Things Get A Little Weird On The Ride To Phuket Town [Season 1, Episode 28] - a podcast by Sheila Dee & Evo Terra - Third World Survivors
from 2015-07-21T18:00
Full Show Script
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EVO: We were in a bit of a funk last week, as you likely noticed.
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SHE: And the word "funk" is being generous. We were getting downright depressed.
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EVO: So to get out of the funk, and to keep our promise of new scenery, we hopped on a bus for a five-ish hour ride down to Phuket.
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SHE: See? We're in a better mood already.
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EVO: Gill and Yince, the names we mentioned in that last clip, are two of the dozen or so expats we've met over the last 2 months we've spent in Ranong, Thailand. They meet as a big group every week -- twice a week, actually -- for beer, food, and conversation. OK, mostly beer. And food. The conversation is interesting, as they're all speaking English with a host of different accents. Currently, we're the only American accents in the bunch.
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SHE: Our original intention was to bring you some of the interviews with those guys -- the Ranong Throng as Evo calls them. But we're pretty sure at least some of them are on the lam. No international incidents, remember?
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EVO: But getting back to our five-ish hour bus ride to Phuket: As the bus made its way through the northern part of the island -- Phuket is both a town and an island -- Sheila had this observation:
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SHE: Hey, you can't say you were not entertained. And not only by what was inside the bus, but what you saw outside.
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EVO: Bizarre advertising aside, Phuket was really, really great. Three days of glorious sunshine, fantastic beaches of both the crowded and hidden variety. And no rain.
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SHE: Normally, I'd chastise you for being redundant by saying sunshine and no rain, but I'm letting it slide. Because we had three glorious days of sunshine and no rain! It's a good thing we didn't move to Portland. Like I told you.
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EVO: But there's one more thing we saw as we drove through Phuket that we need to talk about.
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SHE: It'll be the last clip of this shortened show. Shorter shows are much, much easier on Evo, which helps his mood. Which, clearly, helps mine.
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EVO: Our mood was also helped by a couple of outside factors: I had two articles published, one on TravelSmith's blog (disclosure: they are a sponsor of ours) and one on T
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