spotted consciousness

Back to Chiang Rai (2nd time)

huh, I just realized that the last four posts have all had Chiang Mai in the title. I guess I really was getting sucked in there....phew, good to be out. Been in Chiang Rai now for last two days with Kyi Kyi and Tune. Kyi Kyi and I were going to split up to a northern most city and slow boat it over into to Laos...but ah how things change. I don't think I've had a plan that's fully held up past a day or two max.
Tune was going to split for Chiang Rai on her lonesome and Kyi Kyi and I were going to try to get a package deal: bus to Chiang Kong, next morning slow boat over into Laos, spend a night on the river and then slow boat over to the city of Luang Prabaung, Laos... Package deal ends up being fully booked, and just to do anything to get moving and get the hell out of Chiang Mai we reassemble the team and decide to all head to Chiang Rai, and considering it's in the same direction, wasn't much of a decision.
Right now I'm using Tune's computer in one of her two rental houses that her and her husband shares, connected by a car port made of some type of corrugated aluminum I suppose. I gather that the 'H' is back in France working. Easily the nicest and place if stayed, big ceilings, tiled porches, all the amenities, all emmaculately clean. Yesterday the girls made use of the kitchen to whip up some Shan (Myanmar) food. I'm getting the impression that a big big staple of the Shan diet is the yellow bean. Scrumpcous! Last night I made two separate missions to the kitchen to make eggs and toast with a side of the yellow bean chili stuff. Granted there were other reasons for my sudden spike in appetite.
I feel like I really should shake my head sometimes. Living with two exotic and beautiful girls in a huge beautiful house that a France computer engineer who slaves away back in France pays for, gourmet authentic food cooked before my eyes, a next to new vespa in the car park to go anywhere, music to be jammed at the local rasta bars, cheap food and beer, etc, etc...simply amazing, mind blowing really. I think the reason I can't shake my head at it is because I am just unable to get my head around it. It just continues and continues to get more and more interesting, and at anyone time when I really think to shake my head at it, there's just too much still waiting! pointless.

For instance: tonight big jam night at the peace house (rasta bar), making Shan food and other food for fishing trip tomorrow, need to get bus ticket over near Laos in order to catch a slow boat in a day or two, visa almost up. Will travel with Kyi Kyi for a week or two, last night out late and slept late. There's just to much...

Even in Chiang Mai, for days it would just be Kyi Kyi, Tune and I. Hanging out into the wee hours of the night, waking in the long afternoon, looking for food run an errand or two, maybe take it easy and watch a movie, or maybe back out the endless hours of that northern Thai night life. I scene that really brings it home for me, is how we ride everywhere together on one vespa, Kyi Kyi folded in front of me and Tune behind. I negotiate the road, reminding myself often to take great care in keeping these two amazing girls with me safe. I peer around Kyi Kyi head of flaring black hair trying to see what gear I'm presently in and once in a while making sure that Kyi Kyi isn't sliding to far forward. What a sight we must be to certain people!


oops...got to go, forgot I have sandals getting made today...