This will be my last on-the-road post. I'm taking the night train out of Chiang Mai tonight, and will arrive in Bangkok tomorrow morning. I'll spend the afternoon taking care of some important errands (dental work, seeing the new Superman movie), and then I fly home Thursday morning. I'll be back with my family in NJ on Friday. Sometime this weekend, I'll finish the rest of the posts about the last days of the trip.
Today I'm trying to frantically finish my souvenir shopping and suit-making. My tailor is hard at work on my 3-piece suit and silk blouses, probably cursing the day that I entered the shop. The whole package is costing me a little more than $200, exactly what I'm prepared to pay for the same quality of work in the US. But here, I have the joy of making them fit every garment to my body perfectly and demanding (nicely) that they fix every wrinkle and tuck that I don't like. And refusing payment if I'm not happy. I'm going for my 3rd fitting this afternoon. I've had the skirt completely re-designed twice. And I have a feeling that this won't be the final fitting either.
Am I my father's daughter, or what?
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