The last hours....~Joshua

Today is both an exciting and sad day. At 4pm we depart from the Chiang Mai train station, heading south towards the Bangkok airport and the next morning we officially leave Thailand. This is the third time I've had to pack up my bags and leave Thailand behind and I can never help but get sentimental about it all. Of course I am looking forward to getting home, to family and all that is great and familiar about being home after such a long absence. In fact, I wouldn't be very happy right now if I was forced to stay around much longer. I don't have a job or really have that much to do here so it has become a bit boring. That being said, I can' t help but constantly be reminded of all the things I'm going to miss. The amazing cheap food for every meal, the fun of speaking a foreign language, escaping the American media machine, I could go on.....I know I will be back again sometime in the coming years, and that at least comforts me. I'm not sure how many of you are even reading this any more but I will try to make one last post, possibly once I get home, in an effort to throw together some thoughts about the 6 months as a whole.