there's sand in my latte: You'll find a god in every golden ...

We spent our days in Chiang Mai eating more and more Thai food, gleefully drinking Chang beers and other ridiculously inexpensive alcoholic concoctions at an outdoor pub we'd hunted down called "Gekko Garden. ... The railway company had delivered the tickets to our hotel, and that night we enjoyed more Chang beers in our two private compartments, the connecting door open between them to give us more space, kids watching DVDs happily, or the darkening countryside sweep by, ...