Road Trip. Chiang Rai.

As Jay and I sit here on the bed eating shrimp flavored cashew nuts and drinking the gourmet green tea we had taken with us from Phu ChaiSai resort, we reminisce about the adventures we just had in Chiang Rai. This roadtrip in the middle of February 2021 was for two reasons. Firstly, my father had recently passed away across the border in Cambodia, and before he died we had all agreed to a roadtrip together. We had talked about either a motorcycle ride around Angkor Wat or one around Chiang Rai, and while I had wanted to ride Cambodia up to Laos he had seemed homesick for Thailand, so I think we would have traveled to Chiang Rai, or possibly made a full circle of it. So that was my first reason for going. Secondly, I needed to return to America for a few reasons, not the least of which was to return his ashes to the other place he had been homesick for; Chicago and Darrington. This meant I had to leave my beautiful wife, for whom I have never properly married, so for whom could not legally travel with me to America (Because of Covid). Fucking borders. Anyway, we only had a few weeks left before we would part ways for an unknown length of time, so this camping road trip escape seemed appropriate... necessary.