{"id":39,"date":"2002-12-28T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-28T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2002\/12\/28\/ko-tao-day-2-and-ko-phangan\/index.php"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"ko-tao-day-2-and-ko-phangan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2002\/12\/28\/ko-tao-day-2-and-ko-phangan\/index.php","title":{"rendered":"ko tao day 2.. and ko phangan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>sleep was difficult tonight in the bungalow.  after falling asleep, i was woken up by a crunching sound.  it was LOUD and would not stop.  i finally turn on the lights&#8230; to see the hugest cockroach of all time.  great.  it was on a shelf, so i had no way of stepping on it, so i just had to let it keep crunching away.  luckily, my bed has mosquito netting all around it, so i tucked the netting around my whole mattress so no roaches could attack. yikes!<\/p>\n<p>i wake up in the morning to a crazy sound that&#8217;s coming from all directions.  it keeps starting, stopping, ad echoing from all sides. it takes me a while to figure it out, but it turns out that it is the crowing of hundreds of roosters coming from all sides of the island. what a way to be woken up!  <\/p>\n<p>let me tell ya about the inside of my bungalow.  there&#8217;s a bed, covered w\/ pink frilly mosquito netting and about 2 feet of space between the bed and the wall&#8230; and that&#8217;s pretty much it.  this bungalow is TINY!  the whole thing is built out of sticks and plywood and really looks like if you hit a wall, the whole thing would disintegrate into a pile of rubbish.  then there is a door that leads to the bathroom.  the weird thing about bathrooms here, is that the whole bathroom is also a shower.  so basically, the toilet and sink are there in the shower w\/ you. technically (although i have no idea why you would) you could shower while on the toilet, or while brushing your teeth at the sink.  also, no hot water. only cold.  did i mention that the toilet has no flusher? doh!<\/p>\n<p>after waking up i take diving lesson number 2.  we go in a super shallow part of the ocean and practice the basic skills.  very easy and quick.  no fish yet.. that&#8217;s next time.  even though the sky is overcast, the ocean is still sooo nice and warm!  awesome!<\/p>\n<p>later, i take one last moped ride, and then head for the ferry.  i take the ferry to kho phangan cause that&#8217;s where i&#8217;m gonna meet up w\/ jamie, tom, and their friends.  the ferry ride is fine and soon i&#8217;m on the next island.  i go looking for &#8220;mr chicken&#8221;, the restaurant where i&#8217;m gonna meet them and end up running into them elsewhere. turns out there is no mr. chicken.  oops!  so lucky then that i saw them.  if i had ended up going to this island and not meeting them, that would have really sucked.<\/p>\n<p>now it&#8217;s POURING!  it&#8217;s really really coming down. the roads are turning into rivers and it just looks like a mess outside&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>-v<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sleep was difficult tonight in the bungalow. after falling asleep, i was woken up by a crunching sound. it was LOUD and would not stop. i finally turn on the lights&#8230; to see the hugest cockroach of all time. great. it was on a shelf, so i had no way of stepping on it, so &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/archives\/2002\/12\/28\/ko-tao-day-2-and-ko-phangan\/index.php\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ko tao day 2.. and ko phangan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}