Hi guys.
We still haven't heard anything, we hate the silence too.
He was staying at the Khaolak Orchid, and we originally thought he was in one of the bungalows on the beach that got totally wiped out, but he was staying in a room in the hotel. The rest of my family is still as optimistic as they can be, but it's awful hard considering the silence from over there.
Some of my family have started a fund to raise money for a PI to go looking, but I can't think of anything that a PI could really do that the 7 or 8 friends looking over there right now can't, especially considering the broken up infrastructure. They're calling and visiting hospitals and looking over photos, but a lot of the bodies at Khaolak were never photographed because nobody got to them until days later when decomposition got bad.
Unless a miracle occurs and he calls in to check his mail from New York or something, it'll probably be a drawn out process at this point. It's not that likely though, because the last credit card transactions they made were at the resort immediately before the disaster, and they weren't large enough to be checkout charges.
I don't know quite how to feel. My family is keeping up hope, but I feel like at this point, it's probably too late. I don't want to say this to anyone because they'll think I'm showing some form of disloyalty, but I don't know. Am I giving up too soon? Or am I pragmatic? Only time will tell.
I still have my fingers crossed, and I really hope he's ok, but it's getting hard.
