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Politics and Driving in Nang Rong

June 27th, 2011 1 comment

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 [...]

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Our First (Four Wheeled) Vehicle.

June 17th, 2011 No comments

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. [...]

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Construction

June 17th, 2011 No comments

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 [...]

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June Update

June 17th, 2011 No comments

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 [...]

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