Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Dec 8 Thai Rail Way Overnight to Chiang Mai - don't forget to read from the bottom-up

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Lots of nice rice fields in various states of growth cycles. Our final sunset photo before turning in for the night -- sorry Dottie, but we...
Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Dec 7 Last full day in BanPong - saying goodbye to favorites

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Our traditional evening walk along the river was a bit more colorful than usual on this our last night before heading north to Chiang Mai. T...

Dec 3 A Day in the Life of BanPong

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Yupadee's brother has just purchased this fine old historical mansion and compound which once belonged to a very successful Chinese gent...
Saturday, December 13, 2008

Dec 1 Of sandpiles and Cow races

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here cows are tied to a framework of poles and held until needed for the event. It was a colorful, "lubricated" mostly-guys event...

Nov. 30 - Making merit with 1500 monks

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Up at five to arrive at 6:00 with our baskets full of donations to the monks. Actually it will go to the temples in the south we were told...

Nov 29 Getting Down to Business

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Yupadee's two best 5th grade students are given the task of teaching me some basic Thai language. It's a stretch for this old brain,...

Nov.28 Bicycle day

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The view from our morning shower -- a cat curled up in the awning between the rows of shop houses behind us. Roger meets us on our bikes a...

Nov. 27 Dedication of Family donation to Temple

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Yupadee's family commissioned this fine building for their local temple. It will be used to house funeral celebrations. It was made in...

Nov 26. lunch near the orchid farm

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Peg's absolute favorite Thai dish: Som Tam Thai (papaya salad without shrimp) and sticky rice. MMMM. Across from Yupadee's school ...

Nov 25 Bat caves and nearby temple

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at dusk every evening millions, yes that's millions, of bats exit their cave over the period of an hour and spend the night devouring m...