Spank My Wookie

So is there something I should say? I guess so cuz it's been a while since my last post. What have I been up to? Oh yeah...that's right. I went to this place called Thailand. Of all my travels, and that is not much added up, is my favorite place so far. Bangkok was an amazing sprawl of an Asian metropolis. Legendary thail food abounds, and not just Satay chicken sticks and pad thai. I'm talking streets lined with cooking stations to satisfy almost every kind of craving. Basil beef?Roast pork? What about pad thai? Then what about the more exotic stuff like cockles, shark fin soup, birds nest? you name it, it's there. And cheap. IT's all served with a grateful smile. Notice I said grateful because most of the smiles I get here either forced or not genuine. Check out m Flickr photo set for some pix.

I got to surf in 80 degree water. That means no shivering to get used to the water. No crowds, friendly lineup and stoked thai surfers, and traveling surfers abound. I was playing in mostly shore pound. The rains have not fully set the sandbars yet, so anything short of high tide, the incoming swells will flip right over and dump on the shore. Not much to work with, EXCEPT, the last day. I caught it on an outgoing tide and by myself. I got a handful of waves before another surfer comes out to join me.

Now that I'm back, it's been a drag to get back to work. All I think about is another trip, but that feeling is slowly going away. Replaced by cold water and frumpy onshore winds for the next three months, I need to find a way to get some nice surf in. Ahh...the memories.

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