picture of the climbing crew by recent climbing partner and adventure extraordinaire: Carl Nagy
I just got back from a four day weekend trip to Tonsai. Tonsai is considered part of Krabi, part of the mainland, but like Railey, the peninsula can only be reached by long tail boat. It happens to have some of the greatest climbing in the world and therefore attracts climbers from around the globe. It just so happened that I ran into another Flaggstaffian there and got to gush about Martanne's and other great eats in Flagstaff and northern Arizona. His climbing partner, a girl from Tucson, happened to be at the same Ratatat show as I in September as well. It trips me out. It's such a small world and the people who are moving around traveling make this world seem even smaller. I've realized that we are all constantly on the move and the "travelers and teachers group" make this planet seem tiny. We just move around with one another and get ideas to go check out new places from each other and after awhile people are running into the same people at different places/different times, but connecting a web of contacts as they explore. This girl told me over the weekend that there was no reason to rush exploring and that she lived by a sailing quote that was something like: you don't abandon wind to go search for wind. She interpreted this to mean that you would know when it was your time to go and when you should just ride the wind and see where it takes you. I've found magic in Thailand. We will see where the wind beckons me to set sail.
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