Secret Beach!
Its funny how things in life can change so fast! A few months ago I was in Tokyo Japan freezing my thin skinned ass off, and dreaming of hot sunny weather. Well my dreams came true.
Burma has to be the hottest place I have ever been. I went to Burma at the worst month possible (the hottest month). I love the heat and have spent my days in some pretty intense heat. I thought the time when I was in Jordan and it was around 125F or 51C was pretty freaking hot. People were actually cooking food in the ground; with no fire… it was that hot. But for some reason probably the 99% humidity Burma has beaten that by far.
So after sweating my ass off I am now heading for the shade under a palm tree on a secret beach in Thailand. I will spend the next 2 weeks spear fishing and relaxing on the beach. Its not just the heat that is making me take a little break. I have come to a point where I am running out of money and need to start working. I have met hundreds of travelers over the last few years and at some point they all run out of money and need to head home and work. I am finding that I am no different. So I will be heading back to Los Angeles and getting back to producing TV. I feel life is like a road; some people’s life is pretty straight forward, with not a lot of turns or forks in the road. But my life or at least this patch of road sure does have tons of forks, curves and bumpy parts. So with that… who knows what lye’s ahead around the next turn!
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I wasn’t sure what to expect when coming to Burma. I didn’t really know much about the country other then what I have seen on CNN and the BBC. Last September the shit it the fan, a political protest turned into a bloody riot leaving countless people dead. It was started over the cost of fuel (which is still the main complaint from the local people I talked to). The US and other western countries placed a boycott on Myanmar (Burma). Burma was now cut off from the world, but this plan quickly backfired on the west. The red devil from the north (China) came to the rescue. China doesn’t necessarily seem to be just helping; they actually are taking over like they did in Tibet some 40 years ago. China is buying up countries all over the world and pumping money into them to help fuel China’s communist rule on the world. Thousands of Chinese immigrants are being relocated in Burma to start up business and run Burma. The word on the street is the Burmese people will slowly be weeded out like they are trying to do in Tibet. There have been reports that in Tibet women will go to the dentist for normal dental work and end up waking up with their tubes tide (so they cant have babies). More people need to speak out about what China is doing with Tibet and now Burma! The violation of human rights in this day and age is fucking outrageous! Here are a few photos from Burma. I didn’t spend much time there due to the fact that most tourist sights have been built and maintained by slave/forced labor. It was hard for me to walk around carelessly taking pictures while people were being forced to clean the path that I walked on. Here are a few different 
Finally after 1 week, 2 passports and one blacklist I have finally been granted access into Myanmar (Burma). I am looking forward to getting out of Bangkok. Bangkok is a lot like Las Vegas, it’s a cool place for 1 or 2 days, but after a week here I am ready to jump out my 7th floor window.
