DanielW, on your travels I'm always curious how you deal with sticking out as the rare tourist/white english speaking guy/etc. Do you ever have to rebuff locals, or are they more often than not friendly and harmless.

I'm about to get started on a TR (need to stay awake a few more hours to try to get back on US time!) where I was in SE Asia and stuck out, to the point that the attention became annoying in one place.