Thailand Journal

Durian Fruit. Reekingly delicious passion of Southeast peril. Tastes like heaven and smells like hell ...

A baby elephant tries to steal some Skittles out of producer Diane Schutz's handbag.

Headline. Not encouraging.

The water-soaked mayhem that is the Songkran Festival.

The mighty warriors, post Songkran shoot.

Another headline. This one even less encouraging.

Cameraman Todd Leibler steps into chocolate.

I begin to wonder if the cockles I'm getting are worth the ****ing I'm getting.

I wait for the crew to extract themselves from hip-deep mud.

Zach Zamboni with his latest piece of hardware -- an eyepiece he assures me is on loan from the military. Very Terminator.

Camera trying to stay out of the way of all the swinging fists and kicking feet during a Muay Thai bout.

I want ' sausage.

FAN-atic finalist Eric Rivera finds out what it means to be a "winner." You get to be personal assistant to Zach Zamboni.