Tuesday Eric and Fletch and I all left Koh Tao on the same day, Eric to fly home from Bangkok, and Fletch and I to go explore the rest of Thailand for two weeks before also making our way back to the US for the holidays. Knowing that we were going exploring for two weeks only just barely made our departure more bearable. The fact was that Koh Tao had been a perfect home and I was really going to miss it. The island was small enough to be able to get around anywhere you wanted to go in no time
Our rent-a-cat experiment ended about how I expected it to. I fell in love with a bundle of fur who was destined to stay on Koh Tao while I was doomed to leave. He was one cool cat. His favorite way of being held was upside down. And when no one was around to hold him upside down he would pop a squat in his own personal beanbag chair. Sometimes he would get tricked into wearing stupid homemade tinfoil hats when he thought he was going to get held upside down. Those were never good moments. And if still no one would hold him
1. Purchasing a perfectly reliable motorbike for $312. 2. Selling that same motorbike for $250 after riding it everyday for nine months. That's $62 for nine months of transportation. 3. Buying a brand new set of dirt tires for that bike for $30. 4. Fixing pretty much anything on that bike for $5. 5. Bum guns. They're a little weird to get used to at first but after a couple of days you come to realize that cleaning down there with running water is so much more hygienic then just wiping with a bit of toilet paper. Why has the rest of the world