I thought you enjoy a look in Loas Bus. I took this one from Dong Det to Paske. Yes, I have my shots.
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Since I leave Loas in two days I decided come up with this fun list. sorry for the long period between post. Northern Loas either has no internet or very slow internet, so i kept off it.
You know that you are in Loas when....
1. Few dollars is alot of money! "I do not know it's a whole dollar more, pretty expensive"
2. There are only 2 ATM's for the whole country.
3. All buses are handme down korean and have no working speedometer. "It's better to not know; trust me!"
4. The aisle of the bus or not for walking but sitting and storing supplies.
5. It not bus trip until a local starts thorwing up.
6. The Laundry, toilet, shower and drinking water all come from and are done in the Mekong river with in few meters of each other. "If you are luck."
7. Water in the sink just dumps on the floor; even in nice hotels. Pluming what is that for?
8. If your bus or boat only breaks down once you feel luck.
9. By the end day you have more small plastic bags than you know what to do with. Buy pop get bag, buy food get a bag. "Do want a bag for those bags there, sir?"
10. "No running water; check, No electricity until dark; check, manaully smashing rice the old school way; check. Using the Cellphone at same time; Check!!
You know that you are in Loas when....
1. Few dollars is alot of money! "I do not know it's a whole dollar more, pretty expensive"
2. There are only 2 ATM's for the whole country.
3. All buses are handme down korean and have no working speedometer. "It's better to not know; trust me!"
4. The aisle of the bus or not for walking but sitting and storing supplies.
5. It not bus trip until a local starts thorwing up.
6. The Laundry, toilet, shower and drinking water all come from and are done in the Mekong river with in few meters of each other. "If you are luck."
7. Water in the sink just dumps on the floor; even in nice hotels. Pluming what is that for?
8. If your bus or boat only breaks down once you feel luck.
9. By the end day you have more small plastic bags than you know what to do with. Buy pop get bag, buy food get a bag. "Do want a bag for those bags there, sir?"
10. "No running water; check, No electricity until dark; check, manaully smashing rice the old school way; check. Using the Cellphone at same time; Check!!
Monday, January 29, 2007
VAng Vien, Loas eat your heart out. Yes, one of those thatch bunglows is mine. These cliffs go straight up, yet trees are sprouting out of them it's crazy.
Give you an idea of dinner all that salad was used as plate and food and we had three fish between all of us.
The dinner party. The Loa man is our Tuk Tuk Driver.
Once in a while you just get lucky when you are traveling. I spent three days in Vien VAng, a buetiful mountain town in N. Loas. Which is know for it sheer granite cliffs, calm River and alots of cool caves and also town that has bar that play Friends and simpson all day long; kind of weird. For my rock climbing friends this place is must! You could climb so many first acesents in few days it make your head hurt.
Back to point of this story. I end up hanging out with a Brit (alex) that lives in Thailnad and is fluent in Loa and Thai and has a Lao girlfriend. We went to market to get some real Loa food and ended up befriending some loa women. They quickly asked us come and have dinner with them in their village. Which sounded like great experience; I figured that village was few kilameter away, no big deal. They bought whole bunch vetagibles and few still alive fish and 2 kilos of noodles and grabbed a tuktuk (3 wheel taxi) and we were off and we kept going and going 24kilmeter out we stop at small buetiful town in middle of no where. We bribed the tuk tuk drive to stay so we could go back with free dinner and beer. I got check out their house and then we went and made dinner on the river.
The way we ate the food was taking some of the lettuce or cabbage and putting some noddles in it then some fish, then some more veges and finally some sweet hot sauce and wrap and eat. It was great food and fun although most the time I had no clue what was going on, but we all laughted and laughted and held and played with the three babies that some women had. After dinner we went back to their place were they insisted we stay the night, which been fine with me, but other couple needed get back and we told tuk tuk driver that we go back with him so off we went. It quite a day.
