Sukie Sukosol Clapp mounts his motorcycle to take another life-changing journey, this time through Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam

Kamol Sukosol Clapp, the guy everybody calls "Sukie", famously turned his back on the astonishing success of Bakery, the independent-music label he co-founded, and now he's ready with another episode of his next big project, the TV travel series "dreamchaser".

An idea inspired by a motorcycle jaunt to Phuket and crystallised with the help of film director Aditya Assarat, "dreamchaser" follows Sukie into Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.

Along the way he tries to be a farmer - though his 20 minutes of toil almost kill him - and he visits orphans living with Aids.

It was a spiritual journey, right?

"It's nothing like nirvana," he says, "but you learn more about other people, and because of that you appreciate what you have better."

The experience certainly made Sukie grimace at the easy life he had in show business. He remembers entertainers and models complaining about how tough their jobs were.

"Oh, my God - you have no right to complain!" he'd like to tell them now. "That's so easy - one hour, you get Bt200,000. A farmer works the whole day and gets Bt20!"

Among the clouds

What else struck Sukie on the Indochina trek?

He was sitting atop Bokor Hill in Cambodia, and a picture of the modern world presented itself.

"You're up among the clouds, and there's a casino right there. You look at it but then you don't see it, because the cloud comes in. It was the most surreal moment I've ever been in my whole life."

Sukie's mood does seem to have darkened overall, but he appears to be having fun.

"Whenever I put business first it never works for me," he says. "Whenever I take something that I love and I make it a business thing, it works."