I’m in Chiang Mai, Thailand, for approximately twenty minutes when I realize just what sort of place I’ve landed in.  We’ve just come off of a weeklong ‘vacation’ from traveling: a much-needed (if not deserved) respite from sightseeing, guesthouse hopping, and zipping, zipping, re-zipping my enormous backpack.  Koh Samui, in the gulf of Thailand, is…