May
14
Journal from Chiang Mai
I’m in the backpacker bar with the cover band and the beautiful waitress.
Noticed the flower-selling children were worked into a rambunctious fuss by some tourists with cameras.
Then the kids, two boys and one girl, started chasing each other around the bar and out the door.
One Thai patron, and the lead singer of the cover band, shouted after them. The patron caught and chastized one of the boys.
All the kids wandering around, seemingly left to their own… they’re actually babysat by the culture?
