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Chapter 5: The Pai Life

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June 24th 2008
1000am. The sun bakes our anglo skin for breakfast with mosquito-bite marinade. Apply sunscreen. We're sitting at a bus station (a small patch of dry dirt) in Pai waiting for Sandot to scoop us to his farm. I'm so excited to finally meet Leigh's favorite biped that I begin to sweat with anticipation. Wait, never mind, that's just the sun turning up the heat on her stove. 1010am. John Fogherty ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more