Introduction This is my 17th trip of the Land of Smiles (does anyone call Thailand this name anymore?), after almost 16(!) months of being away. It has been far too long for sure, since I’ve had a pretty fun (and well-documented – from the trip reports here) history here, it’s quite puzzling that it took me this long to go back. Filtering the posts here to “Most Viewed”, after all this time, I find 5 of my trip reports are still there amongst the top, and having read most of them on the tri