Escape to Reality

Greetings from a tropical island in Southeast Asia.

It’s a fairly typical island, as these things go. It took a while to make it here, with connecting flights through Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur. It operates on island time, where breakfast goes until 11am and happy hour is at least a four-hour period beginning in the late afternoon and continuing indefinitely.

Apparently there’s a beach of some sort. (I like looking out at the water, but I’m not a beach person.)

Don’t get me wrong. It’s a beaut...