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Re: Have fun                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Just a quick note to let you know that I made if to [[L93]] ok. I managed to catch a bad cold before I left, and it has followed me here. I've just been resting the last couple days, and seem to be getting better.

This is a great place to relax though. I'm in the town of Antigua, up in the mountains. It's all cobblestone streets and Mayan vendors selling scarves and blankets. The architecture is really neat. The buildings are very plain on the outside, just stone walls with wooden doors. Inside though, it opens up into big gardened courtyards.

Hopefully, I'll be ready to travel by tomorrow. I think [[L68]] is the next destination.
Livin' Large in the Third World                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 So after a few days holed up in [[L93]], I made it down to [[L68]], and am currently hanging out in [[L5002]]. This place is pretty cool, and it's definitely not been discovered by the tourist industry yet. I've seen six European faces in the two days we've been here. This is a pretty rough town. You don't really get to walk the streets after dark unless you're a local. (especially last night, since the USA just beat the [[L1174]]an soccer team, and the locals were not taking it well!)

We headed up the coast a ways today to check out the surf. I guess the waves had been great the few days before we showed up, but not so much today or yesterday. We managed to find our way onto a nice deserted stretch of black sand beach to try to make some headway on a suntan. Definitely a lot nicer than the trash strewn beach back in town.

Anyway, if the surf doesn't pick up tomorrow, we'll probably head back inland for a while. Maybe into [[L100]] to check out the ruins at [[L5003]].
The Killing Fields                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Today I held a human skull in my hands.

The killing [[L5252]]s are really something to behold.  The site itself is nothing special.  Just a small monument in a [[L5252]] full of holes, but what it lacks in scope it makes up in impact.  The monument itself is essentially a giant glass display case.  10 shelves, 20 feet by 20 feet, each stacked three high with piles of skulls that they have been digging up in the immediate vicinity.  8000 in all.

Walking among the mass graves, it took a while to register the scraps of cloth sticking out of the ground.  This is Southeast Asia so you get used to trash everywhere.  But eventually it sunk in that these were people抯 clothes working their way out of the ground after the fall rains.  Scratch the surface and you抣l find bones inside them.  Visitors collect them in little shrines along with teeth and bits of clothing.  The sign says there are 2000 more bodies that they plan to leave buried there.  As I said, it抯 a pretty powerful experience.
Southeast Asian Travel Day                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      Woke up in time for a nice cup of coffee on the lake in [[L5046]] and a few minutes to chill before another long travel day.

So, a half hour on a motorbike across town and an hour on a state of the art Cambodian airliner puts me back in lovely [[L5097]] in time to pick up the bags and jump on a night train to [[L1739]] Thani.  Just 20 hours of buses, pickup trucks and longtail boats away from the beach.  No worries!
Angkor                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Angkor is pretty cool.  I'm digging the part where they let you climb over basically anything.  The best temples are the broken down ones in the jungle where you can clambor over big piles of stone blocks and drop squeeze into the old Temples that are barely standing.

It was nice that you could hire a guy for $5 to drive you around on a motorbike from [[L3190]] to sunset and wait outside these temple sites for hours at a time, but still I think my best day was the one where I just rented a bike and pedaled out to the remote spots that nobody visits.  Got to meet a couple kids on their way to the fishing hole, and found the back way through the jungle to get from temple to temple.

Too bad they're building giant luxury hotels so fast.  In another year or so I bet you'll start seeing ropes and signs and guards all over the place.  Better get there now if you still want to sift through the rubble yourself!
A month later...                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Been here a whole month now, climbing rocks, working on the tan, and amassing stories.  Maybe if I get some time I'll even tell some of them.  Until then, know that life remains good.
Tidal Wave                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      So [[L215]] is treating me pretty well thus far. Beautiful weather, great beach, clear water, perfect rock, couldn't ask for much more. 

So check out the first photo on this page:

http://www.megagrip.co.uk/[[L215]]/Thai7.htm

That is the route that I'm working on at the moment. The photo doesn't do justice to how ridiculously steep this piece of rock is. There is a 20 
foot section where you gain 3 feet of elevation! Completely unlike anything I've been on. It's all sorts of fun, and plenty hard as well. I've put three days into it so far, and only just this morning finally got to see the top. That doesn't mean I'm done by any means. Now I get to spend the next few days linking together moves and trying to get the whole thing in one go.

