As we travel around playing our game, dramatic things are happening around us. We are in Thailand now, where people are thronging Bangkok in political protest. From our vantage in Chiang Mai, the only awareness we have of the protests and the unrest is from newspapers and CNN on TV. Last night in the night market, I heard a snippet on the radio in English, where a young man was shouting about terrorism. Sounding much like the antiwar rallies in the '60s and '70s, the guy was reading the United Nations' definition of terrorism and the killing of innocent people, and applied the definiton to the government.
The Icelandic volcanic ash that has shut down air travel across northern Europe is, of course, extraordinary. Undoubtedly it will affect and impair us, but we don't know how just yet. Reading the English newspaper reports about the projected eventual shortages of foods into Europe isn't sounding great.
Off to our noon meeting to hand in our results for Chiang Mai and to hear what's next.
This morning, we did two scavenges - a funicular ride to the mountain top, and a drive to the town of Lanphoun to do four scavenges involving finding wats and cherries.