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This book is the cumulative knowledge gained through living in Thailand for eight years and traveling on a budget. It contains complete itinerary with logistics of a trip from Bangkok to the southernmost Thai island of Koh Lipe and then up along the Andaman coast and crossing over the Kra Isthmus and out onto the Gulf of Thailand. It contains notes on Chang and Samet and other islands. It is a kit in the sense that it tells you how to go about things, such as outfitting a hut with lights on the porch and how to avoid the rip-offs that can occur. Thousands of bits of pieces making up tips for travel in Thailand. While written by a budget traveler, it is also of value to the high-end traveler, who can use this kit to explore less commercial areas and as a guide to specific locations. It is not a mere listing of locations or a standard tourist guide that while good, often leaves tourists staring at a hundred places and not able to decide easily an accommodation or a restaurant. This is a ‘How to Guide,’ written by a guy who has stayed on islands many times, for up to eight weeks straight. He knows how to get what you want and how to take your trip to a higher level. Jack Wily, the author, is currently traveling in Thailand and will support you through email or guide services, if you desire, while you are here in Thailand. He might be convinced to give out his cell number. Jack is the author of a number of fiction books and stories. This particular book can be found on Amazon for 14.99 plus any related Amazon shipping charges. If you order directly from Jack, he will knock a dollar off the price and depending on location in America pick up the shipping charge or a percentage of it. The book will be shipped immediately on PayPal verification and probably it will arrive within 48 hours. Drop an email to Island of Sand Publications at islandofsand@yahoo.com if you would like a copy of the book, and after you have purchased the book, or if you have any questions. Your copy will be new and untouched by human hands ... except for the people packaging it that is. If you live outside the contiguous U.S. and wish a copy of the book, please email me for applicable shipping charges or order from Amazon. While I sit on the edge of the sea, I see a lot of hotel people walking by who are paying up to twenty times my cost per night, and while I, too, travel that way at times, I know and sometimes hear them say ... ‘We should try that sometime,’ and I wanted to tell them how and how trouble-free this kind of vacation can be, and that, along with my love of the sea, islands, and sky is what motivated me to write this book. Hope to see you out there ... and you know ... I just might.

This blog contains-buried on the Island of Sand in a treasure chest-five threads that can be separated out by clicking on the labels: Writing Craft, The Bazarre Tale of Golem L. Window-Island of Sand, The Non-Fiction Version of Island of Sand, Thailand Travel, and a writer's Journal. The chest itself is located not at the end of the rainbow but under its arc on Elephant Island. I buried it there. In front of the huts. The rest of the skeleton ha ha matey... I'll never tell. By the way, if you would like a paperback copy of my guide ... Thailand Travel Kit send me an email at islandofsand@yahoo.com and for those of you in the contiguous United States I will ship direct for about 13.99 (California, will inform if shipping cost exceeds limit for some states) Paypal available.


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Monday, June 29, 2009

At Some Point cHarLie Would Shut Down Golem...

Al Qaeda guano threatened the advancement of civilization and tried to bring people under the iron yoke of fundamentalist Islam. CHarLie was plotting to kill a good chunk of civilization off entirely. He figured the only one who could stop him would be the rightful owner of the body whose mind he now occupied; read Golem. Golem represented somewhat of a problem. CHarLie knew that Golem, no matter what his opinions on government might be, would never acquiesce to the annihilation of as many people as CHarLie thought would die. Already he was lying to Golem, telling him the numbers would be in the hundreds of millions. CHarLie thought the final results would be counted in billions. The amount of cyanide (At this time he was not sure if it would be cyanide or the final version of the bird flu virus.) he was planning on using was much greater than Golem knew. The mixture itself had an effect of enhancing the killing power of the cyanide gas emitted, causing it to disperse more and to be more readily absorbed into the human body. CHarLie had not told Golem the whole story. CHarLie’s spreadsheet told him the number would go from millions to billions. The question was how many billions. For years now people had thought about the effect of nuclear conflict — a conflict that might now be necessitated by Al Qaeda. In a surprise twist as many or more might be killed on a New Year’s Eve without the fission of a single atom of uranium. Golem had to be kept shielded from the facts.
At some point CHarLie would shut down Golem and take over the operation all together; he even thought that Golem might shut himself down, half insane with the existence of a second personality and planning such a murderous scheme; complicit in the endeavor, yet not able to carry it out to yield maximum results.
CHarLie was capable of carrying the plan to fruition. CHarLie would take over when the time was right. He would be the strong one. For now, he needed Golem. Probably he would always need him because it was in Golem’s mind that he existed. Golem had created an entrance for him in the beginning, consciously or subconsciously, as an outlet for his anger, but in the end had been unable to stop his creation from taking over his mind. At some point Golem would relinquish ultimate authority to CHarLie, but by that time Golem would be mad, incapable of exercising his own free will. Golem’s creation would take its creator by the hand and lead it to a place it did not want to go, and to do things it did not want to do. It would act on Golem’s emotions; carry out plans made in anger that might otherwise have been aborted. Golem had been pissed off at the world for its abuse of character and individuality. He, perhaps, wanted to kill for revenge, but there would be questions asked later about sanity and whether or not Golem, in the last months before the second coming, or something resembling it, was any longer in control of events. In actuality, he would not be in control of events months before the atrocity “he” was to commit. A plea of insanity would apply when the time came for justice. He would probably be the most insane man on the planet by that time. He would receive no punishment; only God could punish the CHarLies of this world. CHarLie was a creation of society that existed in someone’s mind, but never the less, CHarLie existed and was a result of sociological events in civilization. People had created CHarLie. Golem had been created by God and had been a vessel for CHarLie to grow in. The Devil finds ways to do its work. People’s actions affect the lives of others. Each interaction between people changes the people involved and future events. The people who have been changed go on to change others. In the end we affect each other. CHarLie was the result of the actions of many people. He was created by society as a whole. Society would have to deal with the consequences. God works in strange ways, say some. The Devil works in concrete ones.

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