Like I say, this was my only regret of my travels, not filming this absolutely historic and radical happening in my life.
I couldn’t be bothered with the long way so I took a motorcycle taxi as I have done many times in Bangkok. It’s a scary thing to do, they duck and weave in and [...]

Sat March 27 2010. You may well be aware of the situation in Bangkok for the past few weeks. If not, I will briefly fill you in:
Exiled Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is somewhere in the world but has huge support from the common people of Thailand. These people are the ‘Red Shirts’. Thaksin was ousted [...]

After many a daze with the crew on Koh Tao, it was time for me to board the boat back to Samui in order to fly back to Bangkok. With liver in one hand, bag in the other, it was a painful 2 hour junket across the bay back to the not so relaxed Koh [...]

okilidokili. Straight to Koh Tao, to where my other family resides, Massive Gatty and the Koh Tao Posse. You see, Koh Tao as I mentioned is very different to Samui, much better I reckon. This place is probably one of the biggest certifiers of PADI and SSI scuba diving licences in the world. Full of [...]

So I went and said hello to the 2 local girls in Q Bar, one of which speaking great English agreed that we were maybe the only 3 in the bar not on mushrooms. These girls were wonderful, like all the Laos people I have met so far. Exlcuding of course the mad bus driver [...]

… perfectly 2:20pm Laos time. Yup, there have been longer waits on my travels and I was waiting in a great place, where I had stayed for the past 5 daze or so on the banks of the Mekong.
Under the advice of Graham, Emi and many a traveller I took a mini bus down to [...]

Just quickly, I am outta and heading south to Vang Vieng. The place where all the Backpackers go tubing etc. I reckon I will only do a night or so here as I can hear the beach on Hoh Tao calling me.
Would just like to acknowledge the awesome hospitality of Graham and Emi for looking [...]

Udon Thani… something ventured, something gained.

wow, what an effort. I have just spent an hour downloading Safari on this old PC in order to reach my Mac Mail. The last time I experienced something like this as far as old technology goes was in Havana Cuba, and I ended up giving up there. Good for [...]

I have learnt that Laos is a communist and somewhat under developed country. I have learnt lots a bout the culture and have been to the heart of it as far as I can get on this trip. I have been blessed.
I have learnt that there are lots of Backpackers here, and it’s slowly becoming [...]

On the way to my Baci yesterday, Kumsook took me to his old school half way up the mountain. This was a real eye opener. A school of more than 1200 students, with electricity sometimes, not a computer within cooee and a thousand beautiful smiles. No foreigeners get here, and I could certainly tell by [...]