tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85425862226464730742024-08-31T06:08:32.735-07:00Donovan Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10693287964006902475noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8542586222646473074.post-29206662212888219902008-09-04T03:13:00.000-07:002008-09-04T03:25:17.564-07:00Current Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA<div><br /></div><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPCruqONObRAXswkJAkjw4BEWa8D9GPO2cNdNYKWBHKObDsPk5xV40KbZp36KmdeLVYcrwlmKINpttjjhjqwkbqaAy9yHHAmyZJpYjyaPK13-36qwwGFzwxa5rsKbDidrPgudbHF1BqMg/s320/ETrex.gif" style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242109742419947650" /><div>REI is quickly becoming a second home for Gabriel and me. It's one of the few places on earth that you can purchase the bug-annoyant Deet in a 98% concentration. My big purchase for the day was a Garmin eTrex GPS receiver. If you know me at all, you know that I have a terrible sense of direction. I get lost driving home from the Burbank airport - a drive I've made well over ten times. The prospect of adventuring around areas I've never been before, with street signs written in languages whose alphabets I do not know, makes me a little anxious. My hope is that at with a GPS receiver, I can mark my home base in each city, and if I get hopelessly lost, I can always follow my digital bread crumbs back to my mosquito net and sleep sheet.</div><div><br /></div><div>I leave for Bangkok, Thailand on Friday (Tomorrow!) where I'm hoping to avoid the large-scale anti-government protests. This should be an adventure, apparently the government just declared <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4402748.stm">martial law</a>!</div>Donovan Keithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10693287964006902475noreply@blogger.com2