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my weekend with the three geeks, part 1
I am at the Bangkok Airport, enroute from Ubon Ratchathani to Chiang Mai.
I really thought I would have a lot of quiet time to update when the formal tour ended and I came back to Bangkok, but it has turned out differently. In a good way!
I went to Ubon on Friday after an interesting night in Bangkok. I have a friend in Ubon--her name is Ting, and she is a nurse at the regional hospital. We had never met in person, but have talked via the internets a lot, and when she found out I was going to be in Thailand, she invited me to visit. So I did.
Ting is way cool, and is a perfect guide for a weekend of fun. She is very high-energy, and reminds me of a couple of my friends back home. She invited a couple of her nurse friends to hang with us, and early saturday morning we all headed out on a bus to parts unknown (at least to me). Turns out we were on the way to Laos.
Ting, Malida and Nich-the three geeks
At some point I was tossing out random american words, and one of those words was "geek". Malida asked what it meant, and I said it was "someone very special". Before I knew it, they were calling themselves my three geeks. I didn't really know how to correct that one, so I let it be. They asked how many geeks I knew back in the the US, and I said, "a lot". They were impressed.
We ended up in a town called Pakse, which is about an hour from the border. Lao is somewhat different from Thailand--much more rural, and generally a lot more straighforward. Hard to explain. It is a great place to visit, though.
We had lunch in a little local restaurant--one of the things that has happened since I left the group is that I am eating a lot more at small local restaurants. This trip, I let the girls do the ordering, so it was always a surprise what I would eat. It's a big change for me, as I am sometimes known as a picky eater. Everything was delicious!
Ok, I gotta go catch my flight. To be, as they say, continued....
I really thought I would have a lot of quiet time to update when the formal tour ended and I came back to Bangkok, but it has turned out differently. In a good way!
I went to Ubon on Friday after an interesting night in Bangkok. I have a friend in Ubon--her name is Ting, and she is a nurse at the regional hospital. We had never met in person, but have talked via the internets a lot, and when she found out I was going to be in Thailand, she invited me to visit. So I did.
Ting is way cool, and is a perfect guide for a weekend of fun. She is very high-energy, and reminds me of a couple of my friends back home. She invited a couple of her nurse friends to hang with us, and early saturday morning we all headed out on a bus to parts unknown (at least to me). Turns out we were on the way to Laos.
Ting, Malida and Nich-the three geeks
At some point I was tossing out random american words, and one of those words was "geek". Malida asked what it meant, and I said it was "someone very special". Before I knew it, they were calling themselves my three geeks. I didn't really know how to correct that one, so I let it be. They asked how many geeks I knew back in the the US, and I said, "a lot". They were impressed.
We ended up in a town called Pakse, which is about an hour from the border. Lao is somewhat different from Thailand--much more rural, and generally a lot more straighforward. Hard to explain. It is a great place to visit, though.
We had lunch in a little local restaurant--one of the things that has happened since I left the group is that I am eating a lot more at small local restaurants. This trip, I let the girls do the ordering, so it was always a surprise what I would eat. It's a big change for me, as I am sometimes known as a picky eater. Everything was delicious!
Ok, I gotta go catch my flight. To be, as they say, continued....
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