The last few days I been in launge Paungban a beutiful french town in the mid-North. I met two travelin partners Mark and Tao and have hung out with them exploring this town and all it's wats. They alot fun and tommorrow all three of us are taking a boat up the Mekong River for day long boat trip two see the jungle and float the river. Then up to national park to do some trecking and then I will started heading towards Vietnam.
Back to point of this story. I end up hanging out with a Brit (alex) that lives in Thailnad and is fluent in Loa and Thai and has a Lao girlfriend. We went to market to get some real Loa food and ended up befriending some loa women. They quickly asked us come and have dinner with them in their village. Which sounded like great experience; I figured that village was few kilameter away, no big deal. They bought whole bunch vetagibles and few still alive fish and 2 kilos of noodles and grabbed a tuktuk (3 wheel taxi) and we were off and we kept going and going 24kilmeter out we stop at small buetiful town in middle of no where. We bribed the tuk tuk drive to stay so we could go back with free dinner and beer. I got check out their house and then we went and made dinner on the river.
The way we ate the food was taking some of the lettuce or cabbage and putting some noddles in it then some fish, then some more veges and finally some sweet hot sauce and wrap and eat. It was great food and fun although most the time I had no clue what was going on, but we all laughted and laughted and held and played with the three babies that some women had. After dinner we went back to their place were they insisted we stay the night, which been fine with me, but other couple needed get back and we told tuk tuk driver that we go back with him so off we went. It quite a day.
The last few days I been in launge Paungban a beutiful french town in the mid-North. I met two travelin partners Mark and Tao and have hung out with them exploring this town and all it's wats. They alot fun and tommorrow all three of us are taking a boat up the Mekong River for day long boat trip two see the jungle and float the river. Then up to national park to do some trecking and then I will started heading towards Vietnam.
Friday, January 19, 2007
