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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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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The monster on Elephant Island

A thousand times Golem has walked down the beach in the morning considering the monster that lives beneath the waves. The Thais think of it as a ghost, but Golem knows it is not a ghost; he knows this because the thing that he opened the door for several years ago resides in his mind. He has even named this entity CHarLie. CHarLie talks to him and tells him things. Of course, this verbosity is related to that most un-publishable tome that he has even given the name “The Bizarre Tale of Golem L. Window” —a story so ugly and hideous that no publisher can ever wade through far enough to see the beauty of the outcome, a beauty so apparent to its author, yet so murky and lost and muddled, containing half insane rantings, and at times, sunken to a depth that most don’t want to submerge to; and, so critical of certain aspects of present day society that many Americans see it as a sort of treason.
Golem as Golem now, not Jack, for the moment or Charls, chaffs his callused feet against the wooden floor over and over and hears that same scraping sound that he heard just before CHarLie emerged from his haven in Golem’s mind and made his appearance on the balcony — and went a long ways toward what it was that Golem found on an island that drove him insane. Of course, this happens somewhere around page five hundred in the crypt and the reader would have to see chapter two to know that Golem had found something that drove him insane. But, since that story is so unwieldy and long I will only show you bits and pieces of this thing, at present, that really happened, but is so bizarre as to make it hard to fathom—the idea of the monster on Elephant Island, the devil named CHarLie.

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