Lunch with Expats.

So as many people know there is a huge American expatriot culture in Thailand. Today I just happened to meet two interesting italian/american expatriots who've been here since the late sixties. They were an interesting pair of Vietnam vets, who had gotten frustraited with the States and left one day to never go back. They didn't offer an explaination as to why, and I didn't want to pry.

But they were an interesting couple of gentlemen who seemed amused by my 'young indepent liberaltarianism,' I'm not really sure what that means let alone if that's what I am. All I said was that I'd prefer not to talk politics and that it should be about the person not the party.

I made them laugh, and aparently that was enough to earn me a free meal of cheeseburger and fries. They kept stalling me from leaving, asking questions about how life back home was and comparing it to the states that they left behind. I think that in the end they were just two lonely old men, eager to catch news from home even though they had left along time ago.

And tomorrow morning at o'dark thirty (like 6:30am) I'm heading back to that bar becaue it's the superbowl... and they promised me free breakfast.