Stop 13: Chiang, Rhy did she fall asleep? -- Chiang Rai, Thailand

Our next stop was Chiang Rai, the city with a lot of promise… and a lot of prostitutes.  Sadly it fulfilled the latter and not the former. Our most memorable experience here was in the back of a dodgy massage parlor. Scene: box room with two one inch mattresses laid side by side on the floor, a 70s style television set, 2 westerners, 2 Thai masseuses and 1 unfortunate case of narcolepsy.  Unaware of what was going on just to her right, cam drifted in and out of sleep as she received a backbreaking Thai massage.  Jen, on the other hand, was wide-awake. Her masseuse was not. The hour was spent holding back laughter as this young woman made the awkward starfish on Jen’s face during her head massage every 45 seconds.  Thank Buddha for the language barrier, which allowed Jen to laugh at whatever Cam said. The two Thai women had no idea that nothing cam said was actually funny.  Jen could release her laughter, cam got an unexplained boost of self-confidence and Mrs. Narcolepsy had zero clue that she provided some of the best entertainment of our trip.