Much better, I’m the only room on the sixth floor with two windows on adjacent walls making for a nice air flow through the room with air-conditioning for back up. The temperature has been moderate, about thirty degrees and overcast so that makes it easy to acclimatise before the real heat comes out, it has been overcast but the next day the sun is out, it will be hot!
I went down to see if I could stay longer but they are booked solid so I head out in search of another room. I would like to find somewhere I can stay for a week or two so I can “center” myself with some normalcy and keep it under twenty dollars a night.
After three hours of checking out various possibilities from dog boxes to just adequate, I stop for lunch and a coffee, my head is spinning at the possibilities and options.
Dan calls as I’m having a quick bite to eat and we arrange to meet in a couple of hours after he finishes teaching and tells me not to worry he has somewhere sorted out. He is a good friend and we have helped each other out over the few weeks I was in
We catch up and he takes me to a great restaurant for some of the best pork I’ve eaten in a long time. Dans’ girlfriend broke up with him and left back to
After lunch he takes me to the hotel he is staying in and it is perfect. Cheap at thirteen dollars a day for a huge clean room with a desk, sofa, fridge/freezer, closet, bathroom, wifi, air-conditioning and a bathroom – breakfast and laundry included.
It is also two blocks away from the main tourist block that I am trying to avoid, I’m not ready to “announce” my return yet which also makes it quiet and surrounded by locals. This makes the streets safe at night with families and street stalls open late with plenty of people around.
I make arrangements to move in the next day and head back to my hotel for a shower then out for dinner and a couple of beers, feeling less stressed and starting to come down from the travel fatigue I have been feeling.
