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| Bathroom of our home-sweet-home for tonight. Our guest-house is right on the beautiful ocean gulf. Resting on a picnic table outside our room, I was enjoying the seabreezes and the disconcerting sound of our toilet draining directly into the ocean. |
Today we bicycled around Ban Bang Phra Reservoir and are staying the night on the coast at Sriracha. We'd hoped to get a substantial distance east, but our map lacked road names for the little guys, and we ended up doing a "day rider's" loop around the reservoir rather than traversing distance, thanks to misreading the map and becoming lost. But neither of us are particularly bothered--that's not the Thai spirit--which gave us an opportunity to visit these Chinese temples on an island nearby.
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| This picture does not do justice to the wows. |
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| Inside the temple--felt as festive as a merry-go-round, as inappropriate as that is. |
Last night we had more sea creatures, rice, and baby cabbages for dinner.
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| Mmmm, squid creature tentacle beard. |
After the meal, I got up to pay Mr. Restaurant. He asked me in basic English where I was from, then how old I was. Looking up at me after these answers, he observed appreciatively: "you high." Then he told me how high he was (1.6 meters). His wife came over to marvel at me as well, and gestured around her face: "bee-you-tee-full" she said.
I left full of seafood and happily laughing about this exchange; trying to take notes in the moment for better travel writing, I brought out my little book (thank you dear Anurag!) and started jotting while walking. I strode my head directly into the pink rear-view mirror of an extraordinarily colorful bus--I'm high enough for that evidently. Buddy Lissy and I laughed ourselves silly over that one.
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| Bicycle bliss ocean breeze. |
Roadside, mid-morning heat and mind-burning sun, two girls peering bemused at insufficiently labeled map.
Buddy Lissy: [looking up from map, giving directions] "Keep going then...keep going."
Sandra: [in response to this] "I ate all the bananas by the way."
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Buddy Lissy: [looking up from map, giving directions] "Keep going then...keep going."
Sandra: [in response to this] "I ate all the bananas by the way."
Hahahahaha. Well, I lent on the last one, so there!
The colors are amazing! Sometimes I use the sun to help me know if I'm going in the right direction. Love,Mom
Yeah but the suns so high you can't tell which way north is. Morning and evening puts you back on track a little, bad thing it's dark in 15 min or so. Night comes very fast, then it totally black. Watch for that I would say..BoD
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Yes! We've been very mindful of the sun setting quickly.
Yes, we have been using the sun, especially since we've been biking in the morning and east is obvious.
hehahahah
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