Written March 21, 2006, 10:07 pm We were picked up early on the morning Friday for our hill trek by a pick-up truck. We settled in to the bed of the truck and were soon joined by Lukas and Valeska, a pair of German students also joining the trek. Our final trekker, Amnon, an Israeli on sabbatical from his life in the software industry, made our group of five significantly smaller than the “6 to 12 people” we were told to expect and we were very happy about that. This was our first interaction with others and we seemed to luck out on the people based on our initial discussions. Thankfully before departing Chiang Mai we hopped into the back of a songthaew, a covered pick-up bed lined with benches. It is important to note that
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