hanging out at ban kong rao - "make our home your home"
"...the air quality here - never very high - has taken a dramatic and decided turn for the worse. it is so damn smokey right now. here are the various rumors we've heard as to why overnight visibility has dropped to less than a kilometer:
- burma is burning and the smoke has drifted over the border.
- there is a nearby forest fire.
- the officials enforcing the "no burn" law have been paid to look the other way and burning has been taken up in earnest.
what do i mean by burning? just exactly that; burnable waste is not composted here, it's cremeted. in the hills the farmers burn brush and plant waste, in the town people burn their trash. it happens constantly in costa rica as well but when you factor in a population of millions and combine it with cooking smoke and tuk tuk fumes and motorbike exhaust, not to mention cars and trucks and planes and factories... you get the picture. the air is unbreathable.
we spent most of the day in hiding, venturing out briefly but mostly staying in the cool dark of our air-conditioned room. of course we can't hide forever and i imagine that soon i'll be scootering around in a face mask like a thai ninja.
oh and yoga classes will now be held indoors at the studio across the street. no more rooftop sessions.
luckily our hotel is an amazingly comfortable place to hangout at. in fact after all our searching it may end up being the location we've been looking for. i can picture it.... and i like that my first home in thailand may end up being my ultimate home in thailand..."
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