the gingerbread man
quit yer cryin- you will all get postcards. i am surprised that they arrived so soon. kerria- i didn't think they would arrive before you left so i didn't send one. now it is definately too late. should i send one to mission? you will get it when you get home from travelling! that would be odd...
it has been a busy few days of doing both random and stupid things. i will try to recap it all briefly:
first off- eben is at a meditation retreat at a buddhist monastary so i am flying solo.
went to nakhon si thammarat for the express purpose of seeing shadow puppets. i see them- they are beautiful and fantastic in all ways. i also go to a wat that has thousands of tinkling bells, hundreds of golden buddhas, a lucky elephant skeleton and a bunch of pointy white things and weird trees that make it feel like being on the moon. obviously i have never been on the moon... also, i get motor stalked again, this time by a man on a motorcycle. he pulls up 3 times and makes weird meowing noises at me. i just sort of smile and keep walking. the last time i take a closer look and what's that in his hand? o yah, it's his penis. lovely. right on a busy street at noon.
next i go up to ko phangan. a little thai girl leads me from the random point on the highway the bus lets me off on and takes me on a songtheow to the ferry. i feel like a toddler and am so grateful to her. i went to ko phangan to relax but the secluded beach i want to get to is inaccessible at this late hour. i figure i might as well check out the party scene on hat rin, infamous for its full moon parties. it is new years eve. all accomodations are full- and as every other building here is accomodation related, this means a lot of people are here! it is suggested i go to ko samui, the next island over. finally one place i ask at says i can sleep for free in a cot behind the reception desk. amazing. it's by then 11 o'clock and i go get food and go to the party. it was insane. you cannot even imagine it. everyone is completely wasted on cocktail of substances, except for me. strange. a man from croatia insists i use his cell phone to text message people back home. did you get it, harmony?
the next day is disgusting. people looking closer to dead than alive. some are still drinking. girls angrily slop through mud looking for their lost sandals and articals of clothing. the beach looks as though it will supply far off shores with beach glass for the next hundred years or so. i have to flee. i decide to hike up the coast, which the guide book claims to be possible. yes, only if you replace "popular jungle hike" with "grueling death march". they mark the trail with green dots. very handy in an overgrown jungle. finally, after numerous terrifying encounters with hand size spiders and falling coconuts and wrong paths i end up on haad tian and haad yuan, two beaches only accessible by boat or hiking. i relax, meet some cool thai people and swim. here there is a place called the sanctuary where new age hippy types, looking beautiful, carry their beautiful children around the beautiful beach and drink fruit juice and do yoga and talk about the chi. i want to throw up. the next day, for some reason i decide to continue hiking. i go for about half an hour through eye high grass, get totally lost and make the profound pronouncement of: "fuck this!" (sorry mum). i take the boat back, sprint through hat rin and get me to the ferry terminal. i never even end up going to the beach that i came to the island specifically to see. the next day i catch a boat and then a bus and end up in chumpon. i leave again soon on another bus to prachuap khiri karm, my intended destination.
i am on the run.
it has been a busy few days of doing both random and stupid things. i will try to recap it all briefly:
first off- eben is at a meditation retreat at a buddhist monastary so i am flying solo.
went to nakhon si thammarat for the express purpose of seeing shadow puppets. i see them- they are beautiful and fantastic in all ways. i also go to a wat that has thousands of tinkling bells, hundreds of golden buddhas, a lucky elephant skeleton and a bunch of pointy white things and weird trees that make it feel like being on the moon. obviously i have never been on the moon... also, i get motor stalked again, this time by a man on a motorcycle. he pulls up 3 times and makes weird meowing noises at me. i just sort of smile and keep walking. the last time i take a closer look and what's that in his hand? o yah, it's his penis. lovely. right on a busy street at noon.
next i go up to ko phangan. a little thai girl leads me from the random point on the highway the bus lets me off on and takes me on a songtheow to the ferry. i feel like a toddler and am so grateful to her. i went to ko phangan to relax but the secluded beach i want to get to is inaccessible at this late hour. i figure i might as well check out the party scene on hat rin, infamous for its full moon parties. it is new years eve. all accomodations are full- and as every other building here is accomodation related, this means a lot of people are here! it is suggested i go to ko samui, the next island over. finally one place i ask at says i can sleep for free in a cot behind the reception desk. amazing. it's by then 11 o'clock and i go get food and go to the party. it was insane. you cannot even imagine it. everyone is completely wasted on cocktail of substances, except for me. strange. a man from croatia insists i use his cell phone to text message people back home. did you get it, harmony?
the next day is disgusting. people looking closer to dead than alive. some are still drinking. girls angrily slop through mud looking for their lost sandals and articals of clothing. the beach looks as though it will supply far off shores with beach glass for the next hundred years or so. i have to flee. i decide to hike up the coast, which the guide book claims to be possible. yes, only if you replace "popular jungle hike" with "grueling death march". they mark the trail with green dots. very handy in an overgrown jungle. finally, after numerous terrifying encounters with hand size spiders and falling coconuts and wrong paths i end up on haad tian and haad yuan, two beaches only accessible by boat or hiking. i relax, meet some cool thai people and swim. here there is a place called the sanctuary where new age hippy types, looking beautiful, carry their beautiful children around the beautiful beach and drink fruit juice and do yoga and talk about the chi. i want to throw up. the next day, for some reason i decide to continue hiking. i go for about half an hour through eye high grass, get totally lost and make the profound pronouncement of: "fuck this!" (sorry mum). i take the boat back, sprint through hat rin and get me to the ferry terminal. i never even end up going to the beach that i came to the island specifically to see. the next day i catch a boat and then a bus and end up in chumpon. i leave again soon on another bus to prachuap khiri karm, my intended destination.
i am on the run.
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