And it goes a little something like this…

16 – 20 December 2009
After a night train, a 2hr wait at 5am in a small city (we had savoury food with chilli for breakfast at the market) and another train, we got to Kanchanaburi, which is 200kms west of Bangkok, at around midday.

We ended up hiring two normal scooters (I wanted to get manual/motorbike, [...]

3 – 15 December 2009
I am writing this on a train to Kanchanaburi, it’s 9.30am. Rafeena and I have been travelling for nearly 24hours, we left Ko Pha-Ngan yesterday at midday on a ferry, caught a bus to the train station then a night train to a station before Bangkok.

We were on Ko Pha-Ngan for [...]

30 November to 2 December
Or two.
I arrived back in Bangkok at 6pm, and Bazz (on a stopover for 20hours) was due to arrive at 6.30pm and my friend/housemate Rafeena from Fremantle at 7pm. What timing!
I’ll be travelling with Raf for the next 6 weeks. First 3 weeks in southern Thailand, then 3 weeks in Laos, [...]

20 to 28 November 2009
The doctor in Phnom Penh confirmed that I had Dengue Fever (I must have caught it from mosquitoes in Thailand, near the Burmese border). But despite it now being 9 days I’ve been sick (including fever, headache, rash, vomitting once), it’s a mild case. Dengue Fever is often called breakbone fever, [...]

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 [...]