434 - bus to Thai border, crossed, train to Hat Yai, food from platform sellers, bus
to Krabi with New Zealand and Argentinean, Good Dreams GH, Mick the irish guy and
watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall

435 - 4 islands tour with Mick, island with mischievous monkeys, chicken island,
snorkeling, lots of sea urchins, 3 islands connected by sandbar, cave island,
raining, came back, bacon cheeseburger, watched Crash, pizza and great live music

436 - got laundry put in, posted package, rented scooters with chicagoans, drove to
hot springs, accident, shuttling scooters, hospital, she was alright, back to hot
springs, back by night and cold with bugs, went to the night market for food, fried
sea cucumber, back, watched sherlock holmes

437 - breakfast without crew, bus to Koh Lanta, walked down to Phra Ae, found deal
on room, food, swimming, more walking on beach, rainbow shells, of course only girl
there was taken, minimart for pretzels and beer and mosquito repellent

438 - walked down and up beach, no shoes, hot pavement, coffee shake and chicken
curry, updated journal, relaxed and went to the bar, met caroline and zoe, drank and
chatted with them, watched fire show and danced, slept

439 - ferry to Koh Phi Phi with Caroline and Zoe, walked around with them, shopping,
booked room, they left, went back to dorm, out for food, spaghetti and salmon,
explored bar area, took advantage of free drinks, nothing happened

440 - hangover, walked around Koh Phi Phi, sat on beach for a while, walked "back
streets", went out to low tide on the beach, relaxed in Sunflower Bar, met israelis
in dorm, went out for drinks with them, chilled

441 - morning hike after Thai pancake, viewpoints, raintee bay, back, quick shower,
tour boat, Monkey Beach, snorkeling in Phi Phi Leh, saw barracuda, Maya Bay, short
rest, didn't know what to do before sunset, waited, sunset, back and chilled with
israelis, papaya restaurant

442 - monsoon rain in morning, coffee and croissant, ferry, long ride next to old
man and thai boy (kind of sketchy), drips from ceiling onto me, Phuket, walked to
bus station 4 km, 30 baht to Karon, walked around and found Pineapple GH, met Kat
from Seattle, chilled with her for the rest of the evening, picked up the DaVinci
Code

October 27 - 443 - raining outside so no motorcycle, crispy pork breakfsat, stomach
felt bad, relax, podcasts, read Axe Cop, rain, went to buy ticket, met Charlie from
DC, played pool, bought ticket

444 - sunny so explored beach, bus to surat thani, too late so forced to stay in
hotel, night market food, sleep

445 - morning bus to ferry, met michael (cameron highlands) again, threw away shoes
and bought cheap ones, ferry to Samui, bus to Chaweng, walked around and found
Dolly's place, walked beach, evening hung out with people, drank, swam, sand woman

446 - bye to Olivia and guy, worked on computer for Dolly, relaxed, bought DVDs,
cute English girls, watched Toy Story 3 and Iron Man 2, didn't go out?

447 - halloween went out to look for blue shirt, yellow tie, red jacket, rented tie,
no jacket, bought shirt (40 baht), went out as Lupin III (no one got it), gay bar
with inflatable penises, lady boy cabaret show, kissed and groped inappropriately,
went to other bars, group dissolved

448 - went to return tie, gave it to me, hangover, rain, flooding

449 - Sat around, (World Series? looked for bar, couldn't find one, found streaming
version online), did online work until power went out, finished Around The World in
80 Days

450 - Woke up to flooding in streets, no poewr, no water, went out to supermarket
with Sam, Canoes in street, read and went down to the beach with Sam

451 - woke and flooding had gone down, thought of leaving but "no bus", walked
around with Sam, back, busses existed but it was too late to catch the ferry, read
the rest of the DaVinci Code

452 - said goodbye to everyone, bus to Nathon, ferry, bus to train station, Irish
guys (saw later in Chiang Mai), got on train to Bangkok, train delayed 140 minutes,
sleep

453 - arrived in Bangkok, tuk tuk to Khaosan with stop at tailor for his commission,
checked into Rainbow GH, walked to Sukhumvit Rd to get to cabbages and condoms,
walked around that area, tried to get to some club but couldn't find, walked back,
free ticket given to me by some kid

454 - Got bus to weekend market, walked around for hours, looked for hsirts, shorts,
shoes, got 2 new shorts, came back and it was already late, Free Hugs guy (Dizzy?),
Grace irish girl, gypsy romanian girl

455 - Grand Palace, Wat Po, Myanmar Consulate for visa, shoes destroyed so tied it
with cord, new shoes at supermarket sale (99 baht), Wat Arun, met Franceska, went
for food with Grace, guys eating scorpion, drinking a bit

November 9 - 456 - day with Francezka, first wanted to go somewhere in the morning,
Information suggested Ancient City, finally found bus, waited forever, when we got
there it was too expensive, got busses back to Sukhimvit, walked to Lumphini Park,
chatted and then, walked to Patpong district, go-go bars, ping pong show (needles,
candles, bottle openner, horn, whistle, projectile, writing hello, more?), escaped
while tourists were being scammed, got food, came back on cheap tuk tuk

457 - morning ? , afternoon went to Myanmar Consulate to pick up visa, express boat
up to Teak Mansion area, walked forever to it, really beautiful at sunset and I was
last person there, saw the palace as well, Benjamabophit temple, back, nothing? food
with people? weirdness between Francezka and I

458 - gotbus to train with Francezka, train to Chiang Mai, only standing seats
available, didn't have to move very often, even so a bit uncomfortable and very cold

