Sometimes our life is just so weird it’s comical. Like when we take songtaos from the airport and the one with our packs gets locked but the ones holding humans have nothing protecting them from the cars that drive closely behind them. Or when we scour a market full of fish heads and roasted rats just to find the one vendor who sells plain waffles. Or when we take an uber fancy double decker bus from Bangkok to Chiang Mai, complete with a blanket, a pillow, and a complementary “meal.”
Story time: On our overnight bus ride, we were told that we would stop at midnight to eat a meal. Sweet. Racers love food. So after a few hours of deep sleep in our nice reclining seats, the bus stopped to let us off. “You have twenty minutes,” the bus attendant told us. We stumbled off the bus in a fog and tried to figure out how to get some grub.
We knew that our bus tickets had our meal tickets on them, but that’s about all we knew. We walked into a giant building and found a cafeteria-ish section. “You get a drink or a plate of food,” I began to hear. Being on an overnight bus, I didn’t exactly want to fill my bladder with excess liquids, so I decided to go the food route. Unfortunately, after ten racers got the only edible looking food, there was no more rice. The nice lady held out an empty plate and stared at me. “Ummm, what’s that?” I pointed. “Pad Thai,” she said. Thankfully my thoughts remained just thoughts, because I’ve eaten Pad Thai. And there was no way in heck that was Pad Thai.
I nodded reluctantly. It was that or mystery meat. And after one bite I found a guy on my squad who was willing to take it off my hands for me. Thanks, Cabe! What will our all-girl team do when there are no guy racers willing to be our garbage disposals??
I got back on the bus and found my emergency snickers bar that I had saved from China. I put my headphones in and my eye mask on and allowed the swaying motion from the top of the bus rock me back to sleep.
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After a tiresome yet adventurous journey, we made it safely to our hostel in Chiang Mai. My team is riding solo this month with a pretty cool task. Our job is to seek out organizations and ministries that could potentially partner with AIM in the future. This project is called Unsung Heroes. We are really excited to see what happens this month and what God throws our way. Not being locked in to one given task frees us up to do pretty much anything and everything. Red Light District? Orphans? Shoot I’m even hoping for some elephant ministry.
Peace and blessings.
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