Renting a white and gold Honda scooter for $5 USD per day, I filled it with the old Smirnoff bottle of gasoline and navigated dirt roads up the side of a mountain for a few hours. Wandering around the jungle, I discovered the Na Mueang waterfall where a few people knelt praying quietly in the running water. I sat with my feet submerged as I soaked up the refreshing negative-ions in the air.
Down the road was a tall tree being harvested for coconuts in order to make delicious coconut pudding, ice cream, and curry.
It reminded me of an article I read recently, proclaiming 150 people died per year from falling coconuts.
That was nothing compared to the scooter-related casualties in Thailand: approximately 26,000 per year. I had almost become part of that statistic the day before at an intersection in downtown Chaweng. That's a story for the book.
I kept my eyes on the road, when there was one.
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