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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, July 13, 2009

Israel Palistine Evil and Greed

I am trying to understand the situation on the ground. I guess it must mean that if a person builds enough houses on someone else's land that they become the rightful owners. If I build a den in your house and occupy it someday the house becomes mine. Interesting idea. Another idea would be to evict those who build the den and to move towards a fair solution. I remember running into a Persian girl on the streets of Tokyo and telling her I wish there were peace and she telling me - wouldn't America love that. I thought she was hardened for war and that I meant peace sincerely, but now I think the reason we don't have peace is because peace is not wanted. It is given lip service, every few years (in the last fifty or so) some peace proposal is shot off in space - then said to be a mistake. Then they say we tried to make peace but those Arabs keep attacking and another decade goes by with war. America sells weapons to Israel, who if given half a chance would have wiped out and taken over a much wider area of the middle east by now. But not only does America sell them weapons and take the cash - it then forbids them to end the war. "IF" and a very big IF someone thought Israel was in the right then hey why doesn't America let them end it? Of course ending it like that would mean that weapons were no longer needed and the profits from them no longer going into politicians pockets and pockets of corporations. Therefore, peace is not an initiative. We draw it out as long as possible and people suffer over decades pain and loss of life more horrible than in any one decisive battle - as if that battle was even necessary. I remember thinking that Arab girl didn't want peace, but now I see that peace is not the issue here. The issue is an economic one. Israel pours money into American military corporations, gives money to American politicians; every time a missile is fired money is accrued at the cost of civilian lives. And no one suggests that a new line be drawn closer to the UN map at the end of the World War II that was closer to half the current size of Israel but had a boundary that could only suggest the way it would end up. How about a line in the middle? No one would ever suggest that would they. Access to the sea for both countries. An easily defined border. Or how about a little land from other bordering nations. It isn't too much to ask and a gesture towards peace. I think with the Internet people are coming to see the goodness in all nations... the every day lives and quests of individuals, civilization... the fantasy evil ingredient is really just greed. Isn't it?

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