Posts from ‘August, 2009’

I’m going to start this one off from the end, my commute home. A little more about driving in Thailand.
The common wisdom of “you turn your lights on at dusk so other people can see you, not so you can see them” hasn’t quite made it to “common” status here. It is [...]

Kitties!

…. Waitaminute
Alright, before we get serious, you need some advice.

Now, Kitty:

“We’re all in this together.”

There was a tiger enclosure with a somewhat haphazard safety system. I’m pretty sure that a tiger could take that door down if they wanted to ignore the electric fence.

It did mean I could get very close.

If I had stuck [...]

“If it’s a fine that I can pay here, why am I passing it to him discreetly in a folded piece of paper?”
I went to Bangkok for the first time today. Suvunamarbi International Airport is on the Southeast outskirts of Bangkok. It’s a place that I have been in several times, but never [...]

“4 .I’m going to be alone.Oh being alone. I’ve got a lot to write about that, but I want to get back on the road.” -me, 2 years ago.
I never did write more about that, probably because I could never figure out quite what to say.  
It’s tough to write about.
Today was a perfect day. [...]

I went to the largest floating market in the world today.   A lot of thatched huts linked together by bridges on top of a large muddy pond.
It had as much to do with thai culture as an Applebees has to do with American culture.  It’s all synthesized and shrunk and commodotized and made kitsch. [...]