To Barbara Sher's French Retreat: Getting there ... The j9 has landed

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Will i Ever get out of here?
I was still sitting with a to do list item remaining in the lounge just prior to boarding ... Emails.  The effort it took to get this sim in to my iPad was inordinate, with treks across the airport in an attempt to find one, then insert one then, activate one.  I think by the end the universe was telling me to "enough with the technology already!!" .  i do feel that i have become umbilically attached to the Internet ... Although I'm deciding that is ok in balance .. I love writing and I love sharing!!

I'm feeling at this point tired and exhausted and wondering why on earth i am doing this!!

flight to bangkok is boarding ....

At Bangkok ...

  I have had very high hopes for this trip for some time ... And the initial excitement of it quickly became replaced with a to do list the size of texas, and the stimulation of throwing myself into two substantial isa events ... The september edition if the newsletter and organising a Weekend social adventure in December for up to 100.

so now I have found myself here in bangkok airport transit waiting samui  flight hoping the excitement will hit me soon.  I very much hope six days is enough for the island life to permeate my bones and enliven my spirit, with a catch up with a dear friend and sunshine.

And ready for the delights awaiting me at barbara's retreat. I have a book to read!!!

Ok ok now I'm on the plane to samui....

Flying to koh samui I am now feeling intimidated by the intensely good looking people on this plane. So well groomed stylish Slim tanned and gorgeous, I feel under dressed and blobby ... Mind you my ankles look like huge round beads threaded over my legs with nothing other than my feet to stop them falling off ... Ugly man!!!
 
They have fed so much food fo me in a very short space of time and I have not refused any of it.  

Sigh.

the coffee club coffee at the airport was damned fine.

I watched Mother and Child last night, my own personal movie screen on thai airways,and it really was so well done, and I cried and cried... Annette bening was brilliant.  I still have a lot of emotion around mum. Even a conversation I had. With a guy on the dog beach brougt up a big ball of emotion the other day.

Bfn bout to land.

LANDED!!!

Wow this place is beautiful. Hatched wooden open air airport was gorgeous.

Luke took time from his job as resort manager for what I later discover is a stunningly beautiful resort, and picked me up. Such a kind soul.

I am now officially excited!!!! Yeeeeee harrrrrrr, that took about 5 nano seconds after stepping off the plane in to this tropical sunny island air, to get in to the groove ,,, and Luke tells me that, motorcycling, kayaking and a boat trip are all kn the agrnda .... he he he very happy.

so we are driving from the airport when he takes a work call ...

"Paul .. Yah mate ... Be back at my computer in about thirty minutes ... Yeep ... Well essentially we can do everything you have asked us for, with one exception.  we just can't do the elephant on the beach I'm afraid, (he turns to me and smiles as he realises how funny that probAbly sounds) ... Yeah i mean id like to. One day, and Its just a bit hard to organize with 8 days notice."

I am definitely i n thailand now!!!!

An hour later ... I am now settled in to lukes little apartment, with my bed in the lounge and a view past the balcony to the bay just a minutes walk down the hill ,,, the beach apparently beckons with a forty minute walk to lanai the local town and many a beach bed cocktail and massage on offer in case the walk is a bit long.

so I am now showered and off to walk the beach, h ave a swiim and maybe buy some clothes.... In my effort to pack light i realized when looking for something to wear in this intense heat, that I havent got anything to wear!!!!

Ok off to explore it is 11 am.
Xx