The Wave. Chao Phraya River, Auyuthaya, Thailand. July 2002
Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I had been in-country for perhaps six hours, arriving early in the morning, napping at the airport, and catching a six am train north from Bangkok, to the ancient imperial city of Auyuthaya. Walking east from the train station (yes, I had a compass) I came to a wide, slowly flowing, muddy river, islands of lotus floating down towards Bangkok. I was the only passenger on this ferry; it spends its day plying back and forth for 5 baht a trip.
I was most likely the first farang the boatman had met that day.