Hit Don Muong airport bright and early, was hustled to a Bangkok office, received 10cc of gama globulin in each cheek (not the ones on the face) for hepatitis, and rode 200 miles north on the wooden bench in the back of a 2 1/2 ton cargo truck (deuce-and-a-half). Worked every day for a year and went home. No vacations, days off, or R&R. Most of the time pulled 12 hour shifts. Only time off was 1 week for amoebic dysentary. Spent that week in the outhouse. Drank tincture of opium every day to try and bind me (more info than you wanted to know). First beach I saw was Wake Island in the middle of the Pacific on the way home.

Saw lots of jungle and rice paddies, though. Don't remember any casinos.