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A collection of Travel & Gaming & “What’s On My Mind” posts

  • Took a while, but I eventually made it here. I’d initially planned to do a tour, but they were all booked out. However, Phai the Owner told me how to get there without the tour, so today I did that,…

  • There was Hostel Drama this morning. Someone who checked in late snuck/let a guy into  the women’s dorm, left enough of a mess on the bedding & towel that hostel owner fined her, and I suspect there’s a pretty good…

  • There are a few cats who live along the street. I’ve tried making friends with them, but they have important cat business to do, and can’t be wasting time with people who aren’t offering premium snacks. Which seems fair. I…

  • Yes, the gaps between these are increasing; That’s because I’m slowing down. I expected it to happen, so … I’m not surprised. New Years Eve arrived on schedule. Apparently there’s a thing about releasing lanterns at New Year’s, so that…

  • Another high turnover day at About A Bed, with 19 beds checking out, though only 18 checking in. Phai the Owner mentioned that she was waiting to see whether there would be an Off The Street walk-in to take that…

  • Bit of a nothing day today. I didn’t sleep badly, but I didn’t sleep for long periods, and had trouble getting back to sleep, so that wasn’t great. I hindsight, sleeping in wasn’t the best approach, because that rarely works;…

  • There’s not much to say about the last few days, I don’t think. I read a lot, in a variety of locations. I wrote a bit, because my creative brain seems to be slowing coming back on-line. I enjoyed being…

  • Mostly, just a regular day in Chiang Mai, though I did sleep in & have some somewhat festive biscuits for breakfast. I say somewhat because there’s a limit to how Christmassy a box of shortbread-adjacent snacks from the slightly larger…

  • I slept well, and I slept in. The hotel does have a breakfast cafe, but I went elsewhere because it was pretty late by the time I was functional. I regret none of this. My thing for today¹ was to…

  • A month or so back, I booked a hotel over the Christmas period, because I wanted to be sure to have somewhere nice to stay, and because I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel about Christmas this year;…

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