Tue 24 May 2005 My senses are dead from am all nighter for last minute preparations but the bodily feelings of excitement are palapable as I grab some comission free sterling travellers cheques from Barclays and sprint towards to the tube. I have said said my goodbyes to Tome, Nick and Nigel and am ready to leave London to embark on a first time trip to South East Asia. Don't you just love trave? I mean not travel in the sense of A to B but travel that involves a change of state; a chance to "seek out new life and new civilizations" to boldly go where every other lonely planet reader, businessman, aid worker, paedophile has gone before? I'm still in Heathrow and try to see the BAHT exchange rate at the Travelex shop. I
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