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16.
Tsunami
7
January 2005
Hello to everybody. Just to report that I am safe
and sound, thanks for your concern. Had a great Christmas
Day, celebrated with a bunch of work buddies.
Because
we all eat at restaurants each and every day none of us
is all that great at cooking so we ended up at a very
flash hotel to enjoy a buffet lunch. Yummo. Started at
the dessert table and never looked back. Santa even turned
up!
Full
to the brim we headed back into our part of town (the
not so flashy) to enjoy some afternoon drinks. Our Thai
boss also imports Australian beer so we had a HUGE esky
full of crownies, another leader had just flown in from
Laos so we also had a crate of Beer Lao. Unfortunately
the Thai police were not all that impressed by our BYO
attitude to the park so we were thrown out.
No
problem, hook the esky onto the back of a little tuk tuk
and go to the next park. Kicked out again. Another tuk
tuk and end up in a car park, kicked out again. So we
end up opposite our base hotel at our favourite little
roadside cocktail man. He didn't mind that we BYO'd, as
long as he could wear one of the Santa hats. Great day,
great evening.
I
was starting a trip boxing day so was working hard in
the morning when the office became utter chaos with the
news of the tsunami. It took most of the day to track
down all the groups and leaders. Very fortunate no one
was hurt. A few operators have been badly damaged and
lost staff which is really sad.
I
headed to Cambodia the next day so have been out of the
loop for awhile. Some of my friends are "missing"
which is depressing. Hoping that when I get back to Bangkok
I might find out some news about them. Until then have
put on my happy face and am taking a great bunch of people
through rural Cambodia and Laos.
Hope you had a great new year.
Marlo
About
the Author
Marlo Perry is a Group Leader for the Australian based
tour operator, Intrepid
Travel.
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