Sunday, June 28, 2009

another 180 in Thailand

Cambodia and back to Bangkok today.
I'm not sure what it is but when Natey Dread and I get together we always go big. Second night in row, and another morning watching the sun break on the streets of Bangkok. Straight to the bus at 7:30 am, and then strange glimpses of a day. I definitely waited in a lot of lines, one to get out of Thailand, one to get into Cambodia, quick one to get back out of Cambodia and then another long one to get back into Thailand. Been in and out of sleep all day until now, solid sleep when I got back to the guesthouse at around 6 pm and now eerily reminiscent of the last of the LapSap String Band days, I'm a 180 off schedule again.
Didn't have to be in Cambodia long to recollect what a poor country it is. Lost of people acting as mules and pulling the most rickety of carts you can imagine back and across the boarder. The immigration building to get into Cambodia had a giant tree inside it, and they had spliced the roof around it - pretty great stuff! Met an Irish guy on the bus with last name Murray, who was telling me about some family history. Says the name Murray is actually Scottish, and then he gave me some other names that it arose from, said he had done a far amount of research on this. Then he explained the famines and when and who of us were shipped off the new world. Meant to get him to write some of this stuff down, but didn't work out.

So I flipped my visa and I'm good to go - but in the mean time I also flipped my sleep schedule. Good sign maybe, a good solid marker between the last 14 days in southern Thailand to the next 14 looking to the north.

14 more days in Thailand. Heading up north soon.

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