We have been enjoying Koh Tao, though it has been rainy and quite stormy at times, with the wind whipping through the palm trees and sand blowing up through the roads off the beach. We’ve been getting weather, they say, from the cyclone that hit Myanmar. The first one. Someone said there’s another one brewing, though we don’t know anything about that yet.

All I know is that I’ve been in a boat on seas that scare the hell out of me, with the Japanese divers clambering to the front of the upper deck, cheering and roaring and jumping up and down with every buck of the boat while the rest of us look wide-eyed at each other, and I’ve puked, and I’ve fallen on my but after losing my balance, and yet I still love the diving and it’s all worthwhile. Mostly.

We have two more days here and then the Southeast Asia Adventure comes to a real end.