Once again time has gotten the better of me, as it does. Now it is already mid-November and I have yet to share the rest of our Italian adventures from August. Alas, the show must go on - so I'm starting a Throwback Thursdays (aka "TBT") series. The series will revisit adventures and photos of months or years past that I've missed along the way.
For this first edition of Throwback Thursday, I'm taking us to June of this year. For a friend's birthday, we traveled to the outskirts of Chiang Mai to spend our weekend away from the constant construction and traffic in the city. After a perilous drive at night in a wide van on a narrow, winding road, we arrived in utter darkness to our accommodation. The next morning, we awoke in the treetops - not another house nor human in sight. We were cocooned in nature, cut off from the rest of civilization.
Over the weekend, we hiked to a delicious, cool waterfall in the nest of the forest, sampled homemade curry made with fresh banana flower, rode down the river on a bamboo raft and were expertly prodded and pulled by three local masseuses on the deck of the treehouse. For our friend's birthday, we toasted beers at the local 'pub' (someone's house where we drank semi-cold beers on their stoop), watched a fat lizard hunt for dinner, played some games and ate fluffy birthday cake before falling asleep under a carpet of stars. An unforgettable, and much needed, get-away to recharge.
Here are some more photos from this week's TBT...
