I've Been Too Then

Guys, I'm back!
'Was she fifty-fifty gone?' I tin hear some of you lot think. Well, yeah. I was gone. About a calendar month agone I pose my concluding spider web log ship service online together with disappeared for the summer. All this fourth dimension I've been thinking close a agency to explicate where I'd gone together with what I'd been doing since that concluding ship service went up. Let me say you lot this: the uncomplicated response "I was on opor-garai inwards Southeast Asia" doesn't fifty-fifty laid about to comprehend it.

I've been inwards Finland, Thailand, Lao People's Democratic Republic together with Cambodia. I turned 21 inwards Bangkok, obsessed over street fine art everywhere together with sat inwards countless tuktuks. I've slept on mattresses on the floor, queen sized beds, the chairs of uncomfortable minivans together with everything inbetween. I stood inwards the dorsum of a pick-up truck, got stuck inwards a bamboo raft amongst my bracelets together with had a mud struggle inwards an elephant sanctuary. I made agency also many jokes close the Mekong river, apartment islands, together with Freek Vonk (Dutchies volition understand). I couldn't escape Ed Sheeran, but listened to Nico & Vinz all the fourth dimension to quote them inwards the championship of this spider web log post. I met people from Austria, Canada, Scotland, Commonwealth of Australia together with fifty-fifty i from my hometown (she was a flake stuck-up though). I spoke English, Dutch together with High German at the same time. I fifty-fifty learned a flake of Lao: Koi mak mung Lao! I similar Laos!

I cycled, walked, went on boats, buses together with planes. The alone matter I didn't create was run. Instead I swam: inwards oceans, rivers together with waterfalls. I drank awesome banana shakes, nifty banana shakes together with non a unmarried bad one. I learned close Buddhism, the agency the Vietnam state of war affected Laos, together with the Central Khmer Rouge. I took over 800 pictures, made iv vlogs together with countless memories. Then, afterwards iv weeks of travelling through Southeast Asia, I sat downward on a Thai isle together with wrote everything down. From the rocky start inwards Bangkok to the jungle trek inwards Chiang Mai together with the irksome boat that took me to Luang Prabang inwards Laos. I wrote close the Lao working capital missive of the alphabet Vientiane together with and therefore close Phnom Penh inwards Cambodia. I went on to write close Siem Reap together with Angkor Wat, together with therefore finished my writing marathon amongst Ko Samet, the Thai isle where I sat writing on the front end porch of a cabin amongst sea view. I had pictures together with stories for over twenty spider web log posts. By the fourth dimension I was done it was fourth dimension to become home.

So where convey I been? Everywhere. Nowhere. I lost myself inwards jungles together with on rivers, establish myself inwards the countryside together with busy cities of Southeast Asia. Now I'm dorsum abode inwards the Netherlands, but that's non the halt of the adventure. For you lot guys it's only the beginning. Over twenty stories close Southeast Asia are inwards my drafts, waiting to go told. I promise you'll stick around for a piece to listen.

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