Chiang Mai is still amazing. This city continues to please me and suggest itself as a retirement destination like no other. But there are other places to see still. Mary Ann will be here in three days. I can’t wait to show her Tiger Kingdom, the silk worms and everything in between. Planning her time here has taken half my [...]

The story starts actually when I was teenager and swam every day, all day, one hot summer in Los Angeles. It turned out that one of my ear canals was narrower than the other and I ended up with ear problems. Since, I have had two major ear surgeries. My ears tend to get more waxy buildup than a dining [...]

I just finished a full Monday thru Friday cooking class. We shopped for raw ingredients. Here are couple shots of the market. Then we went out into the country to a really first rate big cooking school. It has capacity for maybe 30. With tourism as it is the classes ranged from 5 to 9. I was the only one [...]