The Great Escape
For better or for worse people come to Thailand to escape. Oh some will emphatically tell you they came to find something but in truth there is a fine line between the two. The very essence of escape allows us a chance for discovery. I grew up in the northern most outpost of the nation. Living in Alaska there was always a long standing truth hanging over everyone's head. With the exception of us who were born or simply raised there just about every adult moved north to get away from something. My parents used to always joke that moving to Alaska was as far away as they could possibly get from their parents and still be in America. I suppose Hawaii would have been farther but the logistics of crossing an ocean versus loading up their cars made Alaska the appropriate choice. As we age the weight of life tends to add up. I think we don't really know that it is happening and many never really realize that it did. We start to compensate in useless ways attempting to