I am not considering any travel whatsoever for the next six months, aside from getting home. Nutrition has been a serious problem, and I'll be recuperating and dealing with other related health issues. (I won't go into the fungus details, but let me just say there are worse things than athlete's foot.)
I haven't eaten what I'd consider Thai restaurant food in quite a while; "dog rice" mixed with fish goo and the occasional bowl of bird(?) broth doesn't really count. But I can't say the idea of much more Asian food is particularly appealing. I require burritos and tacos, stat.
I was in Tenasserim, on an assignment, and things went to hell. I made it over the border by making promises that were simply impossible to keep, and that lead to 2 months in a 5x4 for "illegal entry", essentially waiting until the Myanmar bounty elapsed. I thought that was the end, until I was shuffled to Bangkwang. It's complicated. I prefer to fully explain once I'm off the plane at SEATAC. First I need to get a passport, though. It is commercial flights from here on out. My employer denies having ever heard of me, which is making this difficult. But I'm (ostensibly) on US soil again, and quite relieved for that.
Divulging that information would be career suicide and certain financial ruin for me. I can only go so far into detail on why we were in Myanmar in the first place but given the situation I cannot reasonably expect a different position from my employer at this point. As far as they are concerned I am still MIA and potentially compromised; once I am back Stateside I expect a wholly different standard of treatment from them, although I have serious doubts that I will continue in their employ once this mess is cleaned up.
You would be unlikely to be able to avoid them, regardless, in the sense that if you would otherwise have dealings with them (or more likely, those who deal with them), you will continue to do so regardless of this. If you deal with them, you deal with them, and if you don't, you don't.
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Also, I suppose thai restaurants are going to be your sworn enemy from now on.
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I haven't eaten what I'd consider Thai restaurant food in quite a while; "dog rice" mixed with fish goo and the occasional bowl of bird(?) broth doesn't really count. But I can't say the idea of much more Asian food is particularly appealing. I require burritos and tacos, stat.
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You would be unlikely to be able to avoid them, regardless, in the sense that if you would otherwise have dealings with them (or more likely, those who deal with them), you will continue to do so regardless of this. If you deal with them, you deal with them, and if you don't, you don't.
The sentiment is appreciated, though.
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