I took a 2 hour bus ride northwest from Bangkok to Kanchanaburi. Kanchanaburi Central Bangkok slowly gave way to auto dealerships and low buildings of crumbling mortar and cane fields and coconut trees, and somewhere on the way I passed through the ache of leaving a place and began to look forward to where I was going next. 
Now I’m in Kanchanaburi, on the River Kwai–literally. My room is a floating bungalow at the River Guest House. I haven’t done much today but swing in a hammock and buy mosquito repellent and wash some clothes in a sink and hang them outside to dry (for some reason, the sun drying my socks is incredibly satisfying.) Tomorrow, I’m off to see the famous bridge and go to a war museum and visit the Tiger Temple, where monks keep rescued tigers.
PS Those high-pitched tk-tk-tk-tk sounds? Those aren’t birds. They’re lizards (geckos?) and they’re chasing each other and fighting on the outside wall of my bungalow. I used to find lizards cute, but this is disturbing me.
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February 22, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Lauren
If you don’t come with a loyal pet tiger, I’m going to be mildly disappointed but will understand anyway.
February 24, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Thomas
Just you wait . . . I have some tiger cub pictures that are way off the cuteness charts. What is the name of that site you always used to check out at work? I may need to start posting there.
February 24, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Lauren
hm. it wasn’t cuteoverload. it was cuteoverload’s rival. i need to look this up.
unrelatedly, i miss you and think that you and your tiger cub army should come back to take over new york.
okay. here it is. http://www.justalittleguy.blogspot.com/
February 27, 2007 at 12:28 am
Mark S.
Tiger cubs? Cute? Feh.
Check out these kitties: http://www.toygers.org/
On the minus side, I imagine it won’t be nearly as nice for the ASPCA to have to round up houses of feral toygers after old crazy ladies pass away…
Glad to hear the trip’s going well, T-Mar. I’ll check in more often once I have a convenient connection to the intertube highway.