davegoesforth

Welcome to the first travel blog entry... and for those wondering about the title: Five grown boys, Thailand, and booze proves to be the secret recipe for gay jokes. My adventures started with a few friends from home, though all have returned as I write... I hope this serves me as a reminder of all my adventures and a little bit of news of what I have been up to for family and friends. Songkran in Bangkok Songkran is traditionally a week long, boozed up, water fighting, clay-smearing new year festival where most Thai people shut up shop and show the world how to party. This year, Australia sent in four "special people" forces. Water guns, cash in plastic bags and tuk tuk in hand we went to the streets and represented home as best we ... read more

Putting the luxurious beaches of Phi Phi behind us, we soared into Phnom Penh hoping for adventure in a country we knew very little about: Cambodia. Kev, Richard and Matt had a week with me and from then on I was going to be ?? alone. We started off by checking into the Faulty Towers of Combodian hotels - it was overpriced and well past its used by date. While that's not a fair description of Cambodia, we certainly had our fair share of overcharging and Richard had a homing beacon on food past it's used by date! Phnom Penh has all the trappings you come to expect of a poor asian city, men shouting at you to hop into some strange contraption they call a taxi, women in shops pointing at some shirt and promising ... read more