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March 29, 2006Thai Cooking SchoolAt the Smile Guesthouse I attend cooking school. A Dutch couple and a German girl and I each have our own "station" with a wok sitting on a gas burner....Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on March 29, 2006 01:33 AM
TrackBack | Category: Chiang Mai, Food, Hostels & Guesthouses, Thailand Tha TonSupuat drove me to Tha Tan...right on the Thai-Burma border directly north of Chiang Mai to see several minority groups, Lisu, Lahu, Akha and Longnecks, that live there. Last...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on March 29, 2006 12:36 AM
TrackBack | Category: Chiang Mai, Culture, Excursions, Minority Groups, Thailand March 25, 2006Faithful Tuk Tuk DriverNice to have someone faithful to me. I trust Supoat, in his 50's, with soft face and warm bright eyes. I call him when I need him to drive...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on March 25, 2006 07:53 AM
TrackBack | Category: Alternative Transportation, Chiang Mai, Festivals & Ceremonies, Food, Minority Groups, Restaurants, Thailand Breakfast at Smile GuesthouseI have changed hotels. I am now at the brand new Bau-Tong Lodge with free WiFi that is down little soi 3 off Loi Kroh...for half the cost of the...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on March 25, 2006 07:40 AM
TrackBack | Category: Chiang Mai, Conversations, Expats, Food, Hostels & Guesthouses, Thailand Northern Style Thai MassageThis last week I found a very small, unassuming massage shop...very simple understated Thai Lanna-style salon with rough dark stained wood...a couple couches draped with yellow ochre and red umber...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on March 25, 2006 04:13 AM
TrackBack | Category: Chiang Mai, Massage, Thailand March 19, 2006Chiang Mai Felt Like Home?Have been here three weeks and Chiang Mai did feel like home for awhile...just long enough to get oriented and find the good places to eat. I spent all...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on March 19, 2006 08:34 PM
TrackBack | Category: Chiang Mai, Expats, Food, Thailand March 16, 2006Diamond Jubilee Of His MajestyHis Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand will celebrate his Diamond Jubilee in Bangkok in June 2006. The King of Thailand is one of the most highly respected spiritual leaders...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on March 16, 2006 03:06 AM
TrackBack | Category: Chiang Mai, History, Thai Culture, Thailand Wat Chedi LuangThe oldest (700 years) and most interesting temple in Chiang Mai that had it's top toppled in an earthquake....Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on March 16, 2006 01:33 AM
TrackBack | Category: Chiang Mai, History, Thailand Elephants Monkeys & SnakesA day trip north took me to an elephant training camp, monkey training school where they learn to twist off the coconuts and let them drop from the trees. The...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on March 16, 2006 12:22 AM
TrackBack | Category: Chiang Mai, Excursions, Thailand March 15, 2006Market-GoingTired of the Night Market for tourists, this week I walked to the Warorot Day Market...a market for the local Thais. I bought delicious garlic flavored BBQ chicken for lunch...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on March 15, 2006 09:55 PM
TrackBack | Category: Chiang Mai, Food, Markets, Thailand "Letters From Thailand""Letters From Thailand" is a lovely novel wrtten in 1969 by "Botan", a pseudonym of the Chinese-born Thai female writer, Supa Sirisingh, and recently translated into English by Susan Fulop...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on March 15, 2006 06:13 PM
TrackBack | Category: Chiang Mai, China, History, Reading, Thai Culture, Thailand March 10, 2006Reverent InquiryIn spite of my petty but honest day-to-day frustration with bureaucratic silliness while traveling in most developing countries, I treasure the lives of the people who ironically seem to have...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on March 10, 2006 05:27 AM
TrackBack | Category: Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai, Culture, Thailand March 08, 2006Hope For ThailandThousands of people have been demonstrating for several days and nights in the streets of Bangkok calling for Prime Minister Thaksin to step down. One hundred university and business leaders...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on March 8, 2006 08:22 PM
TrackBack | Category: Chiang Mai, Politics, Thai Culture, Thailand Visa MiseryEvery month my son Doug has to cross into Burma and come back into Thailand to get another 30 day stay in the country. If you are late it's...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on March 8, 2006 08:04 PM
TrackBