It's now around 7.30 here, which means that it's been nearly 9 hours since I've seen another white skinned person!!

I'm in Ranong now, having spent the best part of 7 hours travelling up the west coast. I'l probably only stay tonight as there seems to be not much of a backpacker vibe here and my Thai is not nearly good enough to stay around too long. So the plan is this : Get up early tomorrow and go to Kaw Thung, which is the southernmost tip of Burma. I'll only stay for a few hours, as whatever visa thing I get doesn't allow me to go beyond the town limits. Then it's back here to Ranong and getting the first bus to Bangkok. It's a roughly 8 hours journey so I'll end up arriving in the wee hours of the morn so lads, if ye're in Bangkok, can ye let me know where y'all are staying so I know where to crash!

No real other story, as my last post was less than 24 hours ago and most of the time between has been spent on a bus or sleeping (and in some cases both simultaneously!!) Oh, one little tit-bit from the bus journey, we ended up going through 3 military checkpoints in the last two hours of the journey, which was kinda worrying. Maybe it has something to do with the man-hunt for a serial-killer that is happening in the south of the country these days........

Niall