Around Pai

Location: Pai, Thailand
Local Time: Monday, April 3, 2006 - 7:10pm

Started the day with some light reading. I'm working my way through Daughter of China, by Meihong Xu and Larry Engelmann. True story of a professor who went to in the late 80s as part of a cultural exchange, and the army intelligence office assigned to watch him, because it had been decided he was a spy. Bit of a look inside the political manouverings of China at the time.

Yoga from 10 - 12, before lunch with Seth (Canadian), Hanna (British), Katie (British), Zoe (Australian), Veetska (Dutch), Jo (British), Bri (Canadian) and Ofiel (Israeli). Vegetarian restaurant, but still quite good.

Then Seth, Katie, Hanna, Zoe and I got some motorcycles and went riding around Pai today. Lots of little back roads, not cruising like I'm use to in Canada, where it is an hour or more between towns/sights. Here we put on about 20 - 30 km, max, in the afternoon, passing through little clusters of houses, fields beside the roads, hot springs (80C so we didn't jump in). Visited a waterfall. The water had worn the rocks smooth so it made a really nice water slide. I slid down it a couple of times (Zoe has some action shots which I'll try to post later if she sends them to me). I don't know how the kids managed to climb so high, those rocks were slippery.

Now, it's movie night. We've rented a private viewing room for 9pm, as there is no movie theatre here in Pai.