Very random. If you don’t feel like following me through the trees jumping from limb to limb, catch me next time. Thai Language: If I say it is different, will you say “duh”? I know there are many languages where intonation is so important that it changes the entire meaning of words. Thai is one of those. The intonation is [...]
OK, it has been a few days since I posted. Maybe because I could refer to the time as dazes instead of days. Chiang Mai is both a place to stay really busy, and a place to chill and read books. Either way it is a very comfortable and hospitable city. The people are so friendly one begins to wonder [...]
Sitting in a Starbucks in Chiang Mai I feel like I am in a familiar place. This could be the Starbucks in Perth, in Lima, in Panama City, West Los Angeles, NYC or Dubai. Every civilized place on the planet has at least one. Sorry Bocas. Chiang Mai has like seven. On any continent they are all exactly alike. The [...]
As promised, I am sharing with you an amazing thing available here in Chiang Mai. I have no idea if this is done anywhere else, but there are a bunch of places here in town that offer this. I paid for a half hour. Next week I will do an hour, and bring a book. Afterwards your feet feel like [...]
There are thousands of little stands, mostly selling handicrafts. If you stop to look at something, you get a huge smile and get handed a giant calculator with the price for what you are looking at on it. This is a very slow season here,and due to the political unrest or the alignment of the planets, it is a very low [...]
This is where I am staying: http://www.viangbuamansion-chiangmai.com/ Really nice room. Room service 3 days a week. WiFi, TV, and a fridge for about $375 a month. My cousin has lived here for almost 5 years. They treat him like he owns the place. Hell, maybe he does. I just got back from the local open air market. A lunch of [...]
I think everyone will agree that you should always retire to a warm inexpensive climate. How inexpensive is Thailand? Good question. I have done a little poking around. Fruits and veggies, canned goods, milk, almost same-same Bocas. If you buy off the street carts, cheaper. Services…really inexspensive. I took six days worth of laundry, the normal stuff, into a laundromat [...]
OK folks, I am sure I made it clear that the real reason for this trip is dental work. It is less expensive to fly 3 time zones to another continent and pay rent in an apartment for 3 months, eat every meal out and do some sight seeing than it would be to get the work I need done [...]
On To Chiang Mai! Last impression of Bangkok, same same as my first impression. It is No Dubai. That is not neccesarily a bad thing at all. For instance, in the UAE, where the landscape is not developed into skyscrapers that redefine architecture, it is sand, and more sand. Here, there are few tall buildings, and all of them rather [...]
Hello friends. I have not posted for so long that the gulf of Mexico still had shrimp in it. One of the reasons why is that Mary Ann and I are getting pretty settled in and few things surprise us any more. Plus, she is working so hard that the weekends turn into R&R, which she deserves. But two big [...]