Back in Bangkok!

Well I would just like to congratulate myself on a happy 9 month unemployment anniversary :) Yay! The poorer I get the happier I feel! Anyhoo - just arrived back in Bangkok after an overnight bus from Ko Lanta. Had a very chilled and relaxing 2 days at a Ko Lanta - island in Krabi Province. Stayed at a very reasonable resort, with Ana & her 2 mates. We stayed in cute Bamboo bungalows.. Basically all I did was walk on the beach, drink some beers, read my book, stuff my face with thai food and swim in the pool. The resort was conveniently located right on the beach, so it was just glorius sitting on my deck chair and chilling out. It was just what I needed before the final leg home.
Ana unfortunately is not doing too well and when I left was making her way to Phuket to a larger hospital after visiting the small local one on Ko Lanta. It looks as though the pain in her stomach might actually be a bleeding kidney or something else. I feel pretty guilty, as I was the last person to see her before she met her ill fate! I left her merrily chatting to some Thai dudes at the bar we were at, and then the next morning she looked like she been hit by a bus! It's still a mystery what happened... and she thinks she must have just fallen really hard, or been play fighting with the guys...She kept on harping on about Muay Thai that eve (!?).
Why do bad things happen when people come out with me? Am I a catalyst for trouble?
Saying that though - I was still pretty sober when I left, and the reason I left was because I didnt want to have a crazy night! Oh Ana... poor little gypsey :( here's wishing her a speedy recovery. We had a lovely time together just chatting and chilling out though, so I was very glad to see her none the less.
I am staying in Bangkok for one day, I arrived at 6am this morning and made my way to my hostel by bus - really I am starting to impress myself with my ability to navigate my way around foreign cities. I was the ONLY foreign person on the whole 30 min bus journey...living like a local :) So far my thai vocabulary includes: Hello/Good Bye, check please!, Thank you and NO problem!
My overnight bus journey to Bangkok was pretty cool - I slept pretty much the whole way, as I secured the last row of seats at the back of the bus. I just stretched out and had a nice nap. My nap was encouraged by some codeine laced painkillers which I found with delight in my bag. Yay for narcotics. Today one of my missions is to go and hunt for some valium - you can get it here cheap cheap, yippee! Flights from here onwards are going to be a breeze.
So this is the last of my journeys for a little while! I am going back to SA - hitting Jozi for a 30th birthday and catch up with mates... ZIDE you better be planning a big one. Then I am back in lovely exciting Port Elizabeth, St Francis and Hogsback for a few weeks for Christmas with the family.
I am planning my next destination now...South America! I have plenty to arrange because much has changed about this leg of my trip! I was orginally flying to Sau Paulo at the end of month to re-unite with my now EX Brazilian boyfriend, but that relationship sadly dissolved in the duration of my travels (get out the violins people, get them out). So now I need to go back to the drawing board - check my funds, make some new itinerary plans and set off on my own. A little heavier on the pocket it will be, a little more challenging not having a Portuguese/Spanish speaking partner but I am sure I will be much richer for the experience! I am just travelling until the last of my funds is up... I might not have very long in South America, and I am just going to see how far I can get with what I have left! Thats the PLAN for now - but this might change, God' knows every other plan I have had has changed this trip so far..
They say money cant buy you love, but looking around here in Bangkok - it seems to buy you pretty much close enough... Loving you long time from Bangkok.. Gypsy Regdelp signing out.