Jon the Traveller

Last-night – as my Facebook status suggested – I decided to brave the KSR and see exactly how my night would end up. It was rather messy, thanks to towers of beer and numerous shots of Sambuca, although I wasn’t alone in this endeavour, I had earlier met a couple of Canadian guys: Adam & Jay, who are in Thailand for 5 weeks or so, seeing all the major sites and generally after having a good time. Really sound guys, although Adam cannot handle his Sambuca! I’m positive they were trolling me with all the “Ey”, but I can’t really say anything, when every other word I speak is either a swear word or some form of colloquialism.

Best thing about the night was NOT ending up looking like a clown pants wearing freak at one with myself and some faux dreadlocks as I had suspected it could! There is something about the KSR that brings that out in people, and despite numerous visits, I am yet to understand what it is or why it has the effect it does. People who would otherwise be normal folks back home, suddenly think clown pants makes them more of a “genuine traveller”, dreadlocks confirm their status as a die-hard stoner and of course staying somewhere with others of this ilk makes them all part of the same community of non-conformist free spirits.  In reality they are just repeating what so many others have done before them in a spiral of self perpetuating cliché’s; However at least the rest of us know where our towel is!