smmiller49

Well I'm back. I've spent the last few days slowly uploading pictures and videos to all the post. If you've been following along my journey please take a few moments to check out the previous posts as now relevant pictures are scattered about each posting. Click on the picture if you want to see it enlarged. Any videos are at displayed at the top of the entry. Most videos were taken in the second half of my trip though. Actually, I do have a final story about my trip too. The last afternoon in Bangkok I walked around looking for possible presents to give to family and friends. At one shop I found some shirts I thought would be nice gifts then bartered for a somewhat decent price for them. Between finding the right shirts and ... read more

Hey everybody. I had a long journey for the past few nights but I'm getting ahead of myself. Vang Vieng, wow. Just wow. Alright, so after my last post when I just arrived in Vang Vieng I had some pizza at a restaurant while laying down on a comfy patted mat while watching "Entourage" on a big screen t.v. Like I told you before, this place wasn't where you go for cultural experiences. It was raining hard at night when I finished so I couldn't do my usual walking-around-the-city-at-night-thing. When I got back to my groddy guesthouse, I wasn't feeling so well, was wet and just wanted to go to bed. The guesthouse owner and about six other older Lao guys were sitting around the entrance. While taking off my flip-flops (no shoes allowed in most ... read more

Hey everybody. Its been awhile so let me try to remember where I left off last. I think I was still in Phon Penh, Cambodia and getting ready to leave for Vietnam. Alright, so I got my ticket for Saigon, A.K.A. Ho Chi Minh City, and my visa into Vietnam through my guesthouse in Phom Penh. The bus picked me up in the morning outside my place and a six hour trip later I was dumped off in Saigon. It was roughly four in the afternoon on July 15th at this point. There's a couple block section off a street, Pham Ngu Lao, that parallels a park in Saigon filled guesthouses that is pretty much the backpacker hangout. The bus dropped us off right on that street. Now I knew what section of Pham Ngu Lao ... read more

Hello everybody, I've had quite a few interesting days since I last posted. Lets see, I think I was Koh Tao last time wrote. The sunburn I got snorkling only got worse. It was impossible to sleep the next on my back and I had what felt like shocks of electricity flying over my back the throughout the following few days. The thought of lugging a heavy backpack on it didn't seem like the best idea so I stayed in Koh Tao a little longer then expected. Most of the days were spent reading from my porch and if I did swim, I was like the fat kid at the pool, my shirt was always on. Everynight I'd head out to Lotus bar to watch the fire dancers. There were some characters at the bar too. ... read more

Hello everybody, I spent another night at the Paradise bungalows on Sunrise beach after writing last. I briefly mentioned before that Ko Pha Ngan is know for its Full Moon Parties which go on all night on the Sunrise beach. The last one was about two weeks ago. What I didn't know though was that the 26th is the night of a half moon, which also has a party. This party (more like rave actually) is only about a thousand people though and is in the middle of the jungle. There were people all over Sunrise offering taxis the party so I jumped on to go (its basically two benches on the back of a covered pickup). Right as I was leaving three Swedes jumped on as well. They had been on the islands for about ... read more