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I am looking for someone who wants to go to Southeast Asia with me this fall. One of my best friends is living in Singapore, and I’ve decided to go over there for 3 weeks to visit her and travel around to Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and wherever else we think we might want to go. My Singapore friend wants to travel around with me as much as possible, but she won’t be able to take the entire 3 weeks off of work, so I’m in need of another travel companion for some mid-week adventures.

Here’s the plan so far: go to Southeast Asia for 3 weeks in October or November. Use Singapore as a kind of home base, since we’ll be able to stay at my friend’s huge apartment for free. Take a bunch of little trips around to nearby countries, destinations subject to change and open to suggestion. The main expense will be the plane tickets, because once we’re there, food and lodging will be super cheap. I’m planning on spending about $2,000* on the whole trip, cuz this is my big vacation of 2004.

(*Maybe more if I do my xmas shopping while I’m there.)

My ideal travel companion is anyone who is really enthusiastic about going to Southeast Asia. Or, really enthusiastic about going anywhere cool that they’ve never been before. Please be willing/able to do the following, as circumstances require: entertain and be entertained on the long-ass flight, drink, stay up late, play well with others, don’t be a retard about other cultures, shop, take pictures, eat weird things like exotic durian fruit that smells like rotten eggs, protect me from possible hijackers on buses (kidding....kind of), hike/climb stairs at temples and ruins, swim, lie on glorious beaches, haggle with shopkeepers and open air market vendors, use chopsticks, and travel light.

This is gonna be the trip of a lifetime. If you’ve ever considered going, or wanted to see Angkor Wat or the place where Angelina Jolie adopted her adorable Cambodian baby, carpe fucking diem, my friend!