Chang Mai

mmm, oil massage, soo good. well last night was fun, went to a buffet and you could grill your own meat which was sweet, kinda cooking for yourself again, hehe. after many drink at the one place and meeting some english girls and guys, we went a few doors down to the bar where they had a live band playing who had a really good guitarist in my mind and continued the party with dancing included this time. Of course we party till 2am when we have to get on a bus the next day at 8:30am, hehe. oh well, today was sweet, we visited a few tibal hill villages that were interesting but quite depressing as the gap between them and the city thai is huge. then we did some elephant riding which was cool as i have never done that before. i liked their pace too, hehe. also, it was cool to see that the mahouts were controlling them but also if the elephant wanted to do something he did it anyways, hehe, like grab a bite or a drink or whatever. Then we went to this waterfall that had some sweet cliff jumping which i love and is very addictive. i had to be dragged away. to end the day off we did some bamboo rafting down the river which was neat and everyone got soaked as me and the guide were pushing it as the 3 white girls sat in the middle, so of course they got picked on quite a bit and were capsized many times. i of course had nothing to do with it, well almost nothing. we stopped along the way for some more cliff jumping and then the bus took us home. tomorrow i'm going to pai for a few days then back to chang mai then on to laos, time is ticking away.

Sukhothai-Chang Mai

No pics this time, impromtu internet stop and thought that i would put in a little something. that night in Sukhothai was pretty funny, after 3 whiskeys at the guesthouse, camille was hammered and we started playing silly games. Afterwards, us and the 2 german girls went to the one bar in town that was not busy at all but ahad a few locals and it didn't take camille long to be right in the frey of things. she was talking to all of them, they were all laughing, even the cute thai servers were having a good time. She went to ask if they had any bread or crackers or something and of course one guy brings out a freaking huge jackfruit and cuts it up for all of us. Once that placed closed down we returned to ourt guesthouse to play some cards but were of course told to leave because we were so loud, so we promenaded and tried to chat with these thai kids who were up at 1:30am, but they told us not to worry as they were going to bed at 2, hehe, right... Anyways, a little hungover the next day, we took the 6 hour bus ride to chang mai. After a few full places we found some rooms got some food and visited the night market which is a cheaper smaller version of the bangkok market and of course at night, hehe. We were planning on some disco action but once we returned to the rooms at 11:30, everyone was tired so we slept instead. tonight we will go out. today we visited a beautiful wat on this mountain top and now will get some massages do some errands. going trekking tomorrow. i'm out

Bangkok-Sukhothai

Ok, so now i am in Sukhotai, on the way to chang mai tomorrow morning. it's really nice to get out of bangkok but what i'm really looking forward to is the mountains of chang mai and pai to do some trekking and such and also laos as well. the day in bangkok was quite the whirlwind, trying to get in some boat boat riding down the river, gotta see wat pho and the grand palace, gotta do the tuk-tuk city tour with scam work, hehe, all part of the experience. we (meaning me and this girl Camille, who is from van and went to ubc who i met on the plane over) knew about the tuk-tuk scam but thought hey we get to see a lot of the city and i can deal with some selling, i know all about it, hehe. we didn't know of the scam that the will strand you out at some site for some other driver to try the scam all over again. well we weren't having any of that and had to pay the huge fee of an extra dollar to get them to take us straight back to where we want to go. why can't we just pay them whatever commission or gas coupon the shops give them?? oh well it was an adventure to get to the bus terminal to get to Sukhothai as the travel agent kinda knew but really didn't. we were lucky that a lady that was waiting at the bus stop was so friendly and actually has been to vancouver to study english who could help us. then when we arrived to the bus terminal, 2 a day trips turned into more like once an hour and so tehre really was no rush or anything. today we visited the heritage park of Sukhothai, which was really nice but of course i wanted to ride bikes the 14km there which was fine at 9:30 in the morning but not so good at 1:30 in the afternoon when you learn a new meaning of hot where you wish there was no breeze because it feels hotter than the surrounding air, hehe. well gonna go get a little drubnk tonight i believe. take care everyone.

Arrive in Bangkok

OK, no photos yet but i thought that i would just throw something out there. it was quite the long flight and the 4 hours in shanghai was too long as it allowed me and the other 2 travellers to drink too much beer which made the ride to the kok kinda shitty. get in at 3am and start drinking more beers, $2 for a big bottle, i can handle that. slept in till 12:30 and here i am. it's freaking hot outside but bearable as i have shorts and tshirt on. i need to get some local light clothes, that's for sure. kinda muggy here as it's a big city but i'm gonna go check out some sights today if i can, prolly party a little bit tonight and then head north tomorrow night. why not. there is only so much time here but so much to see, it's crazy. aight time is running out, i'm outro.

Heli ski trip 2006

So as i am packing for asia and getting ready to leave, i thought that i might try to put up some stuff up about my weekend heli skiing near cranbrook. I flew in on wednesday and commenced partying with the work buddies. Well, we party hard. So the next day i slept in until 2 of course and took the whole day at ease. On friday we work up early, went to breakfast with the 15 other people on the trip and headed to the hanger to get our shit in gear. It was a 2 hour drive to the heli pick up spot and of course we were drinking the whole way. Upon arriving in camp, it was an unter blizzard so we didn't get to do any heli skiing that day so instead we got the fire going and the keg tapped. Gong show night, and we awoke to a nice sunny day. On saturday it was touring day and we put our skins and snowshoes on and hiked up the ridge do do some lines. Beers and joints at the top and after one run we decided to go up and do another. This is when things turned a little sour. While everyone else went back to camp and got in a gasoline fire accident. No one was hurt, just caught on fire. The probably 5 minutes later, i caused an avalache on my run down and was lucky enough to get a tree. My buddy came down but didn't see what happened to me and so he caused another avalanche and lost his ski n the process. Well the ski day was over but we weren't phased too much as we knew the next day would be insane. If anyone gets the chance to heli ski, do it, the experience is amazing. I mean getting fresh lines every run was sweet but the best part for me was being up in the helicopter and watching your buddies come down the hill, it was like you were right there behind the scenes of a ski movie. Well the day was awesome, and it was a great group who for one day, wouldn't be doing anything else in the world. Well something close to that at least.