Anyway, things go well. Plenty to climb, plenty of time relaxing on the beach, even some diving in the cards. See ya! 
The King Cruiser                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                So life in [[L3322]] continues to be nothing but good. I made it out diving the other day, and it was the best I've ever seen. Ridiculous amounts of fish, anenomae and assorted critters. You'd lose sight of your dive buddy because there'd be 15,000 young barracuda in the way.

Our first dive of the day was on this passenger ferry that sank a few years back. The main deck is like 24m down and it's upright and in good condition. It's fun and a bit spooky cruising around inside the thing, as all the divers stir up the water & visibility is reduced to just a few meters. Being a boat, it has plenty of narrow doors and confined spaces to swim through. Definitely a cool experience!

And for those of you keeping score, I've put in a total of six days on the route now. Only a couple burns a day recently, since I have all the moves wired now, and I'm just trying to put together a clean ascent. I can get it with one rest along the way now. Now I'm just moving that rest spot gradually downward until I can cast off straight from the sand.

The route will have to wait a bit though, as I'm off to the islands tomorrow, followed by a dash for the malaysian border so that I can get a fresh 
30 day visa. 
Re: Hawaii                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      So they have cats all over the place here. They are somewhat wild, though aparently you can claim one as your own by putting a collar around its neck. As far as I can tell, most of them are filling in the duty normally performed by pidgeons. They'll hang out next to you at the restaurant and wait for you to drop some rice.

They have all sorts of chickens and ducks running around too. In fact everything on the menu is present and accounted for except beef. That sort of sets the mind wondering as to the true purpose of all those cats...

Anyway, we set off traveling tomorrow, so hopefully I'll have more interesting stories to report. 
Re: g-e-t-l-i-v-e                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               So Jay seems to be a step or two farther from the grave. In fact, he'll be climbing this afternoon, and all I can do is belay. I seem to have hosed up my shoulder, so anything I do with my left arm is somewhat agonizing. Maybe more chillin' will help.

And you'll be happy to know that I've been downing every sketchy looking dish that the street vendors can toss my way. I've even been drinking the local hootch with buckets of poisonous ice from the bar. I'm indestructable! 

(Notes: 1. Jay did in fact not die of the intestinal disorder that had him sidlined for most of the trip. 2. The shoulder complaints mentioned here were likely a mild case of the bends. )
Re: life philosophies                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Life remains unpredictable for me these days. I'm actually in [[L5097]] now, holding a ticket to Bali for tomorrow morning. It occured to me that I since I have another climber friend enroute to krabi in a couple weeks, I would need to strike now if I had any desire to go see non-thailand things. [[L156]] was the first candidate, followed by chaing mai. Then I stumbled across a cheap fare to Densapur, and it got me thinking about surfing.

This works out well for our kid Jay, as his body hasn't reacted well to tropical environs and poor sanitation. As weeks of never quite being healthy enough to climb piled up, he's been talking more about rafting, snowboarding, and other things you can do in sub-95% humidity. He hopped a flight back to the states this morning. 
back across the equator                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Do you have any idea how cheap a flight to Bali is when you book it in [[L5097]]? Well I do now, and I'm loving it here. All I knew was that there's surfing to be had in [[L104]], and that was pretty much enough. Indeed there is, as I found out first hand today. There is also really good food, friendly people, sun and remarkably cheap accomodation.

In fact, everything is pretty cheap here. They actually have paper money that is worth less than a penny. You give the guy on the beach the equivilant of a two dollar bill to pay for a bottle of water, and he has to scramble among his friends to break it for you. 

So I'm pretty much [[L5097]]'d out by now. It's a great place to visit for a day or two on the way to somewhere. But I've done that three times now on this trip alone, and there's really not all that much to do. They've got temples, they've got crowds, they've got people selling you fried, barbequed, and otherwise dead things to eat, but that's about it. About the only amusement I have left is playing "is that prostitute a man?" at night. She usually is. 
Re: back across the equator                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     (clarifying the [[L5097]] lady-boy remarks from the previous report...)