Greetings,

What a splendid occasion it is today, it’s November 5th, 2010. Apart from that floods of tourists, trollops and troglodytes are mixing in with the locals, travelers and transvestites walking around the streets of Chiang Mai. It’s like someone just flicked a switch and out of nowhere floods of cool people are showing up, by the bus load.

Hit up my favorite place to get a cocktail last night with my Finnish friend and met our German friend. The place was more packed at 10pm on a Thursday then it typically was at 12:30 on a Saturday night. This is awesome as yours truly has been finding Chiang Mai very relaxing but too relaxing.

If you go to Zoe & Yellow’s or Babylon or Reggae Bar, whatever… Near the bathroom there is this dude who has his little 15baht “Thai Whiskey Shop”. Take a shot of that stuff. I should make a vlog and would if my friend was still around. This Thai whiskey looks like motor oil and I”d rather drink the cobra whiskey over this stuff any day. If you’re in town, try it, trust me.

Am I the only person who gets stressed out when you’re supposed to relaxing? I find too much relaxing to be a stressful occurrence as though there is life to be living and one is missing out on it. It feels really good being able to walk down the streets and meet randoms once again. I don’t care about seeing the world, I just like meeting the interesting people in it.

Today was very relaxed so that means a bit stressful.  Woke up at 10am and made my way to the Free Bird Cafe for a travel blogger “tweet up” of sorts, yeah I go to events called Tweet Up’s, never been? You should try some time. Anyways after eating a delicious lunch that was for a good cause I just lay on the floor for about 2 hours after everyone left talking with the lady who works there.

After that, strolled around and eat random food from the streets without much a care in the world. Looking into flights to Bangkok then off to Koh Chang. Ever been to Sri Lanka? I go ta proposition to go on a trip there, considering it, indeed. That reminds me, should get teeth cleaned once more, how can you say no to a $17.50US teeth cleaning? You only have one set you know…

Side note, looking forward to ending this whole “Chiang Mai” chapter of SHABL. Just living in a strange city away from friends and family makes me wonder WTF I am doing with my life. Traveling the world in search of whatever it is that you’re searching is one thing. Killing time somewhere waiting to see if you got an instant payment via paypal is another. Everyone is searching for something FYI whether they realize it / will admit it or not.

Being in Pai sort of got the ball rolling again. It’s so easy to get “stuck somewhere”.

Oh yeah, life is short. Forget off season, if you have the time and coin, just hang out places during high season, what a different feel. This is like a new city but still glad to be making my way onward, somewhere.

Tips hat,

P.S: Lots of people like to get all snobby about how places are “ruined by tourists”. I’m the opposite, every tourist there is somewhat similar to you because they spent the time and money to get there…  Also if you don’t like tourists, you probably don’t like yourself because regardless of how “integrated” you get, you’re still a foreigner and always will be.