Except for the closed restaurant nonsense it looks like a perfectly delightful day. Nice that you had camp buddies to keep you company!

What a beautiful bouquet/page.

Dodie, it’s a real shame, this heat. Although at present we are enjoying the leftovers of a windy rain event that happened three days ago and it’s definitely cooler at present and we’re loving it even though the beaches are all churned up and unswimmable.

I think when you factor in the 15 hours of jet lag and the heat, it’s not an easy place to visit. If temps were normal it would be great, especially because it’s beautiful, affordable, great roads, great people, and of course, phenomenal food.

I don’t know the answer for us in the future. Chiang Mai and the northern parts of Thailand are having a lovely, reasonably cool winter this year, with daytime temps that would be comparable to Portland and Vancouver Island summertime weather. The problem for me is that it’s very mountainous up there and I hate climbing as much as I hate heat.

I do want to say that you couldn’t have been THAT much cooler in the Yucatan, and you and Steve travel much further every day than we do, and THEN, at the end of your ride you go out and visit sights and go the market, walk around the town you’re in. All kudos and admiration for that. I’m usually good for a shower and some laundry after we are done riding but that’s it. Don’t underestimate your abilities!

Thanks for the clarification, Andrea and please excuse my ignorance ..
Hope you get those eye shades so you can sleep easier!

It means my belt, which I put oil on to stop the screeching from dusty dirt, touched my leg. Every time I stop to photograph something or do something else I have a very hard time holding my fully loaded bike at the same time because Bike Fridays don't have a center bar which most bikes have and you can grab with your thighs. These "tattoos" that most cyclists get are from chains but I thought it would never happen to me again with a belt. I had no idea how awful the sound is of a dry dusty belt and I had to put something on it.

That’s a bit of a stretch. He’s referring to building codes.

cozy!

What does it mean?

So unfortunate no morality or ethics codes apply. Surely they don’t like it either? Thanks Bruce! Safe travels back home 😉

Bruce is part Swedish too. I think he was more weirded out than I was, to be honest. I have a lot of questions about gated communities of rich(er) foreigners in a still-developing country, especially in an impoverished area like this was. I thought Thailand was pretty careful about property acquisition law, so this is especially weird.

I'm too independent to understand wanting to settle down in a community of fellow countrypersons in a foreign country. I mean, how much interaction are they really going to have with other people? How much of the language will they ever learn? How much culture will they absorb? It's just weird to me. That's why it almost seemed cult-like.

Oh yes, you are right again, Gregory. It's Cone of Silence. But I like Dome better anyway. Especially for this cement thing.

There are no codes over here.

How do they really expect this to “ pass” 😬

Road ties Thailand style ;)