One month

Its been a little over one month since my last entry, and lets just say the last entry wasnt up for a Pulitzer award. I have been out and about, traveling in 3 countries all with sub par interweb access. The best attempt in having solid interweb access has been in Thailand....which I havent been in, in almost 3 weeks.

my trip so far has included Malaysia, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia.

the cities are too many to list, but here are some highlight locations
-Bangkok, Thailand
-Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
-Penang, Malayasia
-Ao Nang, Thailand
-Chiang Mai, Thailand
-Chiang Rai, Thailand
-Chang Kong, Thailand
-Luang Prabang, Laos
-Vang Vieng, Laos
-Vientiane, Laos
-Pakse, Laos
-Siem Reap, Cambodia


All these cities have had a great role in my vacation, friend encounters, food discoveries and drunken debaucheries.
One thing for sure is, my feeble attempts at keeping an up to date blog. I tip my hat forward to all of you who have the diligence and desire to keep your blogs properly updated.

I CANT DO IT!

I will not purely blame poor access or shoddy computer....I will also accept full responsibility of this poor attempt.

ITS BLOODY HARD! try living in the moment day to day and soaking it all in and not letting one memory go by. ....

i admit, i am not a blogger. I am a liver (not the organ)

my photo montages will hopefully convey to you onlookers my memories and desires and interactions.

Words cannot communicate my story thus far, the photos may have better success.

I want to let all of you know, the people i just met and the people who are back home.

If i am not with you now, I miss you.

I enjoy all of your company and conversation.

Rest assured there are people in these new foreign lands, who call these places home, that have befriended me. they have invited me to their dining table, their homes and their ruins. They have all done this with no idea of repay. they have done what all of my true friends have done, been sincere and have love.

we are all from different mothers and different cultures. However, we are all human and we all live in the same earth. We seek and desire what we all do; good food, warm smiles, engaging conversation, overcast days leading into sunny days and what we seek most is......friendship .

new picutres

check out the new pictures

i got some stimulus!

yo dudez!!

uncle sam just threw me a cash advance from my own tax return for 2009.
I just got my stimulus check!!

I however will be not spending it anywhere near USA, and opting to spend it SE Asia!

maybe even for some Burmese cyclone relief.

Some photos and 1 video

Here are the first set of photos of my trip into bangkok. I also took a short video of a group of women making some great thai curry at a local weekend market....amazing stuff!!!

check it out

http://www.flickr.com/photos/snoobar/sets/72157604882698490/

here is the vid

http://www.flickr.com/photos/snoobar/2466034872/in/set-72157604882698490/

MADE IT!!!!

After a 22 hour flight and 2 stopovers in LAX and Taipei, I did it.

The flight wasnt that bad, and the Taiwanese Stewardess' were all CUTEEEEE


anway, I lost out on my thursday. Thats right! I had no thursday. I had almost 16 hours of night.

When I got into Bangkok it was muggy and cloudy.

So now, its Saturday the 3rd and I am staying at my friend Mimi's, parents house in Nothonburi. This area is about 35-40 min outside (North of) Bangkok. Imagine it like a suburb, but not really :)

I am still in a daze of shock. I have mentioned to a few of you, that its hard for me right now to comprehend that i am actually in Thailand. THAT I FINALLY MADE IT!

I find when one person dreams about place for too long and does nothing to fulfill that goal, that dream or ideal becomes a faint memory. Well this is true in my case. I have struggled back and forth for so long, with the idea to do this vacation, but never allowing it to come to fruition, that now it seems hyper-dreamlike.

In this case, I hope that my dream like mental state takes a back seat and I start to become acutely aware of the present condition.

that present condition is.....

I'M ON VACATION!!!

well I am off to finish my coffee and upload some photos

love you all and miss you (...only kinda ;-) ............I'm in beautiful Thailand)

xox

shawn

Can i say FLIP SIDE!

Well i had a mighty hard time trying to sleep last night. i tossed and turned, hemmed and hawed.


So this morning I got up at 5 am, after having just went to bed 2 hours earlier, decided that i was going to throw a loop in my trip and cancel my round trip flight and re-book a one way ticket to Bangkok.

Doing this trip alteration was tremendously hard and up until the moment of purchase, I struggled with it.


after said and done. i walked away with a ticket leading to one destination and a desire to see and do all.

i have denied myself for too long, the feeling of spontaneity. The idea that, "I DONT have to comeback right away" is a new concept for me.

i have always been an independent minded person, with what i thought was an open mental spectrum. Today I both destroyed my sense of what i was and created what i want to be. An active participant in chance.

the gamble for life. happiness, change.

i havent had to gamble with my time and life for a long time , and when i did, it was a logical tested gamble.


i must say it feels good to be on the edge of the unknown.

i hope it works out in actuality, as it does in my head. If it doesnt, well i guess I'll just have to ask for a new roll

adios

T-minus 2 days and counting

I have less than two days till i fly out to Thailand.

This is the moment I have dream about for the past 8 years. 8 YEARS!!!

I am flying out April 30th @ 8:30 am

Las Vegas > San Francisco
San Francisco > Tokyo
Tokyo > Bangkok


I think the total flight time is 23 hours, after its all said n' done.

...now I am finalizing my back pack and odds n' ends