Beach Living is Tough!
Thai beach living takes years off your life! My current briar patch Remember, the LEFT side! No! Not another sunset! I sleep in the red. I know ya’ll are thinking that after two weeks on the tropical Thai island of Koh Samui, I’d be the most relaxed person in the…
Read MoreThere is Style in a Thai Train
I like getting romantic on a Thai train Cold, clean, and comfortable The Trains of Thailand rank somewhere just below Chinese and Russian trains. They are not as nice as either, being much older than Chinese trains, and more basic than the Russian ones, though there are good points. First,…
Read MoreWhen is a New Day a New Year?
I don’t really care if its December 31 or January 1. Is it the year of the Ox? Yankee, Go Home! This way to the hotel? New Year’s celebrations have always escaped me. I cannot fathom why we put so much emphasis on a mechanical function of a man-made chronology,…
Read MoreBangkok Traffic is Insane!
How odd, roads full of idiling cars going nowhere fast. Red lights to the horizon! The downtown parking lot Each morning it wakes me up, as its foul smell penetrates the hotel I’m staying in. I don’t really know how the street-side vendors survive, for the carbon monoxide fumes from…
Read MoreDon’t Mess With the King of Thailand
You know your in Thailand when you see HM Bhumibol Adulyadej everywhere A younger, dapper King Pretty paintings in Bangkok traffic Seventy-two years of style Yesterday, in making my first Thailand-specific weekly PhotoJournal entry, I went looking for a Thai flag GIF. I wanted to put the flag of Thailand…
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