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The Snorkeling in Thailand is awesome! Scuba diving is next on the list for things to do down there.


Thai food is some of the best in the world! And now I know how to cook it!!!

Me and the amazing jackfruit!

Speedboats of the Mekong River! Dangerous as hell, but when time's short, they get the job done.

Speedboating on the Mekong River in Laos. Notice the crash helmets?! Also, check out the amazing scenery and greenery. Laos is just awe-inspiringly beautiful.

This is like a convenience store on a river. You can even get weed here!

I really dig the dragons here.

You can't see here, but this is a 7 headed dragon--one for each day of the week.

Another cool Laotian dragon. I'm a pretty swell photographer i think

This is bamboo scaffolding used in temple repairs.

A lovely little buddhist mural.

Rice offered to Buddha...i think!

Beautiful valley on the way to Vang Vieng. Our bus actually broke down at one point so we got a chance to get outside and take some shots of the beauty around us.

The Mekong River. In Vang Vieng, you can float down this on innertubes, stopping every few hundred meters and getting your booze on! It's super terrific.

I was told by the Brits i was with that this is called a flying fox. I'd call it a trapeze thingy. Either way, it's wicked fun, with participants easily able to get 15-20 feet of air at the apex of the swing before plunging into the river.

Biking around Vang Vieng, we saw some amazing scenery. Gigantic limestone cliffs and mountains. It's like paradise.

Another mountain.

A beautiful Buddha. To get here, we had to climb up this way steep trail on a mountain and then into a cave. Here's the trail down:

Ccan't really see how difficult it is there, but it was quite an effort.

Monkeying around this stunningly beautiful turquoise pool at the base of the mountain.

Mud! Everywhere was mud on this bike trip!

Buddha is everywhere down there. Here we can see him resting at a temple in Vientienne.

This temple in fact. It looks more like a Star Trek set piece or something out of Buck Rogers than it does a Buddhist temple.


And that was my Summer Vacation! I hope you liked the pics.

Now things are going quite well here in South Korea. The job is still wonderful and easy peazy though i do have an interview for another job on October 14th. Basically it would be the same job, but at a different University, lilving in a much better location. Or so i hear.

Just the other week i was present at school for something called Sports Day...or Field Day to us Americans. It was quite a spectacle with students running races everywhere and doing all kinds of other games. There was a giant tug of war game and even some of the parents got involved with stuff. I got plenty of pics of that but i need to develope them. Rest assured, they'll be here a lot faster than these pics.

I've been really enjoying my b-day present from my brother. He got me a subscription to a coffee of the month club--Green Mountain Organic Coffee--and it's terrific. You have no idea how wonderful real coffee is after having lived off the instant shit they serve all the time here.

Now i have a 6 day weekend and i have to figure out what to do for that. Time to go and try and get shit done.