Eunice (Zoe) @admin-8 ?

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  • Eunice “Zoe” commented on the blog post Solo In Bangkok   12 years, 1 month ago · View

    Well, Dave, the thing about BKK is that you can dart in and out of aircon buildings. Going to have to forego CM this year. Supaporn just wanted to get back home and not do the 9 hour bus ride to get up there. Now, Samui is the priority. And the visa run. And the […]

  • Eunice “Zoe” wrote a new blog post: Burmese Repatriation (or not)   12 years, 1 month ago · View

    A couple nights ago I went to the Thailand Foreign Exchange Club in the penthouse of the Maneeya Building to sit at the bar along with all the foreign correspondents and reporters and see a documentary and listen to a panel of speakers about the repatriation (or not) of the 160,000 Burmese refugees in the […]

  • Eunice “Zoe” wrote a new blog post: Solo In Bangkok   12 years, 1 month ago · View

    From rice fields to the Royal Bangkok Sport Club! Took a short cut yesterday, saved money on a taxi, and hiked a trail across the golf course of the club. On through a construction area where a guy let me through a door in an iron wall and then out onto the sidewalk and the […]

  • Eunice (Zoe) wrote a new blog post: On A Rice Farm Korat Thailand   12 years, 1 month ago · View

    Following our trail from Bangkok to Tak in the west of north central Thailand to Sukhothai and then east to Lop Buri and further east to Saraburi, Supaporn and I ended up at her home about 50km outside of Korat City (Nakhon Ratchasima) even further east. She lives 300km northeast of Bangkok and 20 Minutes […]

  • Eunice “Zoe” wrote a new blog post: Saraburi Thailand   12 years, 1 month ago · View

    Buddhist legend holds that during his lifetime the Buddha left footprints in all lands where his teachings would be acknowledged. In Thailand, the most important of these “natural” footprints imbedded in rock is at Phra Phutthabat in Central Thailand in the city of Saraburi.

  • Eunice “Zoe” wrote a new blog post: Monkeys In Lop Buri Thailand   12 years, 1 month ago · View

    Lopburi is famous for the hundreds of crab-eating macaques that overrun the Old Town, especially in the area around Phra Prang Sam Yot and Phra Kaan Shrine, and there’s even a monkey temple/amusement park where you can buy snacks to feed to them. Every year the town throws them a bash…a huge buffet meal. That […]

  • Eunice “Zoe” wrote a new blog post: Sukhothai Historical Park   12 years, 1 month ago · View

    We stayed in the Ban Thai Guesthouse in New Sukhothai on an old road full of backpacker guesthouses bordering the Yoh River that runs through “new town.” Unfortunately during the floods of 2011 the city was inundated with water and you can still see sand bags lying around in front of the buildings. Subsequently they […]

  • Eunice “Zoe” wrote a new blog post: Loy Krathong in Tak Thailand   12 years, 1 month ago · View

    Krathong takes place on the evening of the full moon of the 12th month in the traditional Thai lunar calendar. In the western calendar this usually falls in November. Loi means ‘to float’, while krathong refers to a usually lotus-shaped container which floats on the water. The traditional krathong are made of the layers of […]

  • Eunice “Zoe” wrote a new blog post: Doug Brings Electricity To Samui   12 years, 1 month ago · View

    Doug, my son, flew into Bangkok yesterday from Oregon to fly out again two days later to spend his annual several months with his wife, Luk, on the island of Koh Samui. We had a bit of a scare just before he arrived because a scheduled utility maintenance on undersea trunk wires went bad and […]

  • Eunice “Zoe” wrote a new blog post: Thanksgiving in Bangkok   12 years, 1 month ago · View

    Thumbnail The American owner of the Bourbon Street Bar and Grill, just off the Ekamai skytrain exit, really served up quite a TG buffet feast. Oregon Bob bussed it in from Pattaya, about an hour outside Bangkok, and Cinncinnati Bob, a good friend and golfing buddy of my husband’s, interrupted his trip in Viet Nam for […]

  • Eunice “Zoe” wrote a new blog post: Around The World Again 2012-13   12 years, 2 months ago · View

    Well, Facebook has cut into my blogging time. But since I am living in Mexico I love to keep up with my couchsurfers and friends I have made traveling besides friends left behind in the U.S. People say they prefer face-to-face interactions with friends but in my case that is mostly impossible. Anyway I’m off […]

  • Eunice “Zoe” wrote a new blog post: Giving the Finger to the Exploiters, Users and Destroyers   12 years, 2 months ago · View

    The NY Times Magazine ironically published an article called “The Opiate of Exceptionalism” or why, as I call it, that Americans seem to stick their heads in the sand when it comes to a civic discussion of sticky issues. Positive thinking and Magical Thinking are two different things however. As the article says, Carter was […]

  • Eunice “Zoe” wrote a new blog post: Upon Reading Jose Saramago   12 years, 4 months ago · View

    Upon receiving his Nobel prize for literature, Jose Saramago said: “As I could not and did not aspire to venture beyond my little plot of cultivated land, all I had left was the possibility of digging down, underneath, towards the roots. My own but also the world’s, if I can be allowed such an immoderate ambition.” […]

  • Eunice “Zoe” commented on the blog post Another winter in the States I won’t do again!   12 years, 5 months ago · View

    He he, Shannon! Well, I’m going to SE Asia this winter! See you in April!

  • Eunice “Zoe” wrote a new blog post: Long Term Travel   12 years, 6 months ago · View

    “I felt like I was into a new routine and the constanly changing, spectacular scenery was losing it’s ‘novelty’ or ‘wow’ factor. Somehow the 500th spectacular beach had become the norm. This said by a guy who had spent a year traveling a few years ago. It got me to thinking. I think you have […]

  • Eunice (Zoe) wrote a new blog post: A Birthday in Oaxaca   12 years, 7 months ago · View

    Thumbnail I’m counting my blessings that couchsurfing has given me this morning. I had the best birthday ever yesterday! A lovely couple (she from Uh Merca and he from Britain) has been staying with me for the last couple of weeks because their landlady refused to pro-rate their last month of rent. Did my heart good […]

  • Eunice “Zoe” wrote a new blog post: #Yosoy132…I am #132 In The Face of a Mexican Election   12 years, 7 months ago · View

    Meanwhile, as teacher strikes continue in Oaxaca and all over the country, it has became clear that the PRI (the corrupt political party that has had a strangle hold on the country for more than 70 years) candidate, Pino Nieto, is the front-runner for the up-coming election for national president. The government controlled TV media […]

  • Eunice “Zoe” wrote a new blog post: Oaxaca Teachers Strike Again   12 years, 7 months ago · View

    For two weeks now, the teachers have constructed a planton in the Zocalo and in the surrounding streets. Tents abut each other and guy-wires (actually cord), holding up tarps to protect from the rain, extend in every direction…low enough so that it’s difficult for a tall person like myself to make my way through the […]

  • Eunice (Zoe) wrote a new blog post: A Mixe Wedding   12 years, 9 months ago · View

    Thumbnail Click on the photos to enlarge them. The wedding was held in a tiny church behind the Flower Market. We three (2 gringos and 1 Mexican) arrived at 4pm, the supposed time of the wedding. Just one old woman in a rebozo and a young girl was there. But this is Mexico!! So we walked […]

  • Eunice “Zoe” wrote a new blog post: An American Mother in Mexico   12 years, 9 months ago · View

    I often encounter locals in Mexico who are quite shocked to hear that I have three sons…one in the U.S. one in Hong Kong and one in Thailand part of the year. To make it worse my husband is in Thailand also. Why do you let them go there!? Never mind that the kids at least […]

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