Which basicly describes the last twenty-five years of my life.
I live in "Emergency Mode" full time, going from adventure to adventure...
Except it isn't really adventure; it's "my life".
That phrase again.
Important to emphasise; similar to a car accident, the driver of the car that hits the pedestrian thinks
"boy, that didn't hurt at all"
whereas the poor victim is like
"the world is pain"
What else can you say? The victim's life is not the driver's life, the one's pain is not the other.
So if there is a car accident in a forest, and there is noone there to hear it, is there still pain?
The sophist says "No"
So I have been reluctant to unload the details of all my "adventures" here, because for me they aren't adventures, they are real life... often somewhat uncomfortable, sometimes painful having their roots in my upbringing as the .5 child in a 2.5 child household.
But yes, it could be told as such, it could be seen that way.
My summer was spent bouncing around the southwest, exploring and living... having "adventures"... which had to end when the weather turned cold.
Where to go
Spent a week South of the Border, in MayheeKho... little island in the Desert, "Puerto Penasco". NO economy whatsoever except what they can sponge off the gringos, real lodgings quite expensive in the winter, although it looks like you can park an RV cheap. Not so good really.
The other dodge I am familiar with is SE Asia, a place that is growing like crazy, full of developing world ills... sometimes bad air, wierd food ...etc. Yet even still, interesting because it is so different, "exotic". Cheap too, compared to the US and Mexico.
So I decided to take my chances and spend the winter here, in Chiang-Mai Thailand. It has been working out. The Apartment had some problems, the biggest of which was a fungus which was living in the pidgeon dung plastered to the air-cooler on the balcony of my 15th floor unit.
After two months of scrubbing EVERYTHING in the balcony every day, I would say I have the upper hand finally, AND the microwave is back in operation, after replacing a light-bulb and a fuse inside... AND I got rid of the plastic base of the "coffee maker", mounting it to the lid of a mayonaise jar...
What can I say, just adventure after adventure. Really too much to talk about.
Have my hammock set up on the balcony, great view of the Ping River... Put the couch out there tonight as well.
But soon it will be time to leave.
Only I don't want to go,
and that brings us the the dilemma of the present a question best asked in solitude and quiet, to hear the answer that comes from the whispering wind, the chirping birds,
The roar of the monsoon rains,,,
Definitely I will be OUT of here by then!