Hellow Friends and fellow travelers.....A couple things I missed in the last blog about Mae Sot. The beds in our hotel were a little...ahh...firm. Going to bed is much like laying on a cushy piece of marine plywood laid over a marble floor...then throwing some sheets on...and whamo...you're ready for a slumbering nights rest. I was awakened by my right arm sending urgent messages to my brain that it had been paralyzed. True to form I had been laying on it...between my body weight and the marble bed I had squished all the blood and sensation out of it...and had to pull myself to a sitting position with one arm to allow the blood back in...Whoa.
Did I mention the food? Eating on the street is the best way to go. It's delicious and inexpensive. However, neither Terry or I always knew exacting what we were eating...which is probably for the best. Not much beef eaten in SE Asia. Chicken, pork, and sea food are the mainstays. There are a few stalls offering fried larvae, crickets, and beetles....which I swore to myself that I would try before the trip...but just couldn't bring myself to step up and place one on my tongue when confronted with a steaming pile of the insects.
The further away from the larger cities like Bangkok we traveled...and Mae Sot was pretty far away...the fewer people spoke English and the names of restaurants, stores, markets, etc. were all in the Thai language...same with menus....they don't do directions or estimates of distance or time very well either...at least in my experience....so a 30 minute ride could be more like 5 or "about a kilometer" ended up being a couple of blocks. But we made it where we wanted to go and in a timely fashion on our little scooter.
Going to be on a cruise for a couple of days...more posts after that. Ed out.
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