. I met some British girls while looking for accomodation since [View Full Entry]

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I have spent the last few days in Phuket. I flew in on Thursday evening and arrived at my guesthouse, Fantasy Hill, at 9 at night. The place was located between two beaches called Kata and Karon. This area was a lot more mellow than the more popular party beach called Patong which was further north. So, Fantasy Hill was the cheapest place I could find in the area. It was not really any fantasy I have ever had though. No hot water and a little grubby. It was in a good location though and an easy walk to the beaches. [View Full Entry]

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I am in Chiang Mai now staying with some family friends. It is great having local tour guides! They drove me all around Chiang Mai the last 2 days showing me places I would never have seen and taking me to great places to eat that I would never have found. It is nice getting a locals perspective. On Sunday Jim, May and their son Jake picked me up at the airport and we first went to get some food at a great Vietnamese place. We then went to a Wat (temple) outside of town that was excavated after a landowner [View Full Entry]

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Yes, I am still alive and well and not yet in prison, kidnapped, or sold into prostitution. I even talked to strangers and got a little drunk. Amazing I am still alive I know. So, the flight was LONG. And the food was horrible, but I had to eat it being that my flights were so incredibly long. Anyway, got to Bangkok late last night, checked into my hostel, all was well...I managed the public transportation pretty well on no sleep. The people here are great. I have not felt uncomfortable at all. No high pressure sales tactics like I was [View Full Entry]

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