The Young Man Odyssey

I took the same rickety bus back, and had two seats to myself for half of it, before a thai man came down next to me holding what i was fantasising to be a bomb. on the way the thai army brought out drug sniffing dogs, something that didn’t happen the last time. it was hard to leave pai, and chiang mai is the same as it was. i know it like the… top of my foot, not as well as the back of my hand but close. it’s a good place to visit, pai is a good place to live.

i ate dinner at a food stall directly across from a sad middle aged american and his thirteen year old girlfriend. after dinner i took another seat and rolled a cigarette in front of a ten year old. i wondered which one set the worse example. there are no “no prosititution” signs all over america, maybe they are, i’ve never seen them. they wouldn’t need them except maybe vegas, but in thailand it might actually do some good.

the buses to the golden triangle weren’t running when i got in, so this visit is by circumstance and not by good will. i shall wait out my time and carry on. I’ll be in Laos in two days or so.

Pai is the kind of town when you arrive you stay, and when you leave you take it very slowly. I have at least 350 miles to traverse today but I took a last motorycle ride through the country, and have left my bag with the wonderful british man who makes astounding mango shakes, 30 cent mango shakes.

My favorite movie as a kid was Robin Hood, the disney version. And while Robin and Little John were wakling through the wood, when the happy about circumstances they would hell, oodalolly! Pai is oodalolly.

My plan was to get the 9:30 bus, it’s 12:30 now, I’m trying for the 2 o’clock, but maybe I’ll have a change of heart and stay. Ha!

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G'day everyone. This shall be my last communication for 10 days, if I can last that long. This shall be my new home: I have enrolled in a 10-day meditation course at Wat Ram ... [Continue reading this entry]