459 - arrived in Chiang Mai very early (5 am), got songthaew to old city, walked
around checking guesthouses, had to wait for them to open, Same Same GH, walked
around to see various temples on map, cheap okonomiyaki, monk chat (not there), free
tea, park, dog orgy, night market, walked back, sleep

460 - Francezka left for trekking, met Alysha, maybe relaxed?, contacted Warren,
didn't meet him at 1, went for lunch with Alysha, James and Jaz, went to Saturday
walking market with them, then Reggae Bar, live music, Nicky drama with rasta thai

461 - Met Warren at 1, great to see him again, lunch, then went to Doi Suthep, nice
view but unimpressive, after coming back decided to meet up later (failed), came
back, Sunday walking market, saw Sam from Samui, and the couple from
Holland/Equador, snacks, pizza, Reggae Bar with other

462 - rented motorbike, internet cafe briefly to print corrected visa form, went to
Indian Consulate for visa, almost impossible to find, needed extra pages, US
Consulate closed, angry, call fail, made appointment in internet cafe, okonomiyaki
shop closed, pizza place closed, other things that went wrong, read, Muay Thai
Boxing with Finnish guy, saw Mick, lost bet, Reggae Bar, met Dan, Nicky had drama
again and stalker

463 - Dan and I motorcycled to Pai, coffee research center, amazing views of Pai,
couldn't find GH, went on a search, last minute Happy House GH cart rolled by and
took us there, checked in, had small pool table, nice people, relaxed, went on walk
through town, market, drinks at Yellow bar and pool, then Buffalo, german girls with
dreads, playing drinking games again with locals

464 - drove bikes to waterfall, relaxed, fell into river, lunch at nice viewpoint,
checkpoint by police, nice viewpoint, went out to walking market again, pool at
yellow, bamboo bar for night, hot bartender megan

465 - called Indian Consulate, elephant trekking around mountain, river playing, hot
springs, red worms, nap, pool, bebop bar, bamboo bar until 5 am

466 - breakfast, internet cafe, pool, Pai Canyon, spiderweb slip, waterfall, coffee
in love restaurant, back, out with friends, Jazz bar, market to buy knit orange for
Megan, drinking and eating at bamboo bar, hitting on Megan, squirt gun present

467 - headed out to Chiang Mai with dan, long drive but shorter than trip up, went
to market with an, Loi Krathong festival, lanterns in air, fireworks, lit offerings
down river, amazing, then came back and went to Reggae bar?

468 - paid (wrong but good) price for bike, bye to dan, reserved Air Asia tickets,
updated journal a bit, had to switch guesthouses to Diva, went out for a bit of the
night market, and then again to Loi Krathong to take more photos, back then relaxed,
sleep

November 22 - 469 - got up, waited to get motorcycle because 24 hour thing, drove to
tiger kingdom, big cat, awesome, saw other tigers too, came back, met Justin again
(in Pai as well), Israeli, hot dutch girl, all went out for end of Loi Krathong,
parted with couple, Justin and I went to reggae bar, montana girl

470 - bit hungover, US consulate for extra pages, India Consulate for visa, back,
returned scooter, relaxed at GH, heard Justin's story about crazy night with thai
girl, Songthaew to bus to sukhothai, got to sukhothai at night, cherry picked
guesthouse, Le Sukhothai Resort, never before have i seen so many bugs, night market
food

471 - early morning bike ride to Wat Thawet, Buddhist hell statues, bike back with
brief visit to bus station for schedule, packed, sonthaew to bus (almost lost ipod),
bus to Ayuthaya, carol, walked 1 km to bus to center, found hostel, clean and comfy,
went out for dinner, found Carol, drinks and US states games

472 - 7:30 up and walked to temples, met carol there, 2 temples, buddha head in
tree, separated from carol, walked a lot, large reclining buddha, lost, dog gang
followed me, tourism office, rice porridge, market, shorts, pen, postcard, razors,
toilet paper, slurpie, soap, and updated journal

473 - morning tried to find bus to train, instead found 3 baht ferry, train to lop
buri 20 baht, TAT tourism office, Noom guesthouse, walked around old city, burnt
building, old ruins, monkeys on buildings and temple ruins, buildings in cages,
back, nap, out for food, drinking, club tawah, chinese girl fail

474 - attempted to sleep in, facebook back and forth with caroline, rented bike,
food at 10 baht noodle place, caro and zo came by at 1:30, drove out to the lake,
relaxed there chatting, learned backgammon, drove back with bugs in the face, fell
asleep reading

475 - morning got cheap small breakfast and coffee, hung around hotel chatting with
english girl, 9:00 went to reserve train ticket and then to see the Monkey Buffet,
boring so left, planning in train station, took the train with the English girls,
played charades, lady boy angels in BK station, back to Rainbow GH by bus, out
partying with Kiwis and english woman

476 - crazy evening, got back at 5 am, slept for 3.5 hours, productivity, changed
money, sent package home (1 kg for 10$) got postcards, looked for shirt with no
luck, came back, listened to Hendrix on balcony, people watched, Swiss girl Malika,
Khaosan with crew, drinking, (tried to kiss M but fail)

477 - Big breakfast, booked air bus, chat with Malika and new guy, acted as guide
sorta, left, bus problems, airport, no problems, dairy queen blizzard, plane to
Myanmar, guy sitting next to me from Tuanggi, "no bus" from airport, exchanged $10
at 850 kyat, walked 2 km to public bus, 200 ks but took 500 with a laugh, found
hotel - White House (really cool guesthouse, very high and decorated), food, ice
cream, internet, talking with others on roof with myanmar beer