7 A LEAP OF FAITHThirty-two beautiful, scantily-clad women went to see them off at the bus station and there was not a dry eye among them. Every one of them kissed and hugged Lek and then Craig as if they were astronauts being sent on a perilous journey from which they would probably never return.
Even Craig was starting to believe that he might be better off staying behind, although he would not miss Pattaya hangovers.
This was Craig’s third trip up country and he was starting to feel like an old hand at it. The bus left at six thirty, so it was dark within the hour and like everyone else on board, he tried to get some sleep. Lek went out like a light as usual, but he lay back in his partially-reclined seat drifting in and out of slumber for hours before finally nodding off only to be a
