off the road

The Brethren, being Protestant, also drove Fords, of course, but we distinguished ourselves from Lutherans by carrying small steel Scripture plates bolted to the top of our license plates. The verses were written in tiny glass beads so they showed up well at night. We ordered these from the Grace & Truth Scripture Depot in Erie, Pennsylvania, and the favourites were 'The wages of sin is death' and 'I am the way the truth and the life.'
Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days

That Thai resilience is mirrored in freshly painted lemon yellow walls of Khun Lek’s restaurant. Just off Patong beach, Khun’s staff ran upstairs as a wall of black water filled the alley. Now, her diners sit outside on temporary seating as work goes on in the bare restaurant. As sea breeze blows into the narrow lane that connects beach to restaurant, you wouldn’t guess anything was wrong if you weren’t sitting on bare concrete. And if there’s one place that can pull off eating dinner in an alley as if it’s the most natural thing in the world, it’s Thailand. After steamed fish and a little bowl of rice, we move on to the crowning glory of the evening, banana boiled in coconut milk, served with sesame seeds. Such Thai food is guaranteed to send you into raptures of delight through the streets of Patong.

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