noodle quest 2006

hey faithful fans.  i am back from my stint as a lahu hill tribe village masseuse.  it was totally WILD and amazing.  i will post all of my journal entries as links when i can scan them in bangkok.  for right now, dan met me in chiang mai on friday night and since then i have been eating noodles like crazy.  tonight we are taking a train to bkk and i will spend a few days there until i’m not sure what.  i have to cross the border REAL soon as my visa expired two days ago and i don’t want to pay hefty fines. 

i just found out that ms. tida jessicA maffia is en route to thailand! so probably she will kidnap me to the beach and i wil allow this although i am going to come back to chiang mai and take another thai massage course, i think.

 more on all of these things tomorrow when i have endless hours of free internet and am uploading my four zillion photos and videos. 

so actualy after i posted on the blog i didn’t leave that night.  dan and i spent the evening fleeing the wrath of his psycho ex-girlfriend who was threatening to come over to his house to do what, exactly, wasn’t know but couldn’t have been good.  we went out and ate some noodles and walked around for a while.  i taught dan the art of hotel crashing whereby you walk into any 5-star hotel and sit in the plushest of lobby seats like you own the place for as long as you want.  using the bathroom and taking neccesary supples (pens, candy, toilet paper) are more upper-level add-ons that take a bit of time to learn.  the next day i left on the train bound for chiang mai at 6pm.  i bought a second class sleeper seat but all they had left was top bunks.  before the top bunk goes down the bottom bunk is two seats and mine was facing backward.  i felt very sad to say goodbye to dan so after tearily looking out the window at all of the things i was leaving, i decided i needed to find a seat where i could face forward into the things i was heading toward. [read on]