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How is it going from Paske, Loa. I just got back from place called 4000 islands. These islands are made from the Mekkomg river and sits right in betweeen thai, camboadia and Vietnam. Ｉ ｓｐｅｎｔ ｔｈｅ ｌａｓｔ ｆｏｕｒ ｄａｙｓ ｊｕｓｔ ｈａｎｇｉｎｇ ｏｕｔ ａｎｄ ｃｈｅｃｋｉｎｇ ｏｕｔ ｗａｔｅｒ ｆａｌｌｓ ａｎｄ ｓｗｉｍｍｉｎｇ ｉｎ ｐａｒｉｄａｓｅ． Ｔｈｅ ｐｌａｃｅ ｗａｓ ｄｉｒｔ ｃｈｅａｐ． Ｉｈａｄ ｍｙ ｏｗｎ ｂｕｎｇｌｏｗ ｆｏｒ ＄１ ｏｎ ｔｈｅ ｗａｔｅｒ． Ｉｔ ｐｒｅｔｔｙ ｗｅｉｒｄ ｔｏ ｔｈｉｎｋ ｔｈａｔ ｊｕｓｔ ３０ｉｓｈ ｙｅａｒｓ ａｇｏ ｗｅ ｗｅｒｅ ｉｎ ｕｎｏｆｆｉｃａｌ ｗａｒ ｗｉｔｈ ｔｈｉｓ ｐｌａｃｅ． Ｉｔ’ｓ ｐｒｅｔｔｙ ｈｅｒｅ ｉｎ ｔｈｅ Ｓｏｕｔｈ， ｂｕｔ ｔｏｌｄ ｔｈａｔ Ｎｏｒｔｈ ｉｓ ｂｒｅａｔｈ ｔａｋｉｎｇ．
Ｂｅｆｏｒｅ Ｉ ｌｅｆｔ Ｖｉｅｔｉｅｎｅ Ｉ ａｐｐｌｉｅｄ ｆｏｒ ｍｙ ｖｉｓａ ｆｏｒ ｖｉｅｔｎａｍ． Ｗｈｉｃｈ ｓｔｒａｎｇｅｌｙ ｃｏｓｔ ＄１５ ｍｏｒｅ ｔｈａｎ ｒｅｓｔ ｏｆ ｔｈｅ Ｖｉｅｔｎａｍ ｅｍｂａｓｓｙ ｉｎ ｔｈｅ ｗｏｒｌｄ， ｂｕｔ ｔｈａｔ ｔｈｅ ｇａｍｅ Ｉ ｇｕｅｓｓ．
Ｏｈ ｔｈｅ ｔｗｏ ｐｉｃｔｕｒｅｓ ａｒｅ ｍｅ ａｔ ｗａｔｅｒ ｆａｌｌ ａｎｄ ｃｏｏｌ ｓｕｎｓｅｔ ｏｎ ｔｈｅ ｉｓｌａｎｄ．
How is it going from Paske, Loa. I just got back from place called 4000 islands. These islands are made from the Mekkomg river and sits right in betweeen thai, camboadia and Vietnam. Ｉ ｓｐｅｎｔ ｔｈｅ ｌａｓｔ ｆｏｕｒ ｄａｙｓ ｊｕｓｔ ｈａｎｇｉｎｇ ｏｕｔ ａｎｄ ｃｈｅｃｋｉｎｇ ｏｕｔ ｗａｔｅｒ ｆａｌｌｓ ａｎｄ ｓｗｉｍｍｉｎｇ ｉｎ ｐａｒｉｄａｓｅ． Ｔｈｅ ｐｌａｃｅ ｗａｓ ｄｉｒｔ ｃｈｅａｐ． Ｉｈａｄ ｍｙ ｏｗｎ ｂｕｎｇｌｏｗ ｆｏｒ ＄１ ｏｎ ｔｈｅ ｗａｔｅｒ． Ｉｔ ｐｒｅｔｔｙ ｗｅｉｒｄ ｔｏ ｔｈｉｎｋ ｔｈａｔ ｊｕｓｔ ３０ｉｓｈ ｙｅａｒｓ ａｇｏ ｗｅ ｗｅｒｅ ｉｎ ｕｎｏｆｆｉｃａｌ ｗａｒ ｗｉｔｈ ｔｈｉｓ ｐｌａｃｅ． Ｉｔ’ｓ ｐｒｅｔｔｙ ｈｅｒｅ ｉｎ ｔｈｅ Ｓｏｕｔｈ， ｂｕｔ ｔｏｌｄ ｔｈａｔ Ｎｏｒｔｈ ｉｓ ｂｒｅａｔｈ ｔａｋｉｎｇ．
Ｂｅｆｏｒｅ Ｉ ｌｅｆｔ Ｖｉｅｔｉｅｎｅ Ｉ ａｐｐｌｉｅｄ ｆｏｒ ｍｙ ｖｉｓａ ｆｏｒ ｖｉｅｔｎａｍ． Ｗｈｉｃｈ ｓｔｒａｎｇｅｌｙ ｃｏｓｔ ＄１５ ｍｏｒｅ ｔｈａｎ ｒｅｓｔ ｏｆ ｔｈｅ Ｖｉｅｔｎａｍ ｅｍｂａｓｓｙ ｉｎ ｔｈｅ ｗｏｒｌｄ， ｂｕｔ ｔｈａｔ ｔｈｅ ｇａｍｅ Ｉ ｇｕｅｓｓ．
Ｏｈ ｔｈｅ ｔｗｏ ｐｉｃｔｕｒｅｓ ａｒｅ ｍｅ ａｔ ｗａｔｅｒ ｆａｌｌ ａｎｄ ｃｏｏｌ ｓｕｎｓｅｔ ｏｎ ｔｈｅ ｉｓｌａｎｄ．
Saturday, January 13, 2007
HELLO FROM LOAS
I crossed the boarder to loas yesterday (saturday/friday your time). The capital city is pretty sleepy, but the river that runs through it is buetiful. It can be pretty cheap here. The night before in Thailand I stay in a real dive. Watch the movie "The Beach" the place he stays first night was way nice than place I stayed. I did not care at first because I was really tired from hiking out from the national park. After while I learned I was staying in psuedo-brothel. Prostutes and their clients came in and out all night log;nice! You got to love the authentic sleezy feel. My bed did not have a mattress, I learned, but instead was made up of couch cushions; I think. So I decided to splurge alittle and get a nicer room in Loas $7, but it was nice and clean.
