A few weeks after our eager return to Chiang Mai, Sa, a friend of Sodahead's, invited us to her home, a Lisu village near "the City of Stars", Chiang Dao. We enthusiastically accepted--although Mutti decided to remain behind. Joining us was Sa's good friend, Lek, who was not only pleasurable company but a reasonable translator. Sa, unfortunately knew no English so we could only speak with her in the limited Thai we knew. The initial leg of our journey began with an hour bus ride from the Chiang Mai Bus Depot to a ditch in Chiang Dao. From there we hired a "taxi" to take us the remainder of the journey, which Sodahead assured me would "only take about an hour and a half." Yeah right. With my excellent sense of time I argue it
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