Thailand = new addiction

           Wow. Well I have been meaning to write this post for awhile…but let’s be honest…I have had other stuff to do. Thailand is amazing. I love it here. But I have found that there are some drawbacks to traveling alone…like pictures for example. I don’t have anyone to take pictures of me at places…so consequently…you probably won’t see too many pictures on here of my time in Thailand. That and some experiences are just so much better when you have a friend(or friends) to share them with. That being said…I have been out on the boats every day since I have got here. I will have logged my 20^th dive here by time this gets posted and that is with being here just over a week. I finished my open water and advanced open water last week. I start my Rescue diver course on Saturday….hmmm where to start. Well the food as you can imagine is nothing short of incredible! I think my favorite thing is panange curry…oh. my. I am in love…I may or may not eat this at least every other day…sometimes multiple times in a day and multiple days in a row…judge me. I really don’t care. Haha.

            So…I came here to dive and that is what I have been doing. Every. Day. I have found that I am addicted to wreck diving. Pretty much every dive except the ones I had to do for courses has been on wrecks. The weather has limited the dives sites we can get to. It is monsoon season down south so it has messed with the wind and the currents, giving less than ideal conditions up here for diving. But GREAT conditions for training and learning to dive. It is actually the main reason I chose to come dive here instead of down south where the diving in much better. Low visibility and strong currents have made my training much better. I feel pretty confident in diving in just about any conditions…so when I come back and get down south to 30+ meter visibility and slack currents…it is going to be a piece of cake.

            So what this post boils down to is this. I am addicted. So for those of you reading this back home…this means I need some dive buddies when I get back…any volunteers? Trip to Mexico or Catalina in the near future? I am thinking this should happen. Man I really need to find some hobbies that are less equipment intensive…between mountain biking, rock climbing, skiing, snowboarding, snowmobiling, shooting, motorcycles, ATV’s, cars, and diving I am going to need to find a job that pays really well so I can do them all…that and my garage/shop will need to be quite large…well every shop should be large, but mine especially so. I think flying is the only thing not on my list of really expensive hobbies…and I may or may not have plans to get my pilots license… oh boy. Haha. One of my Singaporean friends said it so well he said, “Man I don’t want as much money as possible…you can always find things to spend it on… what I need is to have no more desires.” I could not have said it better. Well life is going great. I am having the most epic summer ever. Next stop? Jump school. That’s right. Jumping out of airplanes. Oh yes please.