I don't know, I think they sanitized the image of a Turkish prison in Midnight Express. That movie all by itself made me never want to be there. Gettin hit on the soles of your feet with a cricket bat ain't no picnic.

The cane is a pretty good deturant I tell ya. I would ask people over there, what about this and what about that like wearin alot of flashy clothes and watches and such make you a target? or being in a way shady, I mean way shady bar with money is that a problem? They would get a real solumn look and say" the cane, people don't want the cane" a pretty good deturant for me.

Other parts of S.E.Asia are far worse in their treatment of prisoners. I bet ya don't get your phone call in Sarawak or Kalamantan or some other small island in Indonesia. Oooooooo no thanks.

Another goofy S.E. Asia story, I was staying at a hotel in Kota Kinabalu, up on the tip of Borneo over looking the South China Sea. I was a international road dog so I drank at super human levels everyday. So I have a meeting way down in the jungles of Borneo (you can guess the industry) at a plant that was built in the middle of the rain forest. The plant grew from 400 to 5600 in under 18 months. They actually had to build a city across the way in the jungle to house the employees. So I had to go there, so in true form I drank all night with a bunch of Aussie "Ex-Pats" living on a sailbaot. I get to the room take a shower and get in a private car sent by the plant. I am hungover/still drunk whatever, it was about 105 degrees, about 150% humidity and 20 minutes in the a/c breaks. Shit, of all the luck. So now I am feelin real hot sweaty queezy you name it. Oh yea it is a 4+ hour drive over and around mountains, valleys, cliffs, gorges all the perils of roads washed out, rock slides, goats.
So about 3 hours in I say man can we stop?my stomach rumbling, I am sweatin like a whore in church, I smell the Bourbon seepin out of me, man those were the days.....not. He says just over the hill, just over the hill. Now I haven't seen anything but one ox drawn cart in two hours so I am thinkin what could be over the next hill. Some hut on the side of this dirt road(which should not automatically exclude it as a choice) after tellin me another couple of times of the hill, there it was A FRIGGIN KFC, a Damn Kentucky fried chicken in the middle of a jungle in Borneo, no shit. I was saved by the Cornel himself, but not so fast young Jedi, Remeber that a bathroom was in my immidiate future so I thought I order a box o bird and take the bathroom break after ordering.
The bathroom was of corse of the Muslim persuation, a hole in the floor with two tile set in mortar on either side of the whole, a bucket of water with a ladel in it for cleaning up, thats it! I mean that's f'n it. So I amnage to navigate that tricky event only to grab my box o bird and jump in ht e car to continue. I open the box and it looked like 2 drumettes or Buffalo wings and a wad of unlevened bread. needless to say they don't get their supplies from the same place as us here in the states.
Anyways, just ramblin on a sat buzz

Tex

grow some of the local seed there remy , its what works the best , youll find your seeds wont fair aswell with the climate , different hours etc ... heat is not a problem for gunja , it is very much at home in th e hot/wet tropics ...

[ehonda187]

I enjoy'd the reading very much!!! thanks texas kid

[Hashmasta-Kut]

ya tex good readin'

[myrth]

thailand....ah, the memories...such good food...such beautiful women...such a painful penicillin shot...

-myrth

[tragic1]

I would vote no on carrying seeds into Thailand.I have a friend who is from there and he has now moved back and He said don't even think of brining anything with you into Thailand. He said since he left and rerturned{about 4 years} that they have become even stricter with drug laws.

Just remeber this could be you


Hey TK thanks for the great stories. You sound like a pretty well traveled guy.

I've been around the world a few times. From my early 20's there was a period of six years that I averaged 275 days a year outside the United States. Mainly I traveled in South America and South East Asia, a little in Europe, anywhere they were cuttin down forest at a lightning pace.

200,000 flight miles accumulated a year and it would have been more if ya counted all the crazy single engine death trap planes or DC-9's with actual chickens and goats on it. Their computer system was down.hehe

Didn't have to pay US taxes during those years which was very very nice plus I lived on a 6 figure expense account so I never spent my own money.

Oh, the good ol days

Tex

[Growdoc]

If you need seeds in thailand send me a PM... the seeds will be there

GrowDoc

[remy2584]

thanks for the advice. and texaskid, thanks for the melodramatic truth about the possible punishments of carrying my seeds through the airport. yeah, i'll find dank ass seeds there. however, i'm still gonna mail my seeds over there though. you guys are great. i can't thank you enough.