Now I am in a hostel for 18,000 loas currency or about $1.80.
Tommorrow I planning go to Vietnam embassy and work on getting a visa and possible start heading south for twoish weeks. Then back to capital to get my passport and visa then up North two-ish days then Vietnam. That the plan, which probably will change tommorrow. That what you come to learn plans are tentive.
I crossed the boarder to loas yesterday (saturday/friday your time). The capital city is pretty sleepy, but the river that runs through it is buetiful. It can be pretty cheap here. The night before in Thailand I stay in a real dive. Watch the movie "The Beach" the place he stays first night was way nice than place I stayed. I did not care at first because I was really tired from hiking out from the national park. After while I learned I was staying in psuedo-brothel. Prostutes and their clients came in and out all night log;nice! You got to love the authentic sleezy feel. My bed did not have a mattress, I learned, but instead was made up of couch cushions; I think. So I decided to splurge alittle and get a nicer room in Loas $7, but it was nice and clean.
Now I am in a hostel for 18,000 loas currency or about $1.80.
Tommorrow I planning go to Vietnam embassy and work on getting a visa and possible start heading south for twoish weeks. Then back to capital to get my passport and visa then up North two-ish days then Vietnam. That the plan, which probably will change tommorrow. That what you come to learn plans are tentive.
Sunday, January 07, 2007
Some kids up in the jungle. just hanging out. they started off very shy and ended up running after me as I left. I almost crashed going up the steepest rutted out and loose rock road (for lack better word) I been on, to get to this village.
More ruins in sukhothai. I like this picture except for the tourist in it, but maybe when I get back someone can show me how to erase him in photo shop!
Tonight I sat in one safest places in Thailand. Let me explain....... So yesterday I went to buy some meat on a stick; it best way to explain this food they sell on the street. When I bought my food one of the guys motioned to take a seat and we hung out for a bit. The man knew a small amount of english and was very hospitable so sat and talked and learned that he was a police officer here in Sukhothai; well I pretty sure that what he was saying. After a while I went back to my guest house and slept. Tonight I found myself looking for one last bit to eat and long behold I walked by the same meat on a stick place. So once again the man insisted that take a seat and have a beer with him. So there we sat drinking beer and listening to the radio of his truck. So through drawing on paper to make up for my lack of thai and his lack of english we held a good broken conversation. Which I learned that he is a sergeant in the local police and work as a plain clothes detective. He also carries a glock 9mm hand gun which I go to check out. As the night went along all his co-workers showed up and had few drinks with me. So really, I sat on the street in Thailand surrounded by a lot of cops trying talk about/ check out women, how much we make, rent, guns and life in general. At one point I just had to laugh at how unique this situation was. The younger guys wanted to take me clubbing and night out on the town. Which would have been fun, but I am pretty sure they wanted to take me to brothel; so I declined. Luckily my guest house has internet so jumped on to share this moment with you.
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Classsic buddist temple. Its the holiday season hear too. So there are Thai tourist all over the place.
