Benjama Lamphun

... chain can
easily be broken as well as locks picked.




Next day, after
talking with Mr. Limprasutr, the hotel general manager about all the problems
we decided to book a car (for 200 Baht) from their tour desk to take us to the
airport. The car arrives and after we
load our bags in the car, my staff opens the drivers passenger side of the car
only to find a woman sitting there.



Ugh, safety rule ...

... rocks and trees she was screaming Sid Sid al the blinking time! just like yesterday when she had an ant on her sock i swear she thinks im super women! but in the end our raft capsized and we ended up jumping in anyway in our clothes! again more high rocks to climb up this was the highest one yet so i bombed in! was awesome! now we are back at our hostel writing this and heading out in a bit to get chang-ed up! missing you all loads more blogs and pics to come soon xxx

... was top
notch, and there were no shoes aloud inside. Hardwood floors, colorful walls,
extremely clean showers and bathrooms, comfortable rooms, made for a nice stay
at this wonderful hostel. I ended up straying from Thai food that night, as a
friend I had met along the way recommended this burrito place called Diablo
Burrito. I found it, and it was indeed amazing. The owner was an American who
had lived in Berkeley, California, and aimed to ...

... that there aren't enough buses for all the passengers on the ferry.



There were about 4 buses waiting for us at the dock to take us to Surat Thani and once those filled there were STILL several bus loads of us waiting around. No one tells you what is going on so you just bunker down and play cards or read a book and wait, assuming that a bus is eventually coming to get you. After waiting for several hours (and freaking out that we were going to miss our connecting bus up to ...

... and are told we are hiking to another waterfall (jeeze I can barely move already). We follow a smaller tattooed shirtless Thai man in flip-flops into the jungle again. There are two other Germans who join us. Bom (our guide) races faster than the first through the red dirt path of the village and back into the jungle. He is like a little dark ripped elf with a diesel hat and tattoos. I don't think he is trying to rush, he stops often to pick off some kind of exotic fruit ...

After arriving in Bangkok, we got another bus up to Chiang Mai; a bit ambitous really becasue after two 13 hour bus journeys on the trott we arrived feeling tired and ****** off in Chiang Mai. Our mood was raised however by the cheapness of the city and we got a nice room for just 2 pounds each a night! Chaing Mai was actually one of ...

... He explained that anyone, not just well educated people can have Higher Knowledge. It is attained by learning from others (reminded of the exec MBA program, learning from the experience of other people with business experience), having pure thoughts, and doing good/friendly actions. It seemed like it was important to be a part of a community and to help make it a better society, not living in a vacuum. He also explained that lay people are not as devout or religious because there ...

... the lunch lady classroom.phoenix.edu big ten basketball barret ...

Nick is not from the country, and therefore was no aware that rooster's don't exactly function as they do in cartoons. He thought when the sun rises a rooster greets it with a cock-a-doodle-doo (or keek-er-ee-kee, if you're like our European friends), and that was it. So imagine his surprise when the entire fleet of roosters at the Conservancy began calling at 4:30 in the morning and continued to do so well past breakfast. Never mind the tossing and turning, as we were out of ...

... was a total pimp, having knocked up several girls already this year, only to learn later that Seung-hwin was, in fact, a MOTHER of two babies. Susan loved it. Seung-hwin was very noble and large, despite her female status, and made this really cool vibrating noise that we all thought was some sort of large vehicle at first. It would shake Nick when he was riding her. She's only 15 and has already had two sons! Wanalee is only 11, but Susan hopes that she ...