Part One follows him as he unclutters his life, while physically and mentally preparing to leave behind his family and friends, and everything he has ever known to travel and eat his way across Asia. It also covers the first two weeks of his journey following his antics on the infamous ‘Backpackers Ghetto’ Khasoan Road, and how he deals with the change of culture and scenery.
Luckily, there is a silver lining, he has convinced (with promises of untold riches, exotic delicacies, scantly clad females on deserted beaches, and the fact he's paying for everything) his older brother Gary to join him on the journey – so at least he has someone to carry all his stuff, and a supply of warm protein, just in case of an emergency. Gary offers his own form of ‘tactful’ insights as they awkwardly learn the lessons of trying to settle into a new routine in a foreign country.
Glen has previously visited twenty-nine different countries, and lived in Mexico City, Mexico for far too long for a pale skinned European. However, he soon realizes that they are completely and utterly unprepared for what they are about to face.
Glen Johnson's unique sense of humor (and the fact he’s a weirdo magnet) and unusual view of the world makes Living the Dream – Part One: Khasoan Road, Thailand unlike any other travel book you have ever read. Oh, and there might even be some useful tips about the country and culture you will be able to use if you are thinking of traveling to the same locations.
CONTENTS
Prologue – Deciding to Go
1. More About Me
LONDON, ENGLAND
2. Saying Goodbye
3. Flight AI-112 from London, Heathrow to New Delhi, India
4. Bollywood’s Finest
5. Wet Dog and Grumpy Guards
6. Piggyback Fight Anyone?
7. Flight AI-332 from New Delhi to Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok, Thailand
BANGKOK, THAILAND
8. Touchdown
9. Bartering
10. Black Market Organ Harvesters
11. Miss. Thailand in Hotel Paradise.
12. Rutting Season
13. Pushy
14. A Helping Hand
KHASOAN ROAD
15. Backpackers Ghetto
16. A Room with no View
17. Stalker
18. Tattoo, Tigers, and a Scorpion
19. A Very Nice Man
20. The Standing Buddha
21. Routine and Food
22. Wat Bowonniwet Vihara
23. Chasing Our Tails
24. The Smell of Death
25. Time to Move On
26. Gary’s Journal
About the Author
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102 colour photos taken by the author and his brother.
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SOI DOG
The Story Behind Asia’s Largest Animal Welfare Shelter – With 108 Colour Photos
UK USA
PLEASE BE AWARE: By purchasing this book you are helping! All the royalties from the sale of this ebook and paperback go directly to helping the animals at the Soi Dog Foundation. You ARE making a difference!
The Soi Dog Foundation is the largest animal welfare charity in Asia dealing with stray dogs and cats, located in the north of the province of Phuket and in Bangkok. It was co-founded in 2003 by Margot Homburg, a Dutch retiree, and John and Gill Dalley, who retired from England.
Soi Dog helps the homeless, neglected and abused dogs and cats of Thailand. They tirelessly work to end the dog meat trade throughout the region, and respond to animal welfare disasters and emergencies.
Soi Dog runs a shelter and rehoming center for over four hundred dogs (that’s growing daily) that have been abandoned or abused and subjected to sometimes terrible cruelty. Thousands more are treated for injury and disease every year by providing emergency and ongoing veterinary treatment for abused and neglected street dogs and cats. They also feed hundreds of dogs and cats who live in temples and other locations around the province of Phuket. They have also built a shelter in northern Thailand that holds over one and a half thousand dogs that have been rescued from the illegal dog meat trade. They also have a permanent clinic in Bangkok.
This book will give you an overview of the whole organization, and what they are striving to achieve and what they have achieved to date.
You will learn everything there is to know about Soi Dog, and the people who spend their lives helping the neglected dogs and cats of Thailand. People who have suffered immense personal injury in the pursuit of protecting the animals that have no voice, and who need someone to stand up for them.
You will meet the people who make Soi Dog possible, who volunteer their time and energy into the foundation. People who have drastically changed their lives in order to make a difference. You will read their stories and those of the animals that have been saved.
You will get a personal tour of the Soi Dog Foundation, and the day-to-day running of the Phuket facility, by the author Glen Johnson, who also goes out with rescue officers and follows the procedure of catching the stray dogs and returning them to the Soi Dog clinic to be sterilized.
