Two Americans eating Mexican food and pasta at an English pub in Thailand.

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This how life goes here in Phuket. I only have 3 weeks left here and all I can say is time flys when your having fun. Nothing much as really changed here except that I am getting some decent training and I am finally starting to unwind from all the craziness. I have my routines. I train. I sleep. I take night cruises on my motorbike to places I have yet explored. Thailand is beautiful. I could easily use another 6 months here doing nothing. Last night I went on a night cruise with two Icelanders who had never seen lightening before. We went down to Rawai and grabbed a beer and watched the lightening light up the Adaman sea and surrounding islands. It has to be one of my favorite experiences here in Thailand. However, Phuket is pricey I think I will be moving on from this place.
There have been a couple of employment opportunities here. Some are concrete. Some are pure speculation. Let’s just say the next few weeks will be very telling.
While I have no grand pictures to post I thought I should put some up of the people I have met and hung around with this last few weeks. They are all great people that made time here very fun.
Finally, I have set up a facebook account. It is at www.facebook.com . A lot of the people from my camp have accounts and I have found it to be a very fun and easy way to stay in touch with everyone. This is of course in addition to my skype account and my website here. I have become such a geek. Anyways, take care everyone and I will give you calls when I get a chance.
Much love and thoughts
Erik

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Photos

A night out after the fights
Where else can some Icelanders, a couple of Canadians, and Scotsman share a decent drink?

Marco all decked out for the fight
Marco lost by decision but it was a hell of an entertaining fight

Josh
Josh is another Inosanto Kali nut. We have been dubbed the 'crazy knife-weilding Americans' but others in the camp. Brings a warm fuzzy to my heart.

No Explanation Availible at this Moment
No explantion with be given either....

an unwelcome guest
Try sleeping soundly with this beast making a home in your bathroom. We had an epic battle at 3 am. He lost by TKO. He was the size of my fist.

one of my better roomates
I named it Hannibal. It wiped out the bug population in my bathroom for about a week before moving on. I considered giving him a full time job.

Comments

[steve o]

nice
erik the viking love the pics so keep them coming. looks like you finally got your ass out of the oc? good job there. life here continues on. maybe i'll become a priest in the episcopal church? i'm looking for work in reno, finally, after 10 months of slacking in that dept. otherwise... call me. next time i'll know that random # is you. ss

[GoneWandering]

Steve you slacker
Yea steve you are such a slacker - grow up man! I am on Phi Phi Island right now recovering from a great day. It only started out with us stuck on aboat in a freakin giant rain storm being throw all around the deck. Some girls were crying and it was nuts. Moi? I was laughing my ass off. I think a couple of people thought I was crazy because I was laughing as I was throwing up overboard. I even did a Lt. Dan impression in the middle of the storm. The weather cleared and we had a great day. Pics and full story on my next post brother. Take care Erik