• An inverse day

    February 19 in Thailand ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C

    Beach swim first, but it turned out to be a garbage collection swim, the whole plastic in the ocean thing is real and I ran into it, what I collected was only a small portion of it. It's truly disheartening what our species is doing to this planet.

    An omelette with coffee on the way back, packing up for the ride to the northern hostel. It has rained a fair bit yesterday so I thought that the waterfall might be running. I take the detour and see that the swing rope is frazzled out and longer and now it can be used. I don't hesitate to play Tarzan, it's fun to be a little kid. The whole morning I have this new song called Adventures of a lifetime by Coldplay in my ears, it's quite disco and I like the lyrics.

    But life is not always all fun, and the chain decides to make it real by coming off the rear and pinching itself between the spokes and the cassette. It took a screwdriver and some very dirty hands to get it off. It's part of being a traveling cyclist.

    The Frenchman who runs Janzo is from Nice and when I tell him I lived in Valbonne, we are instant neighbors.

    I go for a cruise around the neighborhood and find a bakery that is going to be trouble just look at the picture.

    I do a late lunch at Fisherman's Hut and photograph Danmy's setlist. There are a few songs that I should know but I don't, I wish I had sat down to learn some. I'm not likely to jump right in on that bass. No worries he has all the instruments covered and i end up on the shakers.
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