Get out the rye bread and mustard, Grandma, it's grand salami time! Pai oh My! - Dave Niehaus

"What the People Want" - Andrew

(Kids don't try this one at home)

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 Just a couple tired party bros/ lions another hard day in the life of a back packer

 Uber chill party bungalow/ love shack

 Do I look cool or what

 Loced out nias goin crazy

Yeah I know Curtis!

It seems that people these days are always worried about "things".  Cars, computers, clothes, badass DVD collections, basketball cards, etc.  But really, these are just "things".  We don't need these "things", we need nature, relationships, and a sense of being.

I don't really feel this way, but a stoned guy told me something like this once, and it stuck with me.  When we arrived at Pai, we decided to embrace the hippy town's culture of being uber chill at all times.  This involved talking slowly, purchasing scrubby rasta colored bracelets, and having discussions about chill activities with fellow chillers.

We spent our days in Pai renting motorbikes and cruising around the hillsides enjoying the scenery.  We got our motors running, headed out on the highway, and looked for adventure in whatever came our way.

Our first destination was a multi-leveled waterfall that was flowing with chill vibes.  We cooled our steaming hot bodies in the fresh pool areas while butterflies slowly danced above our heads.

There were also some natural waterslides made of jaggedy rocks that dropped into shallow water.  We would have gone down head first like the locals, but we stupidly forgot to bring our jeans and t-shirts to go swimming in. 

"Hey man, check out this natural water massage chair I found!"

It became clear that we were engulfed by the chillness of Pai.  Even a straight faced, serious man like Andy could not help letting his guard down and enjoying a water massage in his Patagonia swimming trunks.  If this isn't evidence enough of how Pai-y we were behaving, we even had a 15 minute talk with two stoney FRENCH guys with terrible breath.  Instead of just making frog croaks at French people like we normally do, we gave them a chance to remind us how toady they really are.

Sorry if you get sick of us using the word chill so much in this post, but I can't really think of another word to describe most this stuff.  To further up our chill levels, we drank some local Kombucha's (also note the chiller bracelets in the background).  If you do not know what a Kombucha is, go spend $4 at Whole Foods for one and prevent yourself from getting cancer.

Here's a panoramic photo Andy shot from a Wat on a hillside.  It's a pleasantly quaint valley full of hippies and strange hill people. 

Another cool site we came across was the Pai canyon.  It involved some dangerous trekking (not joking, we could of died from one slip, but for some reason we weren't acting like our normal pussy selves), but the canyon rewarded us with some breathtaking views.  This picture kind of sucks and doesn't do it any justice, but imagine a similar view that's way better.

At the canyon, we maxed out our chill levels by doing some meditating.  This lasted for about two minutes before Andy took a loud piss that ruined the serene atmosphere.  It was fairly boring anyways.

The best part of the motorbikes was gaining the freedom to get away from the touristy areas and really interact with the locals.  We waved at these local fisherman from the top of a bridge.

Just kidding, the best part of renting motorcycles was smashing twenty beers and cruising down the highway at a 100 kilometers per hour.  We weren't idiots about it though and kept our helmets near by.

At a different waterfall, we were lucky enough to spot a rare weasel monkey inside a cave.  This was just the beginning of our good karma with animals.

One night, we met a loyal dog who we called Jonas that was begging to for us to be his master.  Andy informed him that we were going to be very strict, but fair masters.

Jonas ditched his bitch and hung out with us for the next three nights.  Boy, was he a party animal.  He fought off other dogs, ate hot dogs, and even drank brews with his bros.

Overall, Pai was chill.