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Hello, We basicallly had to reschedule our trip. We didn't find out till mid Sept. about the rate change. So we are now spending time in different location in SE Asia. Presently inManila in transit and heading to Chiang Rai, take a boat down the Mekong to Luang Prabang. Then on Phi Phi, Vietnam, Bali, etc....... Will be in Karon area Jan. 8 - 12th.

Thanks for the nice note on my disease. Basically my motor nerves are slowly dying which then affects your muscles becoming weaker. There is no medicine or cure. Eventually you die, average life after diagnosis is 2 - 5 years. I was diagnosed in May, 2005. The technical name is amyotropic lateral sclerlosis, and is world wide with about 35,000 in USA at a given time.

I give you permission to talk to CC Blooms. Sean has been wonderful, please tell him that. Ken is the one I have a gripe with, and I am not on his good side at this point. I told him that as I use different traval forum websites to plan my travels, I was going to post my experience with him and CC Blooms. That I would be honest and truthful of the facts. I also told him that I would also notify him of these postings so he could always respond to my post. He did not like that idea. Matter of fact he signed up or a surrogate on a different travel forum and sent me two different private messages that were very ugly. The forum administrator took him off after seeing these. Of course he can always sign up again with a different name. The messages were of a threatening nature if I did not remove my post within 48 hours. I laughed to myself that a manager of any hotel would resort to that kind of talk. I wonder if the owner even knows about this.

Let me know if you stop up there. I have never been there but it looks wonderful, and Skip at least on e-mail seemed like a great person!

Craig