May 19, 2013

slowly but surely on the way to india.  couple more days till takeoff. roaming back from vietnam, through cambodia and finally thailand, the differences come into focus.  it’s different, having lived in each of those places long enough to lose perspective, and then re-visiting them all. cambodia, as much as it was a dusty shithole by the time i left,...

May 12, 2013

it’s my second day at the tall cambodian girl’s place. my stop over in phnom penh cambodia, waiting on my USD funds transfer to settle.  it’s one of the few countries in this part of the world i found that have native hard currency transfer options.  cheap ones, at that. the sort of bullshit you have to contend with, if you bum around the...

May 9, 2013

travel.  it’s like running through a giant insect infested alien jungle in nothing but your underpants, coated in honey, screaming at the top of your lungs in a high pitched girl scout voice. all that, with no prelude.  no warning, no lead in. just, one minute you’re sitting on your couch, thumbing through netflix movies, the next moment, you,...

May 7, 2013

i’ve been dodging this particular travel scenario for like, a year and a half now. puttering around SE Asia, small hops, a little bus ride to the next lily pad at a time.  how i like it.  of course it’s no different, a longer trip.  it’s just more bus rides, train rides, plane rides.  technically.  i stay in hotels now, so what’s the...

May 5, 2013

in my 20′s, i had a fancy house on a fancy peninsula in a fancy town in florida.  i was the youngest guy on record to ever buy a house in that very exclusive neighborhood.  it didn’t have a pool, so i had one put in.  all out, including the raised hot tub, fiber lit waterfalls, landscaping. i bought a boat, and a new infiniti suv to tow it with....

May 3, 2013

i’ve been researching some stuff on international banking.  keeping little piles in a dozen countries is all fine and good, but lately i’m feeling like i should get myself a bit better educated on how the real players do it.  moving a little 10k USD around and getting hit with 600 USD in fees just isn’t so much awesome. so.  digging on the...

May 1, 2013

all the hotels are full.  left the mountain resort town because of it.  back to beach resort town, where there are girlfriends.  just in case it’s as packed there, too. and it is.  my favorite beach side hotel, quadrupled prices for its last room.  it offends my frugal sensibilities.  texts to the local girl things, looking at options.  it’s...

May 1, 2013

it’s not homogenous, not all women are into keeping their man happy. there’s definitely an influence of bitch-factor, but mostly from women that are 30, divorced, or single mom-ed, or just low in the dating pool.  and it’s not just that.  they fall into one of those categories, plus they have / had a foreigner boyfriend.  which isn’t...

Apr 28, 2013

i don’t really care much about the philosophical, quasi religious implications of one brand over another. what’s weird is though, how easy it is to spawn fervent opinions about these things. it’s month two of my experiment to ditch the laptop for a tablet.  working beautifully, so far.  really,  impressive, considering that some of the...

Apr 21, 2013

the hall is enormous.  some sort of a thatched straw roof, giant black buffalo heads decorating the walls.  looming, perhaps, more than decorating. i count 52 tables.  place settings for 10 per table.  so far, the place is still only half full.  people continue to stream inside, with me watching, from my otherwise unoccupied table.  it’s an eclectic...

Apr 19, 2013

no posts for a while now … been busy roaming from little out-of-the-way fishing villages, to bro-man-dude kitesurfing towns, to snooty mountain resort towns.  lots of motorbike riding and figuring out of stuffs, not so much time to write bits and things. travel is like girls.  first girl, is like the greatest girl ever.  love eternal.  the next one,...

Apr 11, 2013

i always said, never go full nomad.  traveling sucks.  buses, keeping the passport out at all times, one hotel to the next, never making local friends.  it’s just not my thing.  you’re always floating around the tourist and traveler set, it’s insulated from the true local experience. i always figured, one must settle down for a bit.  like...

Apr 3, 2013

if you’ve been around the bloglet long enough, you’ve followed the decline of civilized apparels. a few years back, there was this. handy for travel.  and an interesting experiment.  stuck with it for a while, eventually grew the collection to two t-shirts.  it was a neat period, shedding stuff, getting the feeling of having less general baggage...

Apr 2, 2013

she texts me right as i wake up.  it’s the timing that fucks it all up for me.  i just woke up.  i’m horny as hell, and proper judgment is still sound asleep.  she lives three blocks away.  she has whatsapp.  i have whatsapp. seriously suggestive shots of her seriously nice little 22 year old body show up on my phone. i’m doomed. i...

Mar 31, 2013

i learn slowly.  no matter how long i’m at this life bits, i keep thinking that unfamiliar = stupid. unfamiliar, the local style bucket shower.  here’s how it goes:  you fill up a big bucket, or water holding thing, with water.  people like it, because the water gets colder, sitting in the shade, the bathroom, wherever.  i guess if there is a...