So – here I am in a travel agency in Bangkok waiting on my friend Nym to buy her ticket to Sweden. 20 minutes before I went to go exchange some money. When I reached in my bag, I found no money. Meaning I lost a lot of money. Like, more than $700. In a little white envelope. Nym thought she saw a white envelope in the spare bedroom this morning, but I’m not going to put faith into that only to be even more disappointed.

And so I wait. We’re going to go eat, check out the riots, see where a gorgeous scene of ‘In The Mood For Love’ was shot, meaning I don’t find out about my missing envelope until later on today. Meaning this knot in my stomach might be there for a bit.

I’ve lost lots of things, once, even mindlessly forgot an entire suitcase in a South L.A. train station (ask me how long that took to be ‘adopted’) and last night was commenting to Nym about how lucky I’d been this trip, having not gotten sick or lost anything. I’ll still be able to travel, but this means I go from budget planning to living like a local, which might seem enticing to some, but in India might be more than I can handle.

Oh…travel.

[Update]

It was under the bed. Okay, I can breathe. Might not seem like a lot to you, but I’m living on less than $1000 a month. And its the start of the month. And I get paid from my small projects at the first of the month. Meaning, well…it would have been a hungry month, as I had all of $50 with me.

Funny what a few hours does to you though, I mean, yes – it sucked, the thought of…well, nothing really, as I don’t have any savings and am too old to be calling my parents for cash. I had a hour where I pulled an ‘Eeyore’, but as I walked around, I started to realize something…of all the places for me to be without any cash whatsoever, I was with a friend. Who has a spare bed. I mean, had I been anywhere else, I would have been f*cked. Nice as the Thai’s are, they ain’t just handing out free meals. Okay, free expensive hotel rooms, but I’m sure I couldn’t pull that off again. So, sure – it would have been a shitty month and seriously hindered what I had planned in my ‘Summer of Adventure’ tour, but I’m lucky.

And found the money. So feel extra lucky.

Oh…tribulations.

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