Re-emerging from the Blur

Ok, it has been way way way too long since I updated this thing; THIS THING being what was supposed to be my world-wide travel blog, specifically, the blog to document my most recently commenced 'round-the-world trip which began flippin' over a month ago already. Alright, actually you know what that is not so bad, I guess travel time is just so much more sped up than sit-in-one-town-working-a-steady-job time. Anyway, it's about time I said something and added something to this thing.

So what has been happening since I blogged last? Well, let's see, I went from New York, to Myrtle Beach, SC, to California, to Hawaii, to Australia, and to Thailand by way of Korea. And now here I stay, in Bangkok, what some have called "The City of Angels" and I do say these some people have labeled it right. This place is flippin' full of angels, nutty and wild as they may be, but angels none the less. Bangkok is amazing and awesome and breathtaking in so many ways and also amazingly grimy in so many ways. I just can't call it quits.

I showed up here almost three weeks ago already.

I thought I would be passing through, a quick re-introduction to the city and country who's company I briefly but intensely enjoyed 4 years ago. I thought I would be in Indonesia already by this time. I thought maybe a max of 4 days or so in Bangkok and then I'd be out.
But then I show up in old Khao San road and my buddy E-danger, an old an important friend from Hawaii, who I was scheduled to rendezvous with, tells me he's heading to Laos the next day at 8 in the morning. At this point it's one in the morning and I had been traveling across countries for something like 20 hours straight and had just booked myself in to a cushy hotel room (by Khao Sarn Road standards) where I was looking forward to having a good rest.

But adventure called, a new country's stamp in my passport was hard to pass up, so off I went.

I will riff more on Laos later, but I'll just say it was a treat to visit a communist country, something I had never really considered (although I should have) as being all that different than visiting any other country.

So anyway, a few days later and I was back in Thailand hanging with E-danger and Nic Metro, a character who was actually the whole reason for the trip to Laos in the first place, and also another friend from Hawaii, and perhaps most importantly, a stalwart of the international road.
We were hanging around the outskirts of Korat, the second largest city in Thailand actually, located in the North East. Nic has been doing a stint teaching English at a High School there, a stint he reckons is pretty much a path towards a permanent career teaching English in different capacities in Thailand.

It was a good time in the country and in a different big city of Thailand.

I got back to Bangkok and truth be told at this point the past two weeks is a bit of a blur. I don't know how it has been so long that I have been here, but really I've been doing a lot. I've hired a local guy to help me with developing my website, I've been to a number of galleries and openings to meet artists and gallery owners, I've been to two Universities to meet young art students and see what that is all about, I've been to famous temples to see what kind of art is going on there, and I've hit a number of markets and streets to see what sort of art is going on in those enclaves. And everywhere I've went I have been HYPED OUT OF MY MIND at how awesome, hip, deep, and plentiful the art in this massive town is. Bangkok is basically BANGING!

But anyway, there is much more to come, many words, many pictures, and things to buy from me from my travels soon to be posted on my web store! So stay posted, it's late as hell for me, I've been up late hanging with new artist friends, guys that run t-shirt lines and make music videos for Thai reggae bands, and now its time to call it quits before I get up early and hit Bangkok all over again, until then, Sawadee Krap!

-Daikon Deezy aka. Mikey Fresh