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I just posted an article on scams in Thailand. There are scams related to taxis and tuk tuks, but taxis in Bangkok are a whole subject themselves. I use the sky train, subway, canal boats, walking and the standard air conditioned taxi-meter as the best ways to get around in Bangkok. I have a car [...]
I just happened to run across articles about the “jet ski scam” today and realized I have never said anything about the scams here. Overall, things are safe in Bangkok and the rest of Thailand. Sue and I go to many areas of Bangkok both alone and together and never have any problems. Of course [...]
Our three child homes. Just finished on the right, finished next month on the left.You can see the road coming in from the bridge on the far left. We have just completed our second child home (right in the picture) with one of our families to move in in a few days when some beds [...]
Here we are ready to leave more than 4 hours late. My son Nathan is with me in the back. Tasanee in the light beige jacket. The others are teachers and one of our teenager loaders. I just got off the phone with Mom. She’s seen the news reports about flooding in Thailand and has [...]
Many elementary classrooms in Myanmar are taught by monks. Sue and Gayle Holmes plan to update their teaching methods. I just successfully purchased four round trip tickets on Air Asia from Bangkok to Yangon, Myanmar. Sue and I are going there with two Australian friends to do teacher training under Nargis Library Recovery. You may [...]
It’s election time in Nang Rong I just wrote about our first four wheeled vehicle. A CNN news article today said there are now 800 million vehicles on the road and by mid century that could go to between 2 and 4 billion. The claim is that we are approaching gridlock in many parts of [...]
Our first four wheeled vehicle! We bought our first truck. Up to now the foundation owned two motorbikes for staff transportation. When a larger vehicle was needed it would borrow my or Walai’s car. That will still occur in some cases, but now we have a pickup truck with a song taew back on it. [...]
House #2 under construction. Can you spot the wide pillar along its wall? We are building two new houses, one on each side of our first. The one on the right (#2) is further along than #3, but we hope both are complete by November. One thing a little unusual for this area are the [...]
The girls and elderly meet in our new home’s main room. I came back to Nang Rong for just the month of June to finish up various things. I was surprised at the weather this time. April and May are normally the hot months, and I’m told that May was pretty hot this time. There [...]
Sue ties the string around Bhu’s wrist, giving her blessing. A month has gone by since the last post. Too many things to do here. Yesterday we brought in a narrow scoop backhoe to dig the water supply trench. Just short of 500 meters total. I could not watch them start because I was busy [...]
