I arrived in Pai yesterday by way of minibus from Chiang Mai. I got in around 3 pm, and began my search for a place to stay. This city, which is really a small town of 3000, is packed with Thai tourists. It was the setting of a Thai romantic film in 2006 and since [...]

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The guest house i stayed at has been awesome, it is cheap, fun and in a great location. I spent a week here, and helped Robert, the guy who owns it, set up Wi-Fi and get some advertising out on signs about it. He treated me to a few free meals as payment, which was [...]

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So close to being done with this revamp of the blog. Can’t get it to work quite right in Internet Explorer, so go ahead and download Firefox. It is better anyway. I worked on it during the day, when all you guys were asleep, but now it is late here, and mid-day there, so I [...]

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Technorati Tags: Chaing Mai,work,travel I have spent a great deal of time over the past few days working online to update the back end of my blog, and to work on how it is displayed. I am not sure that this will be the final version, but for a while, it will work. I have [...]

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I always find it interesting to spend a decent amount of time in a city when I am traveling. You get to know the local population, the local hangouts, even where the best prices can be found. Since I am currently spending a great deal of time in Chiang Mai, I have begun to learn [...]

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Christmas in Thailand has been actually pretty decent. I got a great dinner with with an English guy I have become friends with, we sat around his cafe drinking wine and telling stories, while I ate pork chops and mashed potatoes. I even got some carols from the school kids singing last night!

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I have found work here that will occupy me for at least the next 10-15 days. I am building a series of websites for a guy who is starting a network of companies simultaneously. I am getting paid about $700 for the work, plus 20% of the online profit revenue that the site brings in. [...]

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Sometimes s*** happens. When Laura said she wanted to come with me to Everest, I was excited about the possibility. I encouraged her to meet me in Bangkok, but didn’t think that much more about it. I was a little worried about having a traveling companion because I had really enjoyed traveling by myself this [...]

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Last post for 3 or 4 days. We are going trekking to ride elephants in the jungle!

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Today I rented a motorbike again and took off into the countryside again. Laura had to do some work this morning, so I went of by myself and made my way up into the mountains to Wat Doi Suthep, one of the largest temples around. It is on the side of a mountain, and overlooks [...]

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Always trying to make a buck or two… Fake watches are actually really good here, and I spent a few hours at a market tonight talking about buying bulk quantities of watches with vendors. If you are interested, visit benhanna.com/watches. Makes for good x-mas and birthday gifts…

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Traveling many hours in Thailand is usually a taxing experience that wears down even the most hardened of travelers (which I am not). This trip was different. We were so sick of being sick and hot in Bangkok, that we opted to pay a little extra for an air-con sleeper train for the 14 hour [...]

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