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Flaming Raving. Beach Bums. Dancing Queens.

For the first time in this entire trip – I actually know where I will be for the next 9 days. I’m booked to stay on two different Thai islands across the next ten days.  If last night is any indication...

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Random thoughts from Koh Tao

I’m back on Koh Tao and really maximizing the island lifestyle.  The last four days have been filled with Scuba stuff, but I’ve had a little bit of downtime to compose my thoughts. At the coffee...

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Five Days of Scuba

This is a story about a boy that only recently learned how to go underwater without holding his nose who became a top-notch Scuba diver over the course of five days. True story – only about two years...

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Sunset on Koh Tao

The sun set today.  I took pictures.  It was amazing.  I can’t pick a favorite one though…so have seven.

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Indecision 2013

Over the last three days I’ve been busy receiving my “Stress and Rescue” diving certification – a prerequisite to enrolling in a Dive Master course.  At the same time I’ve been asking myself the...

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The Koh Tao Experience

Koh Tao isn’t ‘just’ an island; it is a shared experience of 7-11s, Scuba diving, late night dancing in the ocean, buckets of alcohol, fire dancers, and balloons filled with laughing gas. On paper, the...

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On leaving Koh Tao (a tale of two Butterworths)

Upon re-re-re-re-redeciding to leave Koh Tao, I reached for my wallet and briskly walked down to the nearest travel center on Koh Tao to purchase my transportation to Malaysia before I re-undecided or...

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6 Months Later: Unexpected Stories From 186 Days of Travel

Half a year.  Six months.  186 days.  Regardless of how you want to define it, this trip has now gone on longer than I ever expected it to.  Along the way there have been a number of ridiculous (and...

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Everything Ends – Part II: Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand

As I mentioned in my last post, I had no clear vision for what I would do in South East Asia – or even what the major ‘tourist attractions’ were within each of the countries.  I knew Vietnam for its...

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