The Leech Ate My Homework

Honest, Chef -- I had this blog all ready to go, but somehow it disappeared! It could have been that morning in Khao Yai National Park when we stopped to look at the gibbon, and we were all attacked by those savage leeches. They inched their way toward us like tiny zombies, got on our legs, our shoes, even into some underpants -- and fast. They could have swiped my blog.

Or it might have been those monkeys running around, or even that crocodile we spotted in the jungle lagoon. Maybe they got it. Or it might have been one of those half-million bats we watched at sunset on the highway, just before we stopped for an impromptu roadside multi-course dinner that turned out to be one of the best of the trip. While we were all exclaiming on how great the food was from a little roadside stand, maybe one of those bats flew off with it.

Or on our pitch-black nighttime drive up to the wildlife spotting safari, and that roadside elephant that nobody saw, but everybody jumped out of their skin when it trumpeted right behind us. It about blew Clare's ear out, and it could easily have blown my blog away. Could've happened....

Or that first morning on Koh Samet Island, when we woke up with flood waters up over our front step. There are a gazillion frogs out there, all chirping for food or sex or something -- they might have all chewed it up. Or later that day when we took a kidney-busting taxi ride across the island, in search of a decent pizza. We found the pizza, but that blog might have bounced out of the little open troop carrier that we were in. Yeah, maybe that's the answer.

Or I'll bet it was later that night, as Clare and I celebrated our 34th anniversary walking down the beach. While Janet quizzed the roti-maker guy about how he made his dough and we sampled a great banana-chocolate one, we got pretty close to one of the fantastic fire dancers up and down the beach. It probably just burned up from one of those twirling fire torches. It was dark and anything could have happened.

But honest, I was all ready to post it and through no fault of mine, the thing just disappeared! I still think it was the leeches.........