Since over 70% of visitors to this site are from the USA, I hardly need to expand on the common slang use of the word toke (to draw from a cannabis cigarette or pipe), but the origins of the word are interesting. It derives perhaps from the Spanish tocar, which is to touch or test, or from the vulgar Latin word toccare (also meaning to touch). Thus we have the "touch zone" - a place to touch and be touched. When did the word enter common use? Many etymologies suggest 1968. To me this indicates another possible source of toke - Alice Babette Toklas, (pronounced toke-lass) who is credited with bringing hash cookies to the attention of the world in her Alice B Toklas Cookbook in 1954 and immortalised in the film, I Love You, Alice B Toklas.

I try to update the site more or less continuously. You will be able to see what's changed by clicking on news zone on the left menu, or Site News in the yellow box to the right on this page. Above that is the search box, which you'll need if you came here from somewhere like Google, as the tokezone scripts redirect visitors to this page. A fancier version of the search tool can be accessed from any page by using the search zone button on the left menu.

In a nutshell here is what each "zone" has in store: Over in the download zone you'll find programs for enhancing your online safety in a cybercafe, an international rack of clocks and many more downloads with a travel bent, whilst the travel zone features information for independent travellers who want to visit Asian countries (principally the Indian subcontinent), and has hints and tips gathered from my own experience. In the gallery zone you'll find pictures (panoramas as well) from my travels over 28 years in Asia, Australasia and Europe. In the toke-card zone you can customise some of my photos with text, music and colours and send to friends, and over in the tone zone I try to give guidelines about your choices for music on the move - iPods, portable speakers and the like. The planet zone has links concerned with the environment, while the ramble zone is a grab-bag listing of sites I visited and liked.

If you use internet cafés while travelling, you would do well to familiarise yourself with the threats to your online privacy in the online zone and safeguard your personal information. The maurice zone has information about Steve Miller and his use of that enigmatic p-word, pompitous. Some people called him Maurice, you see...  

Despite the name tokezone, you'll find the site's primary focus isn't about using cannabis. If you're interested in that subject, however, you'll almost certainly find something to tickle you in the roll your zone.

If you'd like to give me feedback on what is on the site (always welcome) or request features for future updates, then please email me here.

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