I have to write about the issue of liquids in bags in this part of the world. Everything comes in bags: coffee, noodles, peanut sauce, the tasty coconut dressing that goes on my favorite dessert (mangoes and sticky rice)....
Sometimes the bags come closed with a little rubber band; other times - as with my cherished iced tea or coffee drinks - they are open on top, with two little handles built into the bag. For an extremely uncoordinated person such as myself, this results in some serious logistical problems. How for example, does one drink iced coffee out of a bag while typing at the computer or lying in a hammock? In response I will say only that a good deal of my clothing will stay behind me in Thailand, forever marred by layers of coffee and tea stains (not to mention mud!). Once while staring thoughtfully into the forest I pierced my straw right through the bottom of the bag, dumping the full contents into my lap. Excellent.
Ahhhhh...Nothing beats a good bag of coffee in the morning
Amusingly, the one liquid I EXPECTED to see in a bag - my IV at the Phuket Hospital - came in a hard plastic bottle!
A nifty contraption I rigged up using a hole punch and pencil sharpener stacked on top of each other. I call it the bag'o coffee holderer
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