Reading while traveling.

You can download all the books you want on your iPad or reader, but when you are at the beach in the sand with the salt water on your hands and the sun in your eyes their is nothing like a good paper back book.

Second hand book stores charge up to $10 for a used book so thank you to all those travellers that bring a book or buy a book and leave a book.

Though at times they are mostly in Dutch or Swedish, we have found some great reads on our travels we might not otherwise have read.  Okay and just some silly ones too.

I read a book Angels of Pataya by GT Gray about the sex trade in Thailand.

The Empower Foundation

It gave the history of slavery, rights of women over the years (or lack thereof) and interviewed about 25 prostitutes in Thailand.

When a people or country are poor, they will sacrifice to those who are willing to take advantage for their own pleasure, greed, self indulgence.

A poor family makes about $1,000-$2,000/ year, their daughter can make almost that much in a month in high season of tourism and send money home, though they won't acknowledge what she does.

What role do we play as travellers in how a culture changes?  Not only in the entertainment industry but in their culture, their environment, the reefs, etc....?....

Spent one indulgent day caught up in a fantastic book.

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

As the writer describes in an interview:

I like to write about ordinary people who find themselves in an extraordinary point in their lives.

Then use language to convey character, philosophy, and action in a poetic way that has a rhythm all it's own.

She writes giving clues throughout the book that work on a superficial and deeper level if you choose to reflect.  Kind of like how life has clues.  Just sometimes we are so busy living we don't see them.

Loved it!  Loved the joy of being caught up in a good book.

But enough rambling.

Thankful for how each resort has some kind of a book exchange.