Used Diaper

That'll teach those kids to ride their bikes at night...

So the trip back to Bangkok from Laos a couple days ago was pretty brutal. Between the wicked hangover from a week of drunken tubing in Vang Vieng, the bus crash, the other bus breakdown, sleeping in the aisle of the 5th cramped bus for the night, and missing my flight, I was pretty beat by the time I made it here to Nepal.  But!  I made it, so it's all good.

I've been neglecting this poor baby for quite a while now, partially because it's hard to find wireless internet and mostly because I'm still really lazy.  A real quick recap since my last update so these pictures have a bit of context I suppose... I've wandered from Airlie Beach, Australia to Cairns, to Darwin, up and around the Island of Bali, Indonesia, flew to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, bussed down to Singapore, back to Kuala Lumpur, across to Kuala Terrenganu, up to the Perhentian Islands, trained to Bangkok, Thailand, bussed to Vang Vieng, Laos, bussed back to Bangkok, then flew to Kathmandu, Nepal, where I'm sitting snug in my $4 a night bed at this very moment.  The plan for the next few days is to buy some warmer clothes so I don't freeze to death on a mountainside and pick a direction.  There's the Everest base camp and a few other sites to the east and the Annapurna (sp?) circuit to the west.  My visa's good for 90 days, so I'm sure I won't have a problem squeezing them both in, just gotta decide which way to go.

Bali, Indonesia

Khuta Beach by day

Khuta Beach by night

 

Lovina Beach

 

U.S.S. Liberty wreck dive site in Tulamben

Snorkeling in Padang Bai

Security Official hard at work playing Counter-Strike in the
Bali Airport

Perhentian Islands, Malaysia

Bangkok, Thailand

Vang Vieng, Laos

7km ride on rocky dirt roads with shitty pink bikes to see the
amazing Blue Lagoon

The incredibly anticlimactic false Blue Lagoon...  We were
bamboozled by a fake sign someone had stuck in the road

View from the room

Relaxing day tubing down the river. 
Free shots all day and buckets of liquor that I'm
pretty sure had a hint of gasoline in them

Rope swing at the 3rd bar.  We only made it past the 4th bar
once in 6 days

 

MF Double Rainbows son!
The picture doesn't really do it justice. 
You just haaaad to be there...

 

Ya, and I was just kidding about running over the kids biking, it was a giant log truck.

Whoop, Whoop!

So, I finally got around to buying a new camera.  Thank god for the nonstop pouring rain, flooding, and bus-trapping mudslides over the past 6 days or I'd be mildly depressed about dropping hundreds of more dollars in the midst of a trip where I'm scrounging to save at every possible opportunity.

I took it for a test run on my last sail to the Whitsunday's onboard the Samurai and given the weather, it held up quite nicely I thought.  Here's a few shots

Kickin off the afterparty in style for my last trip

I was hoping to leave Airlie Beach on Wednesday so that I'd have a few days in Cairns to get my party on and hopefully get a few dives in at the reef, but because of the flooding all the buses skipped past us.  No worries though, weather permitting I'm jumping on a bus tonight.  I'll have a whole day to wander about before I need to catch my flight to Bali.  After Bali, the plan is to wander north through Southeast Asia and over to Nepal for a trek up to Everest's southern basecamp.  A climb up higher would be amazing, but a bit lofty right now I think.  I'll just have to come back with more time and money soon enough.

Master Plan: Heading North'ish

You See, What Had Happened Was...

I've been lazy... really, really lazy.  That's all.  A couple weeks ago I typed up a whole recap of the previous few weeks, but never got around to actually posting it.  I've since accidentally deleted it, so I'm going to just keep riding this lazy train and throw up a few pictures instead.

Coff's Harbour

Us at the bus stop at 4am.  A kind older lady decided to
walk off with Denise's bag a few stops back.  The next
bus with the bag didn't arrive until 6:20am, so we walked an hour
to the hostel, an hour back to the bus to get the bag, and another
hour back to go to sleep... oh, and it was uphill both ways!

A guy cruising the town in his sweet ass disco cart at
7 in the morning.  Complete with flags, lights, and music.

Coff's Harbour

Hands down greatest sand sculpture ever made. 
Watch your back Thomas Koet

or else Chef Ramsay will RAPE YOU!

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

Thanks.

Byron Bay

Lighthouse at the cape in Byron Bay

Ehhhhhhh!!!!

Some kid doing backflips for coins at a hippie market on the
way to Nimbin

Surfer's Paradise

Vegas + a beach - porno card flickers = Surfer's Paradise

Whitsunday Islands

I wasn't planning on doing much work in Australia, but when a job popped up on a sailboat that does dive trips out to the Whitsunday Islands, I couldn't pass it up.  I help with the sailing, do a little cooking, some random odd jobs here and there, then get free snorkeling, diving, food, and booze 6 days a week.

Whitehaven Beach

The French-Canadian circus juggling on the beach

Did a bit of diving at Black Pearl Beach

Ya, that's gum in my hair.  And ya, definitely found that
while we were on a sailboat after snorkeling in the middle
of the ocean.  Lucky me!

Last picture I took before my camera died this past
week.  I've successfully broken 3 cameras in 2 in a
half months.  I'm thinking I should just stick to the
shock and waterproof ones from here on out.