4 months, 4 New Year celebrations 🙃

Here's what's been going on...

• Got my Bareboat Skipper sailing certificate in Phuket

• Celebrated Thai New Year (Songkran 💦 🔫)

• Explored Phuket, southern islands, and the Gulf of Thailand

Thailand 🇹🇭

If you’re like me - you’ve undoubtedly heard time and time again from friends, social media, etc. about how dope Thailand is.

Well…

Here it is one more time - Thailand is fuckin dope 😆

I mean honestly, there is so much to love about this country…

• Bangkok is a top-tier city

  • Best food night markets I’ve ever been to

  • Cheap, delicious street food everywhere

  • Beautiful buddhist temples

  • Unreal shopping malls

  • Crazy party scene

• Best islands/beaches in the world (and A LOT of them)

• Thai massage - enough said

• Super spiritual (94% of the population is buddhist)

• Among the best food in the world (same level as Italy & Mexico for me)

• Deep, rich culture (only SEA country never to be colonized)

• Some of the happiest & most peaceful people in the world (similar to Balinese)

• Ohh yeah and legal weed 🌿 😆

Of course there are a few downsides anywhere you go, so here’s a few things I experienced over the past month…

• It’s hot AF - but there was a record breaking heatwave in SEA 🥵

• The traffic in Bangkok is absurd. Not like Indonesia/Vietnam motorbike craziness, but many cars and I guess only a few major highways for a super spread out city

• Jellyfish. As beautiful as all the islands and beaches were - the jellyfish around Phuket and Krabi were pretty intense.

• Well this may be personal but…no surf 🌊

I could talk for hours about the past month but instead here’s a few photos that may push you over the edge to buy a ticket…

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WORK

Had a nice 10-day break while getting my sailing certificate.

While it was great to have a break off work, it didn’t feel like a break because the sailing course was SUPER intense. It was up at the crack of dawn, classroom, practical, sailing, and then when 5pm hit and we anchored/docked, we went straight to the marina/bar for beers for 3 hours 😆 then back to the cabin to try and study for an hour drunk before passing out. Rinse and repeat.

So yeah by the time I was done with ‘break’, I felt like I needed a vacation before getting back into work.

I dabbled with 5G internet on the boat…and it made me think - if I had the dough - I would 100% get one of these catamarans and hook up a Starlink to that bitch and be calling in from the Maldives/Ments/etc.

PROJECTS

SURF

Waves of the month...

There were so many contenders this month: Basque Country, Portugal, West Oz, Shipstern, Padang Padang, but in honor of the GOAT retiring here’s a minute and a half reminder that Kelly surfing at 90 will be better than you will ever be…

Where to go in May...

Canoa, Ecuador

CONTENT

Surf

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