These are fishing boat anchored off the beaches of Koa sumi, because of the monsoon creating 2 to 3 meter waves. The King order all boats in the area anchored for 3 full days. This was taken Nov. 21stish
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Christmas Eve
I wanted to share with you guys how cool Christmas eve was for me. Kim meeker and I had a tradition Western Christmas dinner at the Youth Pastors house and then went to late candle light service. i had lost my voice the day before with a bad cold so i could hardly speak let along sing during the service, which in the end was cool blessing. The service started with everyone sharing how to say "Merry Christmas" in their native tongue; there must have been at least 10 languages repersented. Then all together we started to sing all the normal christmas songs together. here is the cool prt: After the first verse or so of every song everryone started to sing in their own language and not being able to sing myself I able to hear it clerly. So literally around me was 4 to 5 different languages singing same song. It was really powerful to see how diverse the body of christ actually is and see it for atleast one night function as one. There we all were looking and sounding differently, but united as one in our belief in Christ. yep, God took good care of me over the holiday. hope all of you are well.
I wanted to share with you guys how cool Christmas eve was for me. Kim meeker and I had a tradition Western Christmas dinner at the Youth Pastors house and then went to late candle light service. i had lost my voice the day before with a bad cold so i could hardly speak let along sing during the service, which in the end was cool blessing. The service started with everyone sharing how to say "Merry Christmas" in their native tongue; there must have been at least 10 languages repersented. Then all together we started to sing all the normal christmas songs together. here is the cool prt: After the first verse or so of every song everryone started to sing in their own language and not being able to sing myself I able to hear it clerly. So literally around me was 4 to 5 different languages singing same song. It was really powerful to see how diverse the body of christ actually is and see it for atleast one night function as one. There we all were looking and sounding differently, but united as one in our belief in Christ. yep, God took good care of me over the holiday. hope all of you are well.
Thai hair cut
So I finally got my hair cut in Thailand, but what a cultural experience. My barbar was a nice guy who spoke quasi-english named something on the lines of "Shashoo" which he told me ment "young one". As the hair cut went along both of us got nervous. We definalely were miss understanding each other. At first he made me a dome like hair cut which made me look like a I was wearing a astronots helmet. Then inorder to take the roundness out of it we both realized that my hair cut was starting to get pretty short and make all the worst he kept on using thinning clippers for some reason on top. We both started to wonder if i was going to end up bald by the end of the experience. Thankfully both of us were able to laugh about whole thing as we sweated out the ordeal. In the end it came out pretty good; a little shorter than normal, yet not bald. On coolest things is he used a razor blade to clean up and shape my sideburns. I am not sure why i did not get razor burn from it because it hurt like hell, but in the end i looked pretty good and had a fun cultural experience. i will try to put a picture up of my hair in next few days, but this internet that I am using is way too slow.
So I finally got my hair cut in Thailand, but what a cultural experience. My barbar was a nice guy who spoke quasi-english named something on the lines of "Shashoo" which he told me ment "young one". As the hair cut went along both of us got nervous. We definalely were miss understanding each other. At first he made me a dome like hair cut which made me look like a I was wearing a astronots helmet. Then inorder to take the roundness out of it we both realized that my hair cut was starting to get pretty short and make all the worst he kept on using thinning clippers for some reason on top. We both started to wonder if i was going to end up bald by the end of the experience. Thankfully both of us were able to laugh about whole thing as we sweated out the ordeal. In the end it came out pretty good; a little shorter than normal, yet not bald. On coolest things is he used a razor blade to clean up and shape my sideburns. I am not sure why i did not get razor burn from it because it hurt like hell, but in the end i looked pretty good and had a fun cultural experience. i will try to put a picture up of my hair in next few days, but this internet that I am using is way too slow.
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
The truth behind long term travel
i figure most guys might wonder what it like for me to travel for a long time; so decide I blog about it.
Long term travel is mind blowing fun and maybe not so surprising hard and discouraging at times. You have mornings; like this one for me, where you wake up and wonder is worth it to travel being so far from friends, family and comfort of home. i know that this is not something unique to me because alot of other travelors who been out for long time tell me that they also have these feeling now and then.
i have learned that these days are best spent doing nothing in peticular. Stay at same place, splurge on something, read few e-mail from friends and family from home, listen to the i-pod, drink alot of coffee and just be and most importanly for me to have a long QT with the Big Guy. Or today. Watch seinfield on Kim's laptop and doing little blogin. I find it funny that most time during these days at some point I get blown away at how sweet it is to be out here following one of my dreams.
