Mae Hong Son Province- February 6, 2004

It is hard to believe that my time in Mae Hong Son has ended. Time has passed SO quickly. I am in Chiang Mai for the weekend and am finally relaxing. As I was driving from the airport to the hotel, I began to cry. I suddenly realized that I had been holding on to my emotions so tightly for the past three weeks. A survival technique on so many levels; the basic emotional and spiritual preservation – going to the camps, day in and day out, you have to remove yourself from the situation in order to keep some semblance of normalcy.