Back in the US and it has been quite an adjustment. I once thought that jetlag, much like back pain and technology being confusing was for weak minded whiners, who just needed to put a label on another reason to complain. I am finding this out more and more as I get older, but I was wrong. Jet lag is very much real and I have been unable to sleep except for small 4 hour chunks at a time. I hope getting on another jet to Tucson will counteract this curse, or Sunday's daylight savings will be the magical cure. Until then, if you need someone to talk to at 4 am, I am most likely awake trying to catch up on True Detective. (Its pretty good, but not Wire good)
As promised, here is a photo blog entry of everything that I can share from Thailand. The rest will appear roughly a few months later when I release my UNcut Thai blog entry for $4.99. (Its not worth nor does it exist.)
My first Asian meal. .27 cents American
We will be revisiting this place later....the tigers are NOT drugged up
So in the land of $5 cab rides I still walked over 5 miles from the middle of Phuket to the beach
Essentially the "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign of Thailand
At $2 per, these babies go down easy, pretty much how I gained the weight I lost in Australia back
That girl holding the gun is about 6.......makes me want to shoot some guns
Lemur with laser eyes
The TV screen in Phuket where I watched the greatest football game of all time
$9 a night to sleep in a pod, I called it home for about 13 days and loved them all.
My two favorites
Random Thai Island I saw on my way to another random Thai island
More random island action
Part of the island where they filmed the movie "The Beach"
Swimming and Snorkeling and Stuff
They charge you money just to walk on to the island, sneaky
Ko Phi Phi Island, I think that means "Where tourists come to be set on fire" You will get it in the next few photos/videos
Boats, boats, boats
Old school travel
New school
My $12 a night accommodation, right on the beach
A shot of Ko Phi Phi at night during low tide
The whole shot all at once
Watched this for hours, people jumping until the fire eventually gets them
Loved these, hypnotizing
People jump through the ring of fire, seemed pretty straight forward until people dove into it instead of through it. Again, watched for hours
A local showing people how it is supposed to be done, jump till the fire goes out
Same song, same rope, but a tourist, wonder what is going to happen..................
Most amazing thing I might have ever seen in person, watch it twice
Second hotel in paradise, this one was poolside
Krabbi- about the most exciting thing we saw there. Indiana Jones Elephant
Next time you need Ice, Oats and souvenirs, one stop shopping
Pretty cool traffic lights in Krabbi, the timer tells you long you have until 35 Thai cars and scooters all run a solid red
Obligatory scenery shot
Same shot, plus me, per usual I look pissed off
A nice little temple, these pop up all over the place
Picture #2
The inside of the Temple
They have these all over the place, usually riddled with strawberry soda and water, no one could tell me why
This goose was pissed off
Lil Brit all tucked out on the bus to Koh Samui- Bus $8 for a four hour ride
The beach, with a nice cold Chaing, Thailand's finest $1 beer
The beach, also with used needles, so don't walk around barefoot
This was the thing that supposedly converts the shower water to hot, 10 days with only cold showers will change a person
This is the face you make when you see what he and you are just about to see
That was the Brittney Spears impersonator, nice package
Just four dudes chilling after the show.....4 dudes
The tongue says it all
The site of the Full Moon Party, Koh Phangan
A mirror pic in infinity, since my room was covered in mirrors, no pants either
Can't tell what those are, dragons, duh, gotta get tatt'd up before the big party
May look funky but the kid got a lot of compliments on the joker brows
This was insanely hard to get off, not worth it no matter how much I love Django
The Issaquah posse in full effect, Wes must have been taking the picture. That guy in the orange has silver hair with sparkles in it
This is used in lieu of toilet paper in the bathroom.......for exactly what you think. Nasty!
Mid Spray
Muay Thai fights
No Americans were fighting so we rooted for Vlad the Russian face smasher
This got chopped up, but ended up being better that way. This was what we saw after Vlad smashed the other fighter in the face, causing him to be dragged off in a stretcher.
Just a snippet of a fight. They play that crazy background music the whole time
Finally got Mykel to eat some street food. For $3 this man will make all US Thai test like crap for the rest of your life. It is a good and bad thing that we had so much of it.
Wes and his $14 bowl of ice cream, even in the land of cheap everything, leave it to Wes to get ripped off!!!
The Koh Samui airport, free internet, free food, and a whole lot of comfort
Our meal on Bangkok Air
And what I thought of it
This is to show that these tigers are up and moving. Nice to get them all riled up before we got in the cage
Laying with one of the mighty beasts, cautiously happy
Change in facial expression after the tiger took a swing at me
Tiger back to happy, I go back to happy. We have a lot more of these, but they are on about 4 different cameras and its hard to consolidate
This is where the magic happens, we spent hours in here bartering and trying on black market Nike's, talked them down to about $28 a pair for the Air Max style
So many shoes, one pair I was a size 11.5 and the other a 13, so you know they are good.
Just took a shot, focusing
Not happy
They guy who got us to a show that you can only see in Thailand, Mykel missing from picture either cause he took it or from the previous two. I think it is actually the former
Jokes aside this is one of those creepy pervs that you hear about, I did not like this guy or any of the guys like him. They are pretty easy to spot
There is a school right in the middle of this madness, poor kids, but also.......awesome??
Various Lays chip flavors.......or as they call them abroad, crisps
Crab
Seaweed
Mexican BBQ
???????????
Magic toilet, I did not play with the buttons, but I bet its crazier than half the rides at Disneyland
The reason I was very nervous the power was going to go out during the Superbowl. Its worse than this in other areas
My whip home, I am back now, let's grab a drink and catch up
