Westerners are a large people. The lumps on our foreheads from the low hanging bathroom doorways will attest to that. I am still struck by the people we met in Thailand. Gentle is the best word I can seem to come up with…elegant maybe, calm and pleasant. Then cut to Tony and I trying to navigate our way through the night market in Krabi, our heads bouncing off one low hanging tarp to another, and the vendor laughing as Tony stands upright too quickly without looking, and dumps the water that was caught in a low hanging umbrella over his head.
We walk down the beach, and a man sitting outside a bar asks Mike where he's from. Mike, reaching about 6' 4", responds, "The United States", the man giggles, and says, "You a big man."
