Day 30 - Monday, March 14 - Ko Lanta

Happy Birthday Brett

1. woke up
2. had breakfast
3. rode into Sala Dan, the big town, for my usual AM ride and bought a new head covering
4. stopped at a road side stand for an excellent chicken skewer
5. arrived back at miami and swam
6. napped on the beach
7. swam
8. read
9. swam
10. re-applied sunscreen
11. sat in the sun
12. swam
13. sat on my porch and read as the beach was getting a bit scorching
14. swam
15. happy hour
16. watched the most incredible sunset I've seen to date in Thailand
17. dinner down the road (the 5 of us) at the same place we had the Indian food the other day but ate Thai this time
18. back to Miami and they went to bed
19. I went to Mongs and met 2 of the greatest people to date - she, Merilis, a 31 year old American with no direction who is wandering Asia helping countries ravashed by the Tsunami, and he, Matt, 24, a native of Oklahoma, recent graduate of Northern Arizona University (or is it college) who came to Thailand to teach English in order to postpone getting a real job in the states and wanting to travel, only to find himself caught in the Tsunami a week after he'd arrived and his story is quite amazing. If I could write a screenplay, I would. He is now teaching in Samui and has a great tale to tell that encompasses it all: natural disaster, love, pregnancy, abortion, lunch in Milan, and everything in between. He clearly isn't the same person as when he left the US just 5 months ago. I need to figure out how to turn his story into a movie.
20. bed