tours away...

...well i don't have a lot of time but i havn't writte in so long i best write something. i started the another tour with free and easy at the beginning of the month and have been travelling with the since. its different this time since ive done all of it before and there is now a different crowd im doing it with but it is still good. i missed out on travelling over with everybody so for the first while i seemed kinda like an outsider since by the time they got here they had already started to make friendships. but not that is almost 10 days in im getting to know people better and starting to make friends not just aquintances. we are also doing the trip the opposite direction i did it last time plus a different time of year so there are many differences. we went to koh samui first and stayed at a different place than last time...which i think i liked since we were farther away from all the busyness of koh samui and in more of a relaxing part. after there we moved to koh angthong which was really nice. this place is a real secluded place that at night we had the beach and island to ourselves except the thais that ran the restaurant and kept up with the maintance of the island. it had a real camp feel about it...camp paradise. many a relaxing days spent burning on the beach, doing hikes and jaming on guitars (my group leaders not me). thats one thing i really like about this trip that the last didn't really have since both my leaders love playing guitar so are always strumming away. adam was my leader last time but he was just starting to learn then so now two years later he has gotten quite good and bertes from south africa is really good to and actually has recorded an album that i indend to buy at the end of the journey. i think there was too much sun and late nights though in koh angthong cause last night when we arrived here in koh phangnon i started to feel a bit feverish (got the chills and a bit of a stomach ache) but a early night and a lot of sleep has done me better since i don't feel bad today (except for a slight cough). today was also my return to the junglegym which was nice since i got to do some excersize again, i hope to go there often while im there to keep in shape and make my return back to phuket not so hard this time. now on a bit of a down note i have to mention that someone on the beach (not from our group or while i was around) drown today. not really sure what happened except that today the waters were really rough and he was swimming by myself and wasnt' found until it was too late. it kinda put a downer on our group this morning since something like this is a real eye opener and im sure people wont be swimming here for awhile unless the waters start to calm. im for sure not going to go in the water unless im with other people and then it will probably be just shallow until the waves get less. it hard to think of the guys family though, i heard he was travelling alone...i think he was 28 so he wasn't that old either. i heard there were many freaked out people at first all running out there and trying to push through the crowd to see if it was there loved one. there are a couple nurses in our group and they were rushed there and tried cpr but they both knew it was too late before they started so im sure they are a bit shaken up too (even though they see people dieing all the time). just a lot of prayers that should be going out right now for people so if you get a second that would be appreciated. i think we are going to do something for him tonight on the beach so we'll see how that goes.
well not to leave you on a downer like that but i must be off to meet people for dinner at one of my favorite restaurant that is on the rocks overlooking the ocean (really beautiful) called bamboo restaurant. until next time...