The strays of Pattaya
Sitting in some shade waiting for our Uber the stray dog wanders over. She’s cute, the right size, medium and apparently friendly. Her fur is shades of brown and white with floppy ears. I put my hand out and she dutifully licks it. In my other hand is the ice cream cone we’d bought from the stand. Of course it’s hot, it’s Thailand in July. We had spent an hour at the Giant Buddah that sits in the hills above the city and affords expansive views of the sprawling city and bay of Pattaya . It’s breezy up here thankfully as it’s another humid afternoon , I say afternoon but it’s humid at 7 am. I share the remainder of my ice cream with the stray who licks the ice cream out of the cone first then crunches away. Our Uber arrives and we head back down through the city and to our hotel. Sadly this is not a normal vacation, though I’m enjoying my first time experience in Thailand. Its people seem as warm as the climate but my brother is in the final stages of cancer...