My life that once was… Traveling South East Asia ...

2009-07-08 09:41:57 来自: 如影流岚(从今开始豆瓣)

This story is from Lingo——a cafe near Renmin square where they organize English conner activities everyday. This article is written by Paul who is the manager and cooperator of Lingo, a very young and nice guy.

i learned a lot from this funny story and i am willing to share with you all. The chinese translation is not good enough and you can try to make a better one.


once was… Traveling South East Asia (5 part story)

During my university days I used to travel between semesters, for about 4 months at time. When I was 20 I had just sold my first house and some cash that I was determined to spend because I was young and did not really care too much about saving for my retirement. I decided to go on a trip to South East Asia with two friends Mike a concreter and Strongy a cabinetmaker. Our plan was to fly from Auckland to Bangkok and just have fun, no direction just go with no plan
Arriving at 11pm in Bangkok finding a hotel was the first problem, from here we traveled to Pattaya, then to Koh Samet a small island that is infested with diseased Dogs, My friend Mike found this the hard way when he had a motor cycle crash on the island. Actually after the crash he was fine it was only when he decided to do burnouts in a pile of rubbish he really felt the pain. His foot ended up getting infected and we then had to take him to hospital on the main land where he spent a week resting. He said to me and Strongy you guys must go on don’t wait for me come on the way back from Cambodia to pick me up.
Strongy and me then booked a bus from Pattaya to Cambodia to visit the town, which is famous for Angkor Wat, the famous temples in Cambodia. We where warned about this bus trip as it took 10 hours to travel less than 100km and they said your head will hit the roof of the bus many times during the trip. We thought it would be fun and an experience, what can I say it was definitely an experience, the bus trip brought us many experiences as the bus in front actually broke down while traveling across a bridge and ended up in the river. The road was like driving over the moon, and the stop for a snack where Strongy bought a bag of crickets and a bag of BBQ cockroaches for dinner.
We got to the hotel we where supposed to stay at looking like we had just been rolling through dirt, and then got offered to take us to go hunting for snakes where we caught one in the river and had for dinner a BBQ snake, these experiences I will never forget and is only the beginning but the most important feeling I will never forget is the feeling of freedom for adventure, who knows the next destination or the next people to meet or the next story to tell, The feeling to look out the window of a bus and not know what is next for the journey….
To be continued the journey through Cambodia and down to the full moon Party in the south of Thailand.

我曾经的生活...东南亚之旅 （故事共5部分）
我在读大学的时候，经常在学期之间的假期里出去旅游，约4个月时间。当我20岁时，我卖了我的第一套房子，我决定花掉这些钱，因为当时我还小，没想过要存退休后的养老金。
我决定和我的两个朋友Mike，一个混凝土工人和Strongy，一个家具木工去东南亚旅游。我们的计划是从奥克兰飞往曼谷，只是为了好玩，没有任何方向，任何计划。
我们晚上11点抵达曼谷，当时找酒店便成了第一个问题，我们从这里出发，前往帕塔亚，然后到沙湄岛，这个岛到处都是患病犬。我的朋友Mike发现这很艰难，因为当时他遭遇了摩托车祸。车祸后他感觉还好，只是当他决定在一堆垃圾中踮起脚尖跳的时候，他真的感觉到了疼痛。他的脚最终被感染了，于是我们带他去医院，他在休息了一个星期。他对我和Strongy说：你们两个一定要继续走下去，不要等到我，到柬埔寨然后过来接我。
于是Strongy和我叫了一辆巴士从帕塔亚前往柬埔寨去参观，那里有著名的寺庙吴哥窟。我们被事先告知这次路途的艰辛，因为他用了10个小时却走了不到100公里的路，他们说，你们的头将一直碰到车的顶部。我们想，这将是一次有趣的经历，怎么说这也绝对是次经历了，因为前面的巴士在过桥的时候发生故障最终掉到河里。这次路途就感觉是像在月球上行驶，在小吃站停了一会，Strongy买了一袋蟋蟀和烤蟑螂做晚餐。
我们到了酒店，我们看上去像刚刚在泥土里打滚一样。然后我们去猎蛇，我们在河里抓到了一条，然后烤了当晚餐，这些经历我永远也不会忘记，并仅仅是一个开端，最重要的是自由冒险的感觉，谁知道下一个目的地是哪里或下一个人遇见的人是谁或者下一个故事又是什么。看着巴士的窗外，不知道旅程的下一步是什么...
敬请期待下期穿越柬埔寨并到泰国南部的满月派对的旅程。