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To: Hoa Hao who wrote (3035)	4/15/2001 7:58:49 PM
From: TobagoJack	Respond to of 74559

Hi Hoa Hao, Krabi (3 hours from Phuket by car, then boat; but now has own spanking new glass and steel domestic airport) was in fact hopping, with rock climbers, local and foreign family vacationers. The beaches outside the resort's (www.rayavadee.com) confines were lively with a good mix of high-energy folks, and the food, music, drinks, hemp made for happy mental collage. Our dive boat held a bunch of nationalities and extractions, and made for fun conversations over the course of the day. My passport was the most exotic, though I was beat in the extraction department by a Portuguese/Indian/Belgium character. The water festival was interesting [anyone anywhere can throw water on anyone else anywhere] and there were plenty of water based weapons used. We also saw the queen's boat, and the five navy frigate escorts. She has a summer palace near the resort and visited a shopping/restaurant town on the next beach. On the boldness scale, my wife is more so, visiting India on wheels, trekking to Himalayan base camp on the Tibet side, and doing weird trips such as the Silk Route, Volga River, etc, etc. She goes on these trips with her more adventurous buddies, as I must have my American Standard flush toilets. I lived in a one-room mud hut without treated water and electricity for a year (when I was 10) during my parents' China exile, and that was quite enough for one lifetime of adventure without flush toilet. I did visit the Philippines quite often during their coup days (during and after Marcos era), being escorted around by friend's Landcruiser riding ex-commando type staff, but the adventures were somewhat diluted by Peninsula Hotel's ambiance or Forbe's Park fortress-like isolation. For me, the sense of adventure in the Tokyo subway system is total, simply because of the language issue. Chugs, Jay