Sorry it has been a long time since I filled you guys in (if you can even remember who I am). After leaving Brisbane a friend who I had travelled with from Kununurra met me with his van which we drove down to Surfers Paradise. On arriving the place was packed as the Indy Car races were being held at the weekend. This gave us the opportunity to race the van around the track - well sort of anyway. After driving around town for a while we found a campsite to stay and parked the van outside while we got some lunch. On returning I had found my small backpacker which contained all my cloths, camera and music player was gone! As was Ralfs dirty washing (they steal some strange stuff in Australia). Anyway after making ... read more

After leaving Perth for Kununurra I was glad to see that the weather on my arrival was nice and hot, as Perth was starting to get a little chilly. I was met by the guys from the farm and given a ute so that I could get around and sort out the house that they had supplied me. To my surprise I was given a 5 bedroom house with 2 bathrooms and a kitchen to myself located about 15km outside the main town and about the same distance from the farm. The house was excellent except for a couple of snakes that I had to get removed as they had not paid any rent. Well two of them I got my next door neighbour to remove (yes I was scared) and the other one I removed ... read more

Ok so the blog below is quite long so for those who cannot be bothered to read it the outline is that I started in Darwin and took a month to drive down the West coast of Australia to Perth camping along the way. Arriving in Darwin at three in the morning I caught a bus into town and treated myself to a proper fry up, not quite a full English but good enough. I then went in search of some accommodation and kept being told that everywhere was full as I had happened to land on the weekend of the Darwin Cup. After eventually finding somewhere to stay I was promptly kicked out the next morning and was again homeless. I had decided to buy a car to travel down the West coast and so ... read more

It was a hard decision leaving Koh Tao but at the time there wasn't enough work and plus not having my own equipment I wasn't making any cash. Drinking my traveling money away at the Lotus bar I decided enough was enough and to move on boo hooo. However I did end my stay with the best six dives ever with loads of Grey Reef sharks another turtle and some excellent schools of fish! Before going to Malaysia I stopped off at Koh Pangyang a slightly bigger island south of Koh Tao. On arriving I had no where to stay so convinced two girls to let me stay on there porch in my hammock, lucky I had my mozzy net too so had a comfy nights sleep. The next day I acquired some accommodation in ... read more

The border crossing to Laos from Chang Kong to Hayonxia was uneventful but very picturesque crossing over the Mekong in a small ferry and then getting my visa stamped before heading up a hill and well that was it! I hired a bike and spent the rest of the day cycling around. I was minding my own business when a pretty drunk Lao man called me to join him and his friends underneath this house (his house was on stilts) to drink some Beer Lao and help him celebrate Lao new year which I had found out only a bit early when a group of kids decided to chuck a load of water over me as I cycled past. After about two or three beer Laos the language barrier was no longer a problem as ... read more