For an OTR driver is a 100 days on / 30 days off type schedule reasonable?

Fairtex Gyms are the big name in Muay Thai training with many members of the Fairtex family involved. They used to be reasonable but with the growth in intrest in the sport the prices have become crazy, as in several thousand per month with VIP hotel rooms as accomodation.

However, you can still find small, traditional style, open air, local gyms, that will train forigners for peanuts, as in $100-$200 per month and still train with national champions in the sport.

 

Yeah the smaller gyms is what I am looking into. The fairtex I have where expensive enough when I bought them years back. to be able to come and train for a month is kind of like a dream vacation u know stay with a local family learn a little bit of the culture and train the old school way side note when I did some training at the boxing club under melchor menor in San Diego there was I guy I trained and spared with maybe twice who use to go every summer and train are fairtex he said he was the only white guy in the fairtex video with a knock out this was years ago dunno if its still up thanks for the info

 

^ There is a Lumpinee Stadium Champion who runs a small camp down near the Cambodian border. He was famous for a kind of almost roundhouse knee head kick to end fights. He is an older guy now but still looks fit enough. I don't train but I stayed at the guesthouse just across the way and would watch them work. Very impressive stuff.

I can't quote you the guys name as Thai names are long and like alphabet soup. The guesthouse is called "POP Guesthouse" in Trat, Thailand. Simple place but nice. Overnight say is about $9 per night, good fresh cooked meals for about $2. Website: http://www.trat-popguesthouse.com/ If I did train, I would go there.

 

What's the name of the training camp and if possible can u post a link so I can check it out

 

Sorry, I don't know it. It is not one of the big tourist/ foreigner oriented camps, just a small, rural camp and I doupt they have a website. If you are really intrested I recommend you send an e-mail to the guesthouse and ask, the camp is just accross the street. The Thai woman who runs the guesthouse speaks excellent English and I bet she can give you at least basic info. Link for guesthouse again: http://www.trat-popguesthouse.com/

I am recommending this camp for 3 reasons:

- I don't train Muay Thai but I know enough about the sport to know they are training / working legitimate technique.
- Trat is a nice and safe small Thai town. Simple place but has enough foreigners who pass through on the way to Cambodia that the locals are not freaked out by a foreigner face. Also it is a great guesthouse with English speaking staff. A good place for a Foreigner who is not familar with Thailand to be safe and learn
- Koh Chang (translated means "Elephant Island") is nearby, a great island to tour, relax on and enjoy when you are not training.

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This is the "big rig" I drive in Thailand, all packed up to catch the ferry to go and explore Koh Chang:

 

Thanks I'm definitely gonna send them an email today

 

Passport 220: what goes gas cost there?

 

Humm, I think just under $1 per liter (about $3.60 - $3.70 per US gallon) for 95 octane gasoline, but to tell the truth I don't know off the top of my head. To fill-up the tank of that 125cc motorbike in the pic only costs around $3 usd. I used to notice when I first moved here, but the cost is so low I don't regularly sweat or even look up to check what the cost per liter is. If I am over paying for a liter, it will only add up to a few cents on my small tank, I just stop at the place that is most convenient and I don't think twice about it.

I will check it when I am out and about later today and post it here.

 

Okay, I am in Bacold, Philippines right now. It is a mid-sized city in an otherwise rural provence in the Central Philippines. My price quote above was off, the price was the same at two stations I drove by today 48 pesos per liter of diesel ($4.38 per gal.). Regular unleaded gas is at 59 pesos per liter ($5.39 per gal.).

 

I briefly spoke with a guy the other day, he said he worked 5-6 months straight and then spent the rest of the year in Bosnia, his homeland. He had a house, an apartment for his aging mother and a a hunting cabin that he was fixing up, all owned outright. He's done this for 10 years and goes home with about 25-30k after living in the truck for 6 months straight.

I imagine all he needed to spend money on while in the US was clothes and food. He was cooking up a big steak outside of his truck when I met him. He was doing the low carb thing.