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Hippyland, Thailand

Posted in SE Asia, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on April 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »

If you’re wondering where all the hippies went after Jerry Garcia died, I found them here in Pai, Thailand.
Well, that’s a little unfair. Marjan (the Dutch woman I met in Chiang Mai) and I did, after all, *just* get here after a hot, cramped, torturous, and lovely 4-hour bus ride from Chiang Mai. So before [...]

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Waterworld

Posted in SE Asia, Uncategorized, tagged , , on April 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Greetings from Chiang Mai, where I spent the last 10 hours soaking, dripping wet.
When they said that people were crazy about Songkran here, they weren’t kidding. I arrived on the overnight train from Bangkok at around 8 am. I checked into a guest house and went for a wander. People were out in droves, setting [...]

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Bangkok is hot, loud and dirty

Posted in SE Asia, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on April 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I arrived at the Suk 11 (heh heh) hostel in Bangkok at 2:30 am…early Thursday, I guess it was. It’s a quiet, teak, traditional-looking place tucked away down an alley next to a 7-11. The sleepy security guard had me register, wordlessly handed me a bottle of water, and pointed up a steep staircase. In [...]

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