My friend Gade, owner of Elliebum's, has just opened up a coffee cafe in a beautiful garden spot nearby.
Pre-New Year's Parade which I encountered on my way to the bus station to Passport Control at the Burmese border at Mae Sai.
Waiting at the bus station, temps in the high 70s at least but most of the Thais are cold - note the fur jacket on the young woman in the photo.
NYE, we crossed the Burmese border into Tachilek. Jim explored while I sipped tea and talked politics, local culture and travel with this gentleman who spoke Thai, Burmese, English and Hindi.
