Vagabond Rick Travels The World

I typed this one out three weeks ago and just as I was saving on the website, all crashed and I lost it.  That caused me to lose interest in blogging when I was focused on having fun with Pamela.  Besides, this whole story could not be told three weeks ago since Pamela’s run-in with the 21^st Century had just begun.  Maybe it could have been told then, but surely I really had not thought things all the way through at that time.  Some of this may be repeat – I am not sure what I wrote in early July and I’m too lazy to go read it (I rarely read a post – quite sure I will be embarrassed about something… maybe everything!).  I’ll go with the idea that the crash and lack of saves were for a good reason and this is the upside result…

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We just spent three days in the Kanchanaburi area of Thailand - west of Bangkok.  It was nice to get out and see some 0f the Thai countryside, but it was hard to leave Bangkok which I now consider the best city of my life and one that would be difficult to beat on just every level.  Kanchanaburi is most famous for being the place where an infamous bridge spanning the River Kwai was destroyed.  The story that it has now built a tourism trade is one where the Japanese military constructed a railroad from Burma to Bangkok in order to move supplies to its most far-flung reaches during WWII.  Kanchanaburi is much more than a military story, though.

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When we were in southern Vietnam I made a comment that I was glad to see so many dogs thinking this means the residents must not eat them.  As far as the stories that ... [Continue reading this entry]