Adventures By Design

In which the travelers air condition their scorched skins.

We enjoyed a long breakfast at a great pub with free wireless access. Wireless is less common here than in Bangkok or Chiang Mai, so when we find it we tend to use it for a while. Today we posted three days worth of blog entries, plus started a gallery of all the photos we’ve taken so far. Our plan is to create a page to display all the photos for each of the countries we visit.

After breakfast we returned home to spend some quality time with our books. Gin is chewing through Bill Bryson’s “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, while Ric’s reading “number9dream”, a book about a young Japanese man trying to find his estranged father.

As we noted with amusement, the peak of our excitement for the day was the afternoon thunderstorm. We heard it rolling in from the east, and soon water was pouring off our bungalow’s roof. Ric set up his beach blanket/hammock (see April 20th), now renamed his blammock, in the front porch, and read his book, listening to the water falling around him.

The rain passed, and we grew hungry for dinner. We wandered down the beach, asking to see menus and weighing our options. We found a restaurant serving pizza and Thai food, and settled in for something to eat.

Koh Lanta is shutting down for the season, and finding restaurants that are still open is becoming a challenge. If we had known that low season was actually no season, we may have opted to leave a week earlier. The folks we meet are just friendly as always, but there is an exhaustion in their eyes. They remind us of a host graciously waiting for the last stragglers to leave the kitchen at the end of a successful party.