People always ask me if I was drunk the previous night, but I have yet to actually get drunk. The rum I've been drinking is 40 percent, but I can drink the better half of a bottle and still operate heavy machinery. They just expect me to be drunk, but my act is together, fancy that! It was pretty cold this morning, and we didn't launch on the raft until about 10:30 because a group of tourists happened to be too heavy for their raft, and bamboo had to be added. The bamboo rafting was one helluva trip. It was like some National Geographic shit. And about four hours – we took this instead of the hour and a half plus drive over dirt road. Two or three times we went through pretty rough waters too. The first time we crashed I kind of went flying into David in front of me. Twice the driver of the raft had to sav' out and get in the water to dislodge us from rocks. He was a total animal. We finally arrived at the sub-district office around three in the afternoon, and I ate a plate of fried rice as well as a bowl of rad na (stir-fried noodles, veggies, and pork in a gravy/broth that is fucking sensational – plenty of MSG methinks). We went with Nayok Satiyen back to the Elephant Home where I finally got to bucket shower my dirty-ass body. It felt nice. Then I tried using the Internet a bit, but it was generally pretty slow (hey, satellite). Started them drinking around five or six, managed to say a few charming words in Thai, and everyone was in high spirits. Oh! Almost forgot, first time this trip my guts got the best of me and took a wrong turn! I scurried to my room to do the dirty dirty in discreet fashion - just in the nick of time! Yippee!! The Nayok took the second bottle of “blended spirits” away before we could do much more damage to it, but after three cans o Beer Chang I actually got a little buzzed. Then I went to bed.
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