Nearly a month...

until Thailand. I am excited. Not just for the fact that there is to be incredible climbing, and that with this trip I am admitting to myself another addiction that threatens to take over my being and find me longing for that 'other' life that I could have had, had I not gone to graduate school... not that I would take that back... but also because all of Asia is an unknown world to me, having only traveled in Europe and the South Pacific, and I am curious to observe the culture and the way of life in a place so different from my own. There are mountains here, too, although different kinds... behemoth limestone cliffs rising up from the sea as though they had sprung up from a different world far below. I have heard many wonderful things about Ton Sai, and I am excited to be able to float for awhile in a place such as this.