And it is fun traveling, no lie. Eatin exotic food, meeting some most adventures and free spirited people dailly and seeing and experiencing things that only seen on the travel channel. So at no moment feel bad for me in every adventure there is adversity and I feel privialedge that I have such great friends and family and life back home that i get to miss them every once in a while.
One of the great things of being on begining of year of travel is time does not really matter. A week in one place might as well be a day. So this way I never feel like I got to run around to see everything at once and I like this because it breeds spontonousness (is that a word?). So most morning you wake up and move somewhere you found that was cheaper and better than where you were at or go do something that most likely some one the day before told you was sweet. At all times through the day you make mental notes of what is cool to do in town and where people are saying it fun to be or you should go. Fellow Backpackers advice is crutual since they travel and function on the same budget, know the new scams that locals are playing and are always looking for adventure. Yet at the same time i learned that you must find locals and the off the beaten path otherewise you are always around the backpacker crowd and never experience the true side of the country.
Well i hope this gives little insight. Thanks for your guys comments and I will try throw up some pics. i left my camera cable in Bankok so might be a while.
i figure most guys might wonder what it like for me to travel for a long time; so decide I blog about it.
Long term travel is mind blowing fun and maybe not so surprising hard and discouraging at times. You have mornings; like this one for me, where you wake up and wonder is worth it to travel being so far from friends, family and comfort of home. i know that this is not something unique to me because alot of other travelors who been out for long time tell me that they also have these feeling now and then.
i have learned that these days are best spent doing nothing in peticular. Stay at same place, splurge on something, read few e-mail from friends and family from home, listen to the i-pod, drink alot of coffee and just be and most importanly for me to have a long QT with the Big Guy. Or today. Watch seinfield on Kim's laptop and doing little blogin. I find it funny that most time during these days at some point I get blown away at how sweet it is to be out here following one of my dreams.
And it is fun traveling, no lie. Eatin exotic food, meeting some most adventures and free spirited people dailly and seeing and experiencing things that only seen on the travel channel. So at no moment feel bad for me in every adventure there is adversity and I feel privialedge that I have such great friends and family and life back home that i get to miss them every once in a while.
One of the great things of being on begining of year of travel is time does not really matter. A week in one place might as well be a day. So this way I never feel like I got to run around to see everything at once and I like this because it breeds spontonousness (is that a word?). So most morning you wake up and move somewhere you found that was cheaper and better than where you were at or go do something that most likely some one the day before told you was sweet. At all times through the day you make mental notes of what is cool to do in town and where people are saying it fun to be or you should go. Fellow Backpackers advice is crutual since they travel and function on the same budget, know the new scams that locals are playing and are always looking for adventure. Yet at the same time i learned that you must find locals and the off the beaten path otherewise you are always around the backpacker crowd and never experience the true side of the country.
Well i hope this gives little insight. Thanks for your guys comments and I will try throw up some pics. i left my camera cable in Bankok so might be a while.
Let me catch you guys up on where I am at. Right now I am on island in S. thailand called Ko samui. It pretty cool place and yes Thailand is a cheap place to travel. Semi-expensive rooms are around $10 night and that your own place and cheaper place are anything from 3ish to 5 dollars. Food can be around 50cents to good meal 3or 5 bucks. Round trip bus and ferrie cost about $50 and it's long way.
My birthday was nice, but I was very tired from the long bus trip and the day of travel the day before. So I did not go out big or anything. but I did get to enjoy sitting at thatch roof bar on the rocks of the beach watching the sun go down and enjoying the sound of ocean as i sipped on some suds. It was nice be able to spend it with Kim meeker a freind that has known me for a while.
