Kornography

Today marks the official end of the ludicrocity (it’s a word, look it up) that has been 6 AM wakeups. Today I got up at the completely reasonable time of 8, reasonable being said with a hearty measure of skepticism.

Today I set out to get the bike that the wonderful people at Gabfai had for me, and apparently have spent the week fixing up. However, whenever anyone mentions the bike, I can see the sidelong glances of all present, and given that the bike has been named Mao I didn’t have too high hopes about its merits. Anyway, when I was presented with this lovely machine, and the lock with which to secure it, I was all smiles knowing that the lock was merely cursory. In fact, as I parked the bike for the first time, I considered the merits of locking it up, in the hopes of discouraging Read the rest of this entry »

Yea, so this whole waking up early thing is apparently more than a fad, and I was up and at ‘em at 6:00 again. I worked on setting up my room, enjoyed the sunrise out my balcony, which looks out over what I have been calling the moonscape —little more than a few glorified puddles flanked by bulldozer tracks and two inexplicable towers. Now whether these are air-traffic control towers for small sea planes set to land in the largest of the puddles, or just the most tempting potential tree house within a tin-can-phone’s distance of my balcony, is up for debate. Notwithstanding, Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s a quick rundown of what you have missed….  
 

I left Boston at 7:30 am on Saturday morning and arrived in Chiang Mai on Sunday night.  Both the Boston-New York flight and the Bangkok-Chiang Mai flights were a breeze, and surprisingly the 17 hour straight shot from NY to Bangkok really wasn’t as much of a marathon of misery as advertised.  So, for those who are wondering (because I know that I was), the flight goes north from NY, up near Greenland, stays north of Europe, and then comes down through Russia, Kazakhstan (alas I couldn’t see Borat from 30,000ft.), India and then down through Read the rest of this entry »