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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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Sunday, September 6, 2009

Stephen King

Okay, here it goes again. My take on Stephen King. I mean most of us fans are still waiting for another Pet Cemetery, another Needful Things. What we see now is a lot of wordy things that don't really include the social commentary and the intelligence of his earlier writing. I mean ... somehow in his quest to write for this new society, he has lost his ability to or has chosen not to write like he did before. He is a horror writer and has been criticised for that. I always looked at him for craft and story telling and like he once said ... he knew his craft ... but i think this new society of ours is taking the spirit out of life. I mean ... you cant't just write and be a terrific writter anymore. You have to directly address ... some created concern of multimedia. I mean, I wouldn't want to write for those people. Yeah, it's 1984, it got here late, but it arrived. It kills off creativity. I mean now we smoke just to stay alive. We've got all these government heads telling us of the perfect society that awaits us. But, now it doesn't look so perfect. Well. I somehow am reluctant to blame King for what America has become. I mean his books were rational. I think his failure to write more are due to kingpins in Washington over the last twenty years who have been anxious to suck off taxes for their own 'polite' endeavors. I don't think it is his fault on the whole. It is more like the weight of the world on one man's shoulders. I mean will I buy 'Under the Dome' in January? I might, but it won't be because I am looking for a King classic. I think he wrote those already. I think, he should write more of the same ... or just move on. Ain't no harm in moving on. If I had that kind of money ... I think I would spend some time on the beach. I would get back to my soul. Because this idea of horror books not cutting literature ... well ... it doesn't wash with me. I think the guy cut it damn fine. He gets in trouble when he starts splitting his genres. I think he should get back to those indian cemeteries and reincarnated zombies and let the good times roll ... please?

Thailand Travel Kit: Huts, Trip Itineraries, and Tips for the Budget or Upscale Tourist by a Thailand Insider who has lived in Thailand for 8 years by Jack B. Wily ... see you in Thailand ...

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