Robyn Eckhardt writes: The Photographer is settling in at a hilltown in northern India's Kullu Valley, and I'm deskbound, weighted by deadlines and unfinished tax returns. Feeling a bit sorry for myself, to tell the truth. But it's nothing that a half hour of mind-travel won't cure.Hard to believe that we were in Hat Yai jTypePad - Edit Postust over two weeks ago. Our last visit to that southern Thai city  was 15 years prior. Then, we'd arrived via Trang, sweaty, dazed, and little ill after two hours crammed into a gold metallic hot-rod share taxi driven by an amphetamine-addled speed demon. It was evening, and we soothed ourselves with an a/c ...