Khun Tan National Forest

Khun Tan is a national park about an hour drive from Chiang Mai (3 hours by train. If you're curious). It's a beautiful, jungle paradise that, by some amazing circumstance, Payap owns property in. That's right, we have a camp with cabins, a kitchen, sort of a pool (sort of a slime bath, though) at the top of a mountain in the middle of a national forest. That means no neighbors, no foot traffic, and someone else empties the garbage cans. It's beautiful. I spent last weekend by myself at the cabins reading, philosophizing, and enjoying nature. I don't think I've ever, in my life, not seen another human being for 24 hours. It was a grand adventure.

The aforementioned train ride.

I didn't know a place could be as beautiful as Thailand before I saw Thailand. This is my view from the train.

Made it to the bottom of the mountain. Now to get to the top...

When you travel around Thailand you have to be very wary of decaged edges. The second you take those edges out of their cages they just go WILD!

It's about a 3 hour hike from the train station to the cabins.

But I arrived!

Why does one hike to the top of the mountain for a weekend alone? The view.

[Caterpillar] Puppy pile!

I wasn't the only one hiking the mountain...

I'll save the fruits of my philosophizing for later, but it involved reading some Cicero, Plato, and the Gospel of Luke, with lots of thoughts on friendship and human interactions.