"Still Another Removal!"

$30/night including American breakfast!

After using up our discount we have moved from the luxurious Buri Rasa down the road a few blocks to the less luxurious but still nice Seascape Beach Resort (http://www.seascapebeachresort.com/). A small bungalow, a little less room, a little more spartan, but $50 less per night and still on the beach with pretty much the same features and amenities. After four sunny days, the monsoon has returned, and this also influenced our plans.

We are still lazing about, Vicki reading a novel a day, most recently Terry Pratchett's THUD! (all the hotels/motels/resorts have small libraries of left-behind books, mostly in Deutsch), but today I hope to get some much over-due work done on the 8,000-10,000 photos we have taken so far. By my count, this is our 39th room in the 82 days we have been on the trip.

When we were in Nepal, below tree-line, I marveled at the lush forests--pine, fir, spruce, a particularly beautiful oak (with Spanish moss) and rhododendron tree forest near Tengboche, and more--and also at the fact that (unlike the Rocky Mountains) there was absolutely no evidence of (nor concern about) wildfires. The monsoon keeps everything pretty moist year-round. I also wondered what the monsoon was like. My curiosity is now satisfied.