As you might remember, the Butlers flew away from our good home, the USA, and due to that marvel, the International Date Line, arrived in Thailand on Election Day. Of course, we are in the future and so you all had to wait another day for the big event. (Technically, so did we, but whatever. As you will see that doesn’t matter in my la la land. ) Now, I know some of you all can’t imagine what might be behind such foolishness, but I set a goal of remaining ignorant of our President’s identity for as long as possible.  Seemed like a fun game. My family participated to varying degrees.  Rebekah wasn’t about to skip out on Facebook over something so stupid, and so I believe she learned pretty quickly.  Who won the election wasn’t part of the plot in Levi’s book, so he remained ignorant.  Then he started another book.  Happy moron! Sarah was guarding our backpacks out on the sidewalk on day 2 while I changed money in a bank when some Thai lady in a business suit walked out of the air conditioning and attempted to confirm that Sarah (Obviously an American, I guess) was so relieved at the outcome.  Sarah was disappointed that she now knew, and I imagine the lady might have had a different interpretation of her disappointment, but language barriers make political discussion even less appealing than they are anyway, so Sarah let it go.  I remained the Lone Ignoramous for another week (well, so did Levi.  His book still didn’t include any of this in its narrative arc), until we were waiting for the boat to Kho Tao and I overheard some other travelers from Utah discussing their thoughts.  I made it ten days and, I guess, it turns out, “nothing changes on election day”.  –Bono, U2.   Wait, no, he sang that about New Years Day.