street life

Somethings in the air in Uthai Thani.... and it's making me giddy on life. Oh how I love this town and these people.

I love the little interactions that happen because life is lived outside. Today I was biking home from school and passed 3 people resting in the shade on the side of the road. I said hi as I peddled by and they smiled and commented that the air was low in my tire. So I stopped and they came over to help me add air. As I was adding air they were asking me where I was headed and where I was coming from. While we were chatting my phone rang and when I went to answer it they immediately took over the pumping of the back tire and when they were done they moved to the front. So helpful, so caring, so friendly, so easygoing.

It's amazing what a little air in your tire will do for your speed! I was cruisin! But I managed to stop to get some grilled bananas for my friends. All over town people set up little grills or burners in front of their houses and sell anything from sliced pineapple, to fried chicken. I love the thai practice of showing up at a friends house just to give them food and do it whenever I can. Today it was grilled bananas that come drowned in caramel-ish sauce for Naa Ow. And I got to shoot the shit for a little while w the banana lady who I say hi to outside her house everyday as I bike whereever I'm off too and she sells sits under her umbrella and adds coals to the grill. She just sits there all day till she runs out of bananas and watches the street life as she flips them over and over.