sunday sunday

i really want to apologize for skipping huge chinks of time in this blog. i’m trying to keep up as far as chronology goes, but it seems to slip away from me, and the down time i have to actually write and upload and edit photos is pretty short. so, bear with me.

sunday, my first full day here, i was goaded into renting a scooter for 200 baht a day. terrified, remembering the plight of a certain dutch friend of mine, and leery of the ominous rainclouds, i prayed and prayed and prayed to remain vertical on this damn bike, navigating through insane thai traffic through highway construction and into a national park north of chiang mai about an hour. ish. the road took us into the mountains, winding winding winding through elephant camps and orchid farms and waterfalls, but to see any of them, there was a 200 baht “Foreign Visitor” charge. Livid, I argued for 20 minutes with a man in a camouflage uniform. I finally folded when the aussie mentioned he really wanted to see this waterfall, but i bemoaned it for days. I still am, apparently.



we also visited a wat, a Buddhist temple, to which i have been responding with “what??” in my subtle American humor every time we pass one. ha ha.