I love this job. My teaching load isn’t heavy, I enjoy doing my work very much and most of all, I get to have a month long PAID summer vacation and 2-week semester break vacation in October, every year. My monthly salary increases 1K yearly plus I have a 3k housing allowance that also increases every 2 years. Sad thing is though, I don’t get to spend all that money by myself. As you know, a married man like me has to hand the money over to my accountant wife so that we spend wisely and set the budget for necessary stuff for our kid and our future. I’m not complaining. I’m not even going over on the details why. Let’s just say it is part of the commitment I made. Sacrifices must be made. I am no longer a bachelor. Sometimes I wish I was, but I should face reality.
Anyway, we initially planned to visit the PI for the summer break, but due to my wife’s pregnancy complications, she is not allowed to go in any form of aviation. So we pushed our plans to that maybe by October in our 2 week break. So what shall we do for our month long vacation? Stay at home? No f**king way! Summer days are too hot here in Mahasarakham and the town gets boring because all the college kids are away. So we plan to go to the beach!
So where to anyway? Pattaya is crowded and full of whores, so a family vacation there is out of the question. Chonburi is someplace we don’t know and not really sure of… Hua hin, been there and it seems really nice, and my wife wants to go there badly. So Huahin we will go.
Checking my directions in Google maps, it looks like a 9-10 hour drive from this town to that part of Thailand. 672 kilometers from our house to the hotel. Sounds like fun! Sunny will be going out for a long drive again. I just hope I don’t carry a lot of baggage or else gas will be too expensive. I estimate around 5k of gas for the whole trip. Pretty decent. Time for a tan!