The Link Above ... and then on to the Blog

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, August 30, 2009

Dinosaur Cake

All the while I have been writing this blog I get these advertisements that are computer generated and usually it has been an add for Scientology. I mean, I don't know a lot about Scientology, but I wasn't that keen on all the adds for it. The other day I wrote this weird piece about bananas or something and a comparison of Obama and Fox news. I won't get into how bananas fit into the equation here, but now Scientology adds have disappeared and I've got the following ... one for meeting Thai girls ... one for the best Obama t-shirt ever and one for hotels. I guess now we need Obama, a banana, and a Thai girl in a hotel. I don'know, maybe Mrs. Obama wouldn't like it ... okay ... okay ... forget it already... Oh yeah, I almost forgot ... I got this ad for dinosaur cake so I guess dinosaurs are coexisting with people as I write. Either that or it must be some pretty old dinosaur cake...

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Saturday, August 29, 2009

Life's Like That

The other day I was laughing about this teacher I had in school. His name was Mr. Fish and that alone brought him some jive. He taught auto repair. He was good at auto repair and his heart was in teaching, but he hadn't been a teacher long. He used to tell us about left-handed treads and how you had to turn the bolt to the left to tighten it and a group of us ... pretty near the whole class ... would say - is that right ... and he'd say 'no, turn it to the left' and that's how the classes generally went. Then later in college I had this date where I was hoping to get in her pants of course and somehow I told her about this teacher I had in high school. She listened to my story and then told me the guy was her cousin and that he had quit teaching because of this stuff. That was about fifteen minutes into the date and it was over by then already. Thirty-five years later ... yesterday ... I pulled my Honda Fino off to the side of the rode because the right mirror was loose in its socket. I sat there for about five minutes. It had come off in my hand as I tried to tighten it. I was cursing the Thais (who do have this tendency to not tighten bolts or just put things together to make them work for a bit)for having shoved the mirror into these stripped threads and then tightening the lock-nut down. A week or so later after driving around without a mirror on the passing side, I pulled into a shop and the guy took the mirror and twisted it to the left and screwed it back in. Karma ... whatever it is ... life's like that.

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Friday, August 28, 2009

Showing Character in Writing

I am reading this book ... A Bitter Harvest ... by Anne Rule. I don't know how someone can write a sentence like 'She liked the guy because her own husband would not replace the kitchen floor' ... I mean the husband in this case was a surgeon. This woman was in a bad marriage etc., but what sort of gets me is how a writer can write a sentence like this without considering the sense of it. I mean does anybody expect a surgeon making a couple hundred grand a year to spend days in the operating room and then one day figure that he will replace the kitchen floor himself ... I mean would you even want your surgeon spending his time repairing a floor? It drives me wild reading books like this. I mean I realize that the book is sort of a representation of fact, but I like books that tell me what the writer thinks, that give me ideas. I want to know why the thing happened. I want the rationale ... the nuts and bolts are okay, but I want to see the whole machine. I want to get inside the thing and take it to pieces. But that's not to say that it isn't a fascinating tale of a psycopath. And it turns out the surgeon is actually an anesthesiologist ... so I guess maybe he could replace a floor ...

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Thursday, August 27, 2009

The Real Plan

I mean let's keep this guy alive. They shot Kennedy in the head and I can tell you they are waiting to shoot this guy too. He didn't pay off his health taxes or something so there out there waiting to put a bullet in his head. I promise you that.

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Who has the Bigger Banana ... Obama or Fox?

