You may have thought we were dead. You may have thought we had gone down on a plane over the Indian Ocean. You may have thought we’d completely fallen off the wagon, spending our evenings in shady Thai bars, late night conversations over cigarettes and pool, down and out in greater London on a four-day bender, staring at art in the day and hardly working, scraping by, lost in a haze of Moorish glory and Jamon in Sevilla, our lives now a twilight of continual communion.
That would be very prescient.
Screw That, What Happened?
The long story is that we haven’t been in one place for more than a week since the second week of July and my God am I tired of carrying a bag around on boats and buses and planes and trains and life is hard and Sisyphean and sometimes I simply do not have the strength of spirit to imagine Sisyphus happy and besides all that Camus was just ripping off Nietszche’s Zarathustra the whole time but he was cuter and looked good with a cigarette so that’s a more memorable quote but even then the lesson is that escaping existential despair takes a great deal of energy (2nd law of thermodynamics, anyone?!). Short story is I got lazy.
We got a good suntan on the beach in Thailand though.
But SCREW THAT, What Happened?!
Fine.As I write this dispatch we are en route to Barcelona, where we are spending a few days before jetting north to Paris for our first(!) anniversary. Because of the long siesta I’ve taken from you all, I’m now forced to triple time my updates. These will be broken out as follows:
1. The Round-Up: swashbuckling tales of derring-do
2. The Thai Dispatch: Elephants abroad in the Land of The White Elephant
3. The Great Revue: Places. Food. People. The Return of the Kings. Possible Diatribe Content. A fuzzy history of Oman Air.
Since then, we’ve toured islands in Krabi, went scootering around Koh Lanta, lived on fried rice for four days in Phuket, and finally flew to London. Also we keep running into Kai. But that’s another story.
I’ll see you in The Thai Dispatch: Last Isle of the Czar.
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