July 2010

Eating Grasshoppers… they’re not bad

July 10, 2010

Bad news. I lost my Flip camera. No more videos for Jeremy (not that I posted any yet anyway). I left it on the plane (from the Island of Phuket to Bangkok), and I think one of the Orient Thai Airways employees picked it up. Sadness everywhere. I didn’t dump the videos from Phi Phi [...]

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Tourist Time

July 10, 2010

We just did our first tourist-y adventure this whole trip. We took a tour of some of Phuket’s beautiful islands. The group of islands are known as Phi Phi Islands (pronounced pee-pee… which is funny, because on Thailand’s west coast, there is Pu island). First stop after the hour-long speedboat ride was at the beach [...]

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Blank and Blank each blanked a blanked

July 5, 2010

I have spent the past four days as follows: breakfast, beach, burn, ocean sunset, supper, Scooby doo, sleep. And that’s a good four to six hours at the beach. Each day we can substitute Scooby doo with the World Cup or Fantastic 4 (the old 1970s cartoons) in Thai, or House, in Thai. Law and [...]

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Emy was taken by a riptide.

July 5, 2010

Emy was caught in a riptide. She was pulled out to sea. We didn’t see the red “no swimming” sign. I was caught in the water too. I panicked. I saw her waving, but couldn’t do anything about it. I made it to shore with a struggle. I ran to find a life guard. None. [...]

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Tales of an Asian Poindexter/James Franco Doppelganger

July 2, 2010

I went to a barber here in Phuket to get a haircut. It was more of an experiment to study, 1)      Can Thai people cut western hair? 2)       Can I get a good haircut despite a language barrier? In short, the answer to both is, “No.” But it was an adventure. Emy, the team artist, [...]

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Yellow Voodoo and the Indian Ocean

July 2, 2010

Have you ever watched the sun set as the waves of the Indian Ocean wash over you in a gentle downpour? I have. I’m going to let that sink in for a minute. Sunset. Indian Ocean. Rain. Waves. Feeling Infinite. It was beautiful. The ocean met the clouds at the edge of the world and [...]

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Five. Five dolllar. Five dollar life-threatening cab ride.

July 1, 2010

We took a 45-minute cab ride from our hotel to the airport that ended up costing us under $5-American. While that sounds like a bargain, it comes with a fair amount of risk. I can’t really explain the traffic in this country without getting racist. You know when you’re stuck in traffic, and a neighboring [...]

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