Diarrhea, The Dark Tower and the Frakkin' Oceanic Six.

Since the last blog post, Kim and I (her less than me) came down with, what our Lonely Planet guide refers to as, Traveller's Diarrhea. According to the guide: "Traveller's Diarrhea is defined as the passage of more than three watery bowels within 24 hours, plus one other symptom such as vomiting, fever, cramps, nausea or feeling generally unwell." If "three" was the benchmark, I must have had Traveller's Diarrhea times four. For my "one other symptom" I vomited roughly a dozen times in the span of one sleepless night. It was great!

It took several days and some antibiotics, but I think we're finally back to our old selves. My appetite returned yesterday when I gobbled down a veggie pizza.

On our road to recovery, Kim and I have busied ourselves by reading through the books we've been picking up. She blazed though two Nick Hornby novels, and I continued my quest for the Dark Tower. I had finished book two at the very beginning of our trip, and then listened to book three on my ipod during our first week of train and bus riding. Here in Chiang Mai, I found a copy of book four, Wizard and Glass. I seem to remember my friend Jacob saying that Wizard and Glass was his favorite. It took about three days, but now I'm ready for book five and I regrettably haven't seen it at any of the shops. I've only been able to find book 7, but that does me little good. I've been forced to abandon Roland and his ka-tet for a little while and will instead read High Fidelity, which isn't a bad book by any means.

ALSO!!!!!!!!!!!

Kim and I were originally a little upset that the return of Battlestar Galactica and Lost coincided with our leaving of the country. Who is the final Cylon? What happened to planet earth? Why do half the backstory plots in Lost have to revolve around Kate? But two days ago I realized that waiting until we got home with our internet ears plugged was unnecessary. We booked a room with wifi, and although sites like hulu, abc, and scifi.com are blocked by foreign IP addresses, we managed to successfully torrent the first two episodes of each show's new season. I don't know why I didn't think of it before, but it made both of us very happy.

That's pretty much our second week-- not as exciting as our first week, but not bad. We still have an undefined amount of days left here in Chiang Mai. I imagine we'll read a few more books, eat at a few more restaurants, and eventually get ourselves to one of the nightly Muy Thai boxing events.

Cheers!


Sunday Walking Street, Chiang Mai


Sunday Walking Street, Chiang Mai


Airport Plaza, Chiang Mai