Oh few stories:
Right now there is a monsoon off the coast making the S. coastal water quite wavy. So the ferry to the island was a bumpy ride with swells of 2 to 3 meters or 6 to 9 feet. People were puking all over the place; not exactly what we all thought it be like. It so brutal out there that the boat breaking a twisting on the waves broke quite a few of the ferries windows. Little adventure; I guess. No, I was not one of the people puking, but I know from experience I have good sea legs and I still did not feel that great.
Also, Kim and I drove motorcycles/more like a scooter all yesterday. So much fun! and cheap. With rental and gas it cost 200bat or 6ish dollars. Got to love it for 12hrs of fun.
Hope everyone has great x-mas!
My birthday was nice, but I was very tired from the long bus trip and the day of travel the day before. So I did not go out big or anything. but I did get to enjoy sitting at thatch roof bar on the rocks of the beach watching the sun go down and enjoying the sound of ocean as i sipped on some suds. It was nice be able to spend it with Kim meeker a freind that has known me for a while.
Oh few stories:
Right now there is a monsoon off the coast making the S. coastal water quite wavy. So the ferry to the island was a bumpy ride with swells of 2 to 3 meters or 6 to 9 feet. People were puking all over the place; not exactly what we all thought it be like. It so brutal out there that the boat breaking a twisting on the waves broke quite a few of the ferries windows. Little adventure; I guess. No, I was not one of the people puking, but I know from experience I have good sea legs and I still did not feel that great.
Also, Kim and I drove motorcycles/more like a scooter all yesterday. So much fun! and cheap. With rental and gas it cost 200bat or 6ish dollars. Got to love it for 12hrs of fun.
Hope everyone has great x-mas!
Friday, December 15, 2006
Self portrait of me on the beach in NZ. I am getting skinner by the day and still have not cut my hair. I will either cut in Thailand or go for dreadlocks. What do you think : - )
I must say I have a bit of nostalga going on realizing this my last full day in NZ, but I am ready take off to thailand and start gorging myself on cheap food. No mom i am not starving myself here, but all the walking around, builds quite the appetite and eating huge bowl of porach and bread and eggs for Breakfast, 4 to 5 sandwiches for lunch and massive dinner filled with as much protein as possible and 4 to 6 cups of coffee all adds up!
Looking back on NZ i have to say my favorite moments all came spontanously. Whether it night out with the national womens swedish netball team or being picked up by NZ Hearld journals or all those wonderful nights in the backcountry and all the wonderful people who i met and became friends with, whether we hung out for only a day or week. Yep, I have to come back agian.
Tommorrow off to see kim meeker in Thailand. It be great to see someone I know and have a friend for the holidays.
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Well I am in Auckland now and have 3 short days until I head to Thailand. I been amazed that the Beaches up North are so Tropical and Beutiful and yet the water is still cold. I must admit that I wish I had stay another few days in the South. The north is nice, but the south and the mountains are more my style. I wish I could make it up to the Bay of Island, but looks like I am going to miss it this trip.
It pretty crazy to realize that I am now over a month travel and i still have a 11 months plus to go.
One of the coolest hitches I got was I got picked up by a van of high school Mari kids on a field trip. I got to learn a little Mari and alot about their culture and quiz them on America; alot of fun a true cultural experiece. I also been amazed by the continual hostipitality of the kiwi's. Today my hitch insited to pay for my lunch and coffee. Talk about nice people!
It pretty crazy to realize that I am now over a month travel and i still have a 11 months plus to go.
One of the coolest hitches I got was I got picked up by a van of high school Mari kids on a field trip. I got to learn a little Mari and alot about their culture and quiz them on America; alot of fun a true cultural experiece. I also been amazed by the continual hostipitality of the kiwi's. Today my hitch insited to pay for my lunch and coffee. Talk about nice people!
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