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• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Thailand, Quixotic Notions

  Lanta sunsets and lightning storms

  04.16.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Arrived at Ko Lanta yesterday afternoon and brought the storm with us: within a half-hour of arriving, the fastest thunderstorm we’d ever seen blew right over us and headed out to sea. It joined up with two other storms somewhere south of Ko Phi Phi, we figure. Nice dinner entertainment!

• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Thailand, Quixotic Notions

  How I learned to stop worrying and love the water bombs

  04.13.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Well, we arrived in Bangkok safe and sound and it’s been a wild last few days. Songkran did indeed begin in earnest the evening of the 12th, and it’s just been getting crazier and crazier. But in the end, it isn’t the drunken falang-fest, nor the massive unauthorized groping we’d feared. 99% of the people [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Thailand, Quixotic Notions

  Soggy Songkran

  04.09.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  We’re pretty dumb. Our clever little scheme to escape Vietnam by retreating to safe, familiar Thailand has totally backfired, as we forgot about a little thing called Songkran.
  Songkran is the Thai New Year, and is characterised by:

  everyone travelling everywhere at the same time (i.e. no transport or hotels)
  everyone throwing buckets of ice water [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Thailand, Quixotic Notions

  I still love Pai

  03.04.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Just a note that the Pai piece has been reposted with photos now. I’m frantically trying to post using the pseudo-modern computers here before shipping off to Cambodia tomorrow: will be too busy clambering around Angkor to write (though I guess we haven’t written much here either). Any posts on Malaysia will be backdated to [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Thailand, Quixotic Notions

  G.I. Jane

  02.10.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  While Nazma and I work really well together, almost four months of constant togetherness can take its toll. We, of course, have diverging interests: Nazma seems to like painting her toenails every so often, and I hate feet. So when I found a one-day tour unlike any of the hundreds of cookie-cutter “treks” in Chiang [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Thailand, Quixotic Notions

  Bummed: beach- and otherwise

  02.07.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  We had heard good things about Ko Lanta, and headed out by ferry to the island after two days in Ao Nang. This involved sitting on the deck of the boat for 2 hours, at the end of which I emerged, lobster-like, into the din of taxi touts. We arrived at our first place, a [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Thailand, Quixotic Notions

  Escape from the Germans

  02.04.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  We decided to forego the long train/bus journey from Chiang Mai to Phuket and just flew for cheap. Arrived at night and immediately was not impressed. While the rebuilding efforts of locals, international aid, backpacker et al. were laudable, Phuket was such a trap that we were glad we only had the two nights. Old [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Thailand, Quixotic Notions

  I Love Pai

  01.29.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  After a longer-than-anticipated stay in Chiang Mai, we hopped on a minivan to Pai. The treacherous mountain journey there, careering around hairpin turns, belied the peaceful hippie-ness of the town. We (or rather, Nazma) had our doubts about hitting a village reputedly overrun by yoga- and health-food-loving vegetarians. But soon we were totally sucked in, [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Thailand, Quixotic Notions

  Whatch Me Bounce My Melons…

  01.23.06 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  A couple of days into our stay in Chiang Mai, we resigned ourselves to the impracticality of venturing out to Burma as we had hoped. Turns out that the visa process has become even more difficult as of this January, and it’s both illegal (and extremely foolhardy) to cross overland and move into the country, [...]

• 2006 SE Asia, 2006 Thailand, Quixotic Notions

  See elephant dance!

  01.22.06 | Permalink | Comment?

  Another common thing to do here is to go on a “trek”. I’ll post about my crazy Thai-Army-survival trek later, but for Nazma’s sake, we opted for a sanitized, don’t-get-your-feet-wet tourist special. Note we got a discount; otherwise, we probably wouldn’t have done it. The tour-guide even pulled us aside and told us not to [...]

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