Thailand: Take 2

We rented motorbikes on the 13th and headed to Northern Thailand.
We spent the first night in Chiang Rai, but the next day headed to the Golden Triangle, which is where Laos, Thailand, and Burma (Myanmar) meet. It was pretty cool.
That night we headed to Mai Sai so that we could cross the border into Burma (Myanmar) the next day. It was expensive, but we got the Visa and the stamp to go in and visited a little village and did a little hiking. It was cooler than we expected. We talked to a lot of people. Burmese children = adorable.
We snagged a hitchhiker (friend of a friend of the KW's in Chiang Mai) and headed to Mae Salong, where some of the the Chinese Nationalists settled after the Communist take over. It almost felt like home again. We drove though soe moutains and found some fun hill tribes off the beaten path along the way.
After Mae Salong we dropped our hitchhiker off in a place called Fang and saw a neat little agricultural camp run by some fun "save the world" types. We just missed a pig being killed, but we watched them cut it up and ate some of the intestine.
We couldn't find the hot springs we were looking for that night, but stayed in Chiang Dao.
The next day we went to the elephant camp, where we saw a show and then ended up taking an hour and half elephant ride though the jungle and a river. It was wicked expensive, but pretty cool.
We found a waterfall in the afternoon and drove through some more mountains all the way back to Chiang Mai. We'll go to service again this morning, maybe get a Thai massage this afternoon, and then head out for another trip to check out some more hill tribes.