Monday, January 4, 2010
Day before the trip
Ahhh snowy and cold...sometimes the best way to leave for a vacation to warmer climes. I do not expect to see much white flying around for the next 7 weeks. . . I expect it to be cold at night in higher elevations of northern Thailand and Laos but expect the weather overall to be very agreeable. Those of you who know me I don't agree with the cold, or rather it doesn't agree with me or my body. So goodbye Korean winter and hello South East Asian dry season. . .I'll try to upload posts along the way. I'll see how the internet availability goes. . . there is always pen and paper. . . I still bring that everywhere I go. I haven't gone completely digital yet. Images may not be uploaded until I return to the Land of the Morning Clam in late February. Wish me luck, health and wonders along the way.
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Ghiang Mai..1977.
ReplyDeleteWe boarded the nicest, most modern bus we'd ever seen, at about 7 p.m. and rode all night in what we thought was absolute luxury, to Chiang Mai. Quite a change from the 7 hour boat trip...in a hollowed out log with an outboard motor on it...a few days ago, in what was then...Burma. Lots of Burma stories, and it's what? 33 years later. I must have told you most of them when you were a kid...
We checked into a guest house, with mosquito nets over the bed, and went to an open air restaurant...actually a tin roofed cabana, for something to eat. As you've mentioned, the fruit there is delightful. We ordered a fruit salad. Apparently, unknown to us....ordering that particular salad, was a password, (Joe sent me) for those interested in purchasing drugs. It was as if a genie escaped from a bottle somewhere in the restaurant..A little creature popped up from the floor, offering an entire pharmacological, or agrarian menu.
We could have bought a barrel of Heroin if we wanted to...I'll have to end the story here, but remembering the grinning little creature, popping up literally from nowhere, when we ordered, remains a fond memory...BTW, the fruit salad was wonderful