And it goes a little something like this…

I haven’t talked much about the people I’ve met while travelling, but many have become friends (and not just facebook friends!).
Just earlier I caught up with Phoebe from England who I met in northern Thailand. Last night I caught up with Bryce from NZ who I also met there.
This morning I visited S-21 and the [...]

I’m not worried about my health, but I’m curious, and getting annoyed that it is messing up my plans. I’ve had to miss out on seeing Bokor National Park, it’s views and abandoned buildings and walking around the old hotel pretending I’m in The Shining. And I’ve only got another two days before I leave [...]

I’ve just (an hour ago) started reading ‘Unweaving the Rainbow’, by Richard Dawkins. It’s about science making life amazing, showing life is amazing and worthwhile. Just because there is no longer a mystery behind the rainbow, thanks to Newton, does not make it boring and sad.
I have a feeling I should have read things by [...]

17 to 19 November 2009
Day 1 of exploring Angkor was done in a tuk-tuk with four german boys, spanning the afternoon seeing the main sites (Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom and Ta Prohm).
Day 2 I only hired myself a motorbike with driver at nearly 4pm and was back at 6pm, having seen the further afield Banteay [...]

Conversation while biking around Angkor, in an area not many bikes get to:
“Are you alone?”
“Yes.”
“No boyfriend?”
“No.”
“Are you not scared by yourself?”
“Ehh, no!”
And I’m not scared. Though generally I don’t go into dark quiet alleyways by myself in the middle of the night, so that helps. (and when I do, I might be a little bit [...]

“$20 and 100baht”. “No, $20″. “$20 and 100baht”. “No, $20, look, it says up there $20″. “No, embassy is $20, here it’s $20 and 100baht”. “I don’t have baht, here, $20″. “And 100baht”. “Ok, have 20baht”. “No, 100baht”. Sigh. I hand the corrupt Cambodian policeman on the border 100baht, on top of the US$20 visa [...]

Saturday night. Khao San Road, Bangkok. Street is full of bars and clubs, and it continues until at least 3am, locals and farang (westerners of european descent).
At 6pm I walk over to Wat Mahadhatu, a buddhist temple, to learn about buddhism and meditation. Interesting, good night. Might talk about it more another time.
So, Bangkok. I’m [...]

The plan was to get a bus from Mae Sot to Bangkok at around 8am, arriving there at around 4pm. Fail. I got there at 11pm. Thai time… mine and the bus driver’s.
I did manage to get up early, but then did some work, got distracted online, had a lovely brunch of Burmese tea leaf [...]

I’m in Bangkok at the moment, but let’s back track to Um Phang. A very remote town on the Burmese border, 150km south of Mae Sot, but that trip takes 5 to 7 hours. South there is the national park and some adjoining ones, meaning you have to go back to Mae Sot to leave, [...]

I haz it.
For life. For food. For music. For freedom. For a very amicable divorce. For not having to show an identity card at police controls on the Burmese/Thai border.
For friends, old and new, and family.
For the internet and it’s many applications for being able to share this journey with you all, and I’m not [...]