You go to bed with the best of intentions- an itinerary starting early, finishing late, and complete with a checklist. Balanced activities for mind, body, and soul.

In the morning, you hit snooze once, but intend to stick with the plan.

Breakfast starts a little late, and finishes a half hour later than intended.

While optimism still rules, it is going to be one of those days.

For Thailand in these times, Cha-Cha is the word for the day!

Cha-Cha: Slowly, Slowly.
We didn't plan an intense day- breakfast, swim in the ocean, rent a motorbike, head to town to Asia's walmart-Tesco/Lotus, catch a movie, and get back in time for the sunset.
The swim went very well, although it startend an hour and a half late, and we swam 20 minutes longer than planned.
Thinngs went downhill from there.
Lunch was the first challenge. Our favorite el'cheapo restaurant was closed after a momentary opening when we passed by on our way back from the beach. Seems like they are having tax problems...
Tax problems seem to be pretty common here. Not sure which side of the game is taking liberties. Guess it is the same with the US Intrenal Revenue Service- only not nearly as many pages of tax code.
Tesco is 25km from our guesthouse- a little far on our $100 bicycles. We would rent a motorcycle for the day, and make quick work of the mundane and focus on the fun stuff.
Guesthouse out of motorcycles... No problem, happens all the time. Backup guesthouse- no motorcycles. Last-chance guesthouse, the people we don't like to give our money to- no motorcycles. The pattern continues at four more places.
Maybe someone is trying to tell us something.
Next place- big sign attached to a motorcycle:for rent. It was going to be ok. Eventually, we found who owned the bike. "we want to rent a bike." He wanted twice the "going" rate. (Yes, I understand the laws of supply and demand...)
We would not be going to Tesco or the movies today.

(Ice Cream Instead!)

Have a swell day yourself!