http://www.opportunityfoundation.org/ofblog/?p=120 The blog for Opportunity Foundation Thailand and Travel in SE Asia Fri, 27 Mar 2015 14:00:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.opportunityfoundation.org/ofblog/?p=120&cpage=1#comment-140 admin Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:39:22 +0000 http://www.opportunityfoundation.org/ofblog/?p=120#comment-140 I just ran across this website, which is the most comprehensive regarding Malaria that I have seen at http://malaria.wellcome.ac.uk/. I just ran across this website, which is the most comprehensive regarding Malaria that I have seen at http://malaria.wellcome.ac.uk/.

]]> http://www.opportunityfoundation.org/ofblog/?p=120&cpage=1#comment-65 Thai traveler Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:27:31 +0000 http://www.opportunityfoundation.org/ofblog/?p=120#comment-65 One does sleep better at night and surely eat better during the day when knowing you have had your shots? Besides.... when getting your shots, most of those that you come in contact with at the health dept are so excited to hear where you are going that they want to talk about your adventure and the life. As I have always thought... it is not always the destination... but the journey as well. I have taken my kids to Thailand, Cambodia and Viet Nam and have never had any trouble at all. Other than a "queezy" stomach a few times feeling a bit off... we have never experienced any illness at all. We always tend to eat where the "people " eat.. and not only do you get the wonderful flavors of the food in front of you but also the "flavor" of the local people all around you. And they seem happy to see us as well. I remember one time visiting Wat Pho ...it was a blistering hot and humid day... we had just stood in line to get a bowl of noodles and went to sit under the canopy of a huge tree.... just as we were getting settled on the bench.... a lovely old Thai woman came up to us and not speaking any English she made it known that sitting there was not a good idea. You see... as she pointed down.... at the "whitewash" on the sidewalk and then up to the branches loaded with birds... we moved real fast. And thanked her with our smiles which she returned to us knowingly. One does sleep better at night and surely eat better during the day when knowing you have had your shots? Besides…. when getting your shots, most of those that you come in contact with at the health dept are so excited to hear where you are going that they want to talk about your adventure and the life. As I have always thought… it is not always the destination… but the journey as well.
I have taken my kids to Thailand, Cambodia and Viet Nam and have never had any trouble at all. Other than a “queezy” stomach a few times feeling a bit off… we have never experienced any illness at all. We always tend to eat where the “people ” eat.. and not only do you get the wonderful flavors of the food in front of you but also the “flavor” of the local people all around you. And they seem happy to see us as well.
I remember one time visiting Wat Pho …it was a blistering hot and humid day… we had just stood in line to get a bowl of noodles and went to sit under the canopy of a huge tree…. just as we were getting settled on the bench…. a lovely old Thai woman came up to us and not speaking any English she made it known that sitting there was not a good idea. You see… as she pointed down…. at the “whitewash” on the sidewalk and then up to the branches loaded with birds… we moved real fast. And thanked her with our smiles which she returned to us knowingly.

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