Anyway, I know there are a lot of politicians that are out there that are like the dinosaurs. They sort of eat everything they get their paws on. Mostly it seems like they like a lot of cash. Some of them even put it in the freezer for safe keeping. Some of them sock it away into a second or third home. I mean there is a million ways to hide money. Some of them just give out contracts hand over fist for things nobody wants. Then they spend their money on prostitutes and cigarettes. Then they vote to keep people from smoking in bars. I mean they don’t even allow for bars that allow smokers. Their like so perfect that they can do stuff like that and almost get away with it even. And I for one don’t even care about the women thing and being unfaithful. I think that is for the most part between the politician and the wife or husband. It’s just I do care about what they do ... and this doesn’t seem to carry much weight. I mean they can steal all the money they want to as long as they are faithful to the wife and family ... uh ... I don’t get it. I mean you scrape off a million bucks for something you don’t know anything about and that is okay, but as soon as you give five hundred bucks to a prostitute the whole political world is after you. I mean probably about five or ten million guys pay a prostitute every night so why should this just be a crime if you are in D.C.? It looks to me like being a male politician has always meant wanting to put your dick someplace. By the way ... in case you don’t already know it ... I think Rooseveldt or one of them high-power guys was pretty famous for keeping a tape recorder under the bed. I mean there had to be some reason he was so keen on wanting to know what was going on in the bedroom. The thing that really gets me is that all these politicians are out there screwing women and then telling the rest of us about family ... that really pisses me off.
Of course it isn’t only politicians that piss me off. We also have these so called reporters on Fox that go on and on about Obama. They go out of their way I mean ... and all I have to say about that is it looks to me like it is a N word waiting to come out ... I mean this uppity niger has become the president ... all of this while they rant about racial topics in America. There’s one of them there that I just watch to see the moment when he freaks out and calls Obama a nigger. The real sad thing is that at heart this guy seems to think he is the all defender of the American way. It’s sort of like that. I mean if he did something else he might be a nice guy, but in the media he just comes across as not liking black people or African Americans. I really mean it though, I am just waiting for that day when he comes out and says he can’t stand Obama because he is black. At least that in my opinion would be the truth. He probably figures Obama has a bigger dick or something like that ... and you know what ... I think a tape measure would prove it...

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Politicians and Dinosaurs

I mean we coexist with politicians and get ripped off for medical care all the time. It’s like some of them die while they are giving their speeches or can’t find the microphone. Of course they’ve been there a long time too. Maybe their already dead. I mean we see a lot of them around, too ... and we know we have coexisted with them. God. Don’t we?

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People and Dinosaurs

There is a stegosaurus carved into the Angkor Watt shrine. Some say this is evidence of of the coexistence of people and dinosaurs ... I mean it does look like a stegosaurus, but then again us humans have made Jurassic Park and none of us has ever seen a dinosaur. I mean what if some aliens come here someday and watch Jurassic Park ... I mean ...they ... would really believe that we lived with the dinosaurs. Especially, if it was their first movie... I mean it’s pretty funny ... here are these people saying that because a dinosaur is carved into a shrine that people lived with dinosaurs. I mean it isn’t as if we don’t have dinosaurs all over the place now. It looks to me like we have more dinosaurs today than ever really existed. Which is kind of odd seeing how they don’t exist. I mean this really gets me. All this stuff about dinosaurs and kids falling all over the place to hear about them. I mean can’t you just see some guy finding a skeleton of a stegosaurus and carving it up there on the columns of the shrine? And then thousands of years later these Einsteins come along and claim that we lived with the dinosaurs. I mean I myself have had several conversations with stegosauruses and they all said naw ... we never saw any humans back then. They were fairly certain about it, too. It wasn’t as if they would have missed one. They were especially interested when I said that people walked on two legs. They thought we would have been hard to miss. They seemed to take an interest in it just in case they had missed a meal. Actually the idea that these things coexisted with people is pretty fascinating. I think it might be true. It seems to me it would explain some things. But more on that later.

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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Cover Copy

http://www.amazon.com/Thailand-Travel-Kit-Itineraries-ebook/dp/B002MKOQYC/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1251285090&sr=1-3

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Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Thailand Travel

I got this idea the last time i was on an island ... I seem to always ... be on an island ... so anyway ... I got this idea to write a book about traveling in Thailand. It's available on the Kindle now in digital form. The book should be out next week. Here's a link if you think you'd like to check it out.

http://www.amazon.com/Thailand-Travel-Kit-Itineraries-ebook/dp/B002MKOQYC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=digital-text&qid=1251262150&sr=1-1

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