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Sue has always been economical. When we were first married it was by necessity. I was a poor graduate student and she taught at a small private school making half the salary of a public school teacher. She shopped garage sales and thrift stores. Our circumstances are better these days and she buys designer clothes, [...]
Sue and I have just returned from Lanta Island, which I’ll talk about later. We arrived in Bangkok on the 27th for a few days to enjoy Christmas. Christmas has always been a big thing for Sue, and she cannot complete the holidays without hearing Christmas carols and seeing the decorations. Bangkok is a great [...]
Just as we are getting ready for a southern Thailand trip, Derek Tonkin sent this about vacation travel in Myanmar. I think the tide is turning on tourism to Myanmar. In the recent past you might have been viewed anywhere from politically incorrect to a supporter of a brutal military government if you decided to [...]
Planning the upcoming trip to Ko Lanta required a more effort than I had originally thought. Instead of calling a travel agent in Bangkok to set up the type of trip they think is best for me, or most profitable for them, I did it myself. The first thing was to think of a place [...]
For as many times as we have been in Thailand, Sue and I have not taken many vacations. There was our first time in Thailand when we came with a group in 1995. We spent a week and saw major attractions in Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai. The next was just last year with [...]
I just returned to Nang Rong yesterday from Bangkok. There were some NGO meetings Walai had to attend and I went along. Since I was returning Saturday morning there would be no traffic jam problem, so I took a taxi all the from my hotel to the northern bus terminal at Mo Chit. On the [...]
Overall, insects really are not a problem here in Thailand, and I’ll always contend there are fewer problems here than anywhere else I have lived. There are some, however. There are these small ants, as small as any I have seen (thus no pictures). They will find food anywhere you put it within fifteen minutes. [...]
Insect problems are surprisingly absent from this part of Thailand, contrary to my years ago image of what Southeast Asia was like. There is nothing to correspond to the yellow jacket plague in various parts of the U.S. when you try to eat outdoors. Everyone eats outside here nearly all the time. The kitchens and [...]
You can see the two finger salute in this picture of four of our girls. The little one is also doing it below the bottom of the picture. Every Thai girl under the age of 30 has to do that in every picture. I suppose I should find out what it means. I took that [...]
by Walai Jantawiboon Today (Nov 26th) is Sila’s birthday. (Sila means “Rock”) and I went to see him and his two grandmothers as I do once a week. I went one day late to make it on his birthday and went alone because my partner is out for a Children’s Council meeting in another province. [...]