Read the story of those who give their time and energy to save the animals of Thailand.
“Thank you for all the work you do for those who have no voice.”
Nicole Knapp – New Zealand
“You have left paw prints on our hearts.”
Paul & Janet
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Soi Dog Foundation
An Introduction to Soi Dog
John and Gill Dalley’s Story
Personal Tragedy Strikes Gill
The Asian Tsunami Devastates Phuket
The First Soi Dog Shelter
Thailand’s Illegal Dog Meat Trade
The Trade of Shame Programme
Thai and Buddhist Attitudes to Dogs and Cats in General
Why Are There So Many Street Dogs?
New Soi Dog Projects for 2015
A WALKING TOUR OF THE FACILITY
A Tour with Glen Johnson
A Tour of the New Dog Hospital
Out With an Animal Welfare Officer and Gill
Volunteering in Run A4
A HAPPY ENDING – ANIMALS RESCUED
Shiver’s Story
Charmander’s Story
Miracles, A Thai Dog Meat Trade Survivor, Wins Prestigious Crufts Award
Marley’s Story
Dumbo Gets Adopted by Essex (UK) Family
Why Soi Dog Does It?
Sponsoring a Dog
VOLUNTEERS STORIES
Alex’s Story – How I Change My Life
Deb and Darren Benbrook’s Story
Mark and Diana Van De Wall’s Story
Spencer’s Story
Martin Turner’s Story
Paul and Jan’s Story
Jessie Crawley’s Story
Andy Gibson – A Volunteer Vet
Helen Lawrie – A Volunteer Vet
Volunteering and Volunteers Testimonials
Soi Dog Phuket Shelter Questions
Soi Dog – The Movie with John Dalley
How Can You Help Us Help Them?
Traveling Overseas? Can You Help a Dog or Cat Get to its New Home?
Contact Details
Soi Dog Merchandise
We are a Registered Charity
The Soi Dog Staff Photos
About the Authors
41 Chapters.
108 colour photos.
It is formatted for ease of use and enjoyment on your kindle reader.
An active (easy to use) Table of Contents listing every chapter accessible from the kindle �
�go to” feature.
Perfect formatting in rich text compatible with Kindle’s Text-to-Speech features.
284 pages (in the kindle format).
It has numerous web-links (ebook edition only) to take you directly to the webpage in question. (The paperback has website addresses listed).
The royalties from your purchase goes directly to the animals in need – YOU are making a physical difference by buying this book!
SEA OF TREES
A Short Ghost Story
UK USA
There are many things beyond mere human’s comprehension that should never be meddled with.
Naak is an average twelve-year-old Thai school girl. Her only quirk is her ability to see and communicate with the dead. For this, she is constantly teased by her classmates who don’t believe her wild tales.
While her school class is on a field trip in Japan, heading towards Mount Fuji to do some sightseeing, the bus driver becomes hopelessly lost, and they end up deep inside Aokigahara – the infamous suicide forest, where at least two hundred people annually kill themselves. Here the Yūrei – the angry ghosts of the dead – have been looking for a way to escape.
Naak watches in horror as an accident causes all the children to leave the bus. However, something sinister is now controlling them. Naak’s gift has taken on a more ominous meaning when she realizes what is happening, and she knows there is only one way to stop it – only one way to save the other children.
“No one is more afraid of ghosts than those who don’t believe in them.” – A Chinese Proverb.
CHILD ANGELS
A Short Ghost Story
UK USA
There are many things beyond mere human’s comprehension that should never be meddled with.
Nok is an average thirty-two-year-old Thai woman, who keeps her small apartment clean and her violent husband happy. He is prone to outbursts after their baby girl died in a road accident. To compensate for the loss, Nok buys a Luk Thep – a spirit doll, and takes it to her local temple so the monk can perform Plook Sek on it – to invite a spirit to inhabit the doll to give it a soul. She prays for the angelic soul of her dead daughter.
However, we don’t always get what we wish for…
Evil constantly wanders the mortal world looking for a way to get in... Sometimes we hold the door wide-open.
“Our feet are planted in the real world, but we dance with angels and ghosts.” – John Cameron Mitchell
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