One week into the trip and I never want it to end. It's mso hot here. Hot and sweaty and pungent. I love it. I am writing this from a deliciously air conditioned internet cafe, mind you, but will not be cranky when i go back outside to jump on my teal hello kitty scooter. We just finished breakfast...90 cent spicy rice noodle porkball soup.
The water here is an amazing temperature...somewhere inbetween refresingly cool and ohhhh...I just peed in my wetsuit. The jellyfish dont sting...or haven't yet and there fish everywhere. We haven't had much wind but that's no problem cause we just putt putt onto the next island or bay. The topography is a delightful mix of New Zealand greenery, Marquesian dramatic cliffs, and yet has it's own flare that is intoxicating. It's not often that i'm stunned to the point that i have no words, but damn...this place has done it to me several times.
Mom, Mandy, and I are taking a cooking class in a couple of days. I am trying to go scuba diving, but don't have a phisical copy of my PADI card which makes it a wee bit difficult. We may rent some tanks and go find our own whale shark. We are anchored in Nei Harn around the corner from Patong beach. Still left to do? See the elephants, visit the big Buddah on top of the hill, purchase a new wardrobe for less than 100$, and of course clear up the rumour about the ping pong balls.
Cheers to family excursions
Cassie
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Kinda of a last minute plan to meet up with the family in Thailand. Mandy and I flew into Bankok on Friday to meet up with mom and dad. We are back on Sora and planning on day sailing along the coast for the next week or so. Both Mandy and dad have got new cameras so the photo gallery will soon be chokkablock.
This is a happy snap poo took of us on a ferry in downtown Bankok.
Good to be on the road again,
Cass
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February 6, 2009, 1:30 pm
This is Dharma.
Much has happened sice arrival in NZ last September.
We'll start recent and moonwalk back through the good stuff.
Last week we were towed by Captain Johnny Clueless of Cacfuego past Bream Head into the Whangarei river for a high tide mission back to the boatshed.
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September 14, 2008, 7:04 pm
I've spent the past week on my own pace rocking around Bali and loving life. I get to do all those things that don't happen when you're hoofing around with others. I spent a few days in Legain Beach right next to the ever popular Kuta and Dreamland surfing headquarters. My time was evenly divided between running on the beach, hunting local food, and watching surfers and backpackers doing the mating dance. I feel like such a geezer scoffing at 'kids' flirting and cavorting about like gazelles. Yet I can't bring myself to join them....
So, with no small bit of urgency, I booked a shuttle to Ubud inland and have spent the past five days here busing myself with cool shit like trekking through the rice paddies, yoga-ing, learning about Balinese cooking, checking out the local underground market, and of course, watching the monkeys. There is a cafe that i frequent that serves lassies, which are basically just yoghurt, ice, and salt. Not only do they taste like yum they also rhyme with me. My body loves them. I dream about them and count down the minutes till it's appropriate for me to purchase another one. So..that's what I'm going to do right now.
Ahhhh...it feels great having a clean pallet.
Cheers to not not knowing what the hells happens next!
Cass
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