Our new house

 

We are renting this house for, oh, about half what a one-bedroom apartment goes in Portland these days. It's amazing. 3 bed, 2 1/2 bath, front and back yard, balcony...

We selpt here for the first time last night. This morning I woke up about 6 AM and was up and about when a rainstorm hit: heavy but brief. It looks like the rains here come from the southwest. I guess it is the monsoon off the Indian Ocean, pushing up into the continent. The plateau that Chiang Mai sits on appears to be the last significant flat area before the Himalayas take over the landscape.

 I get sad for Portland, and probably always will. At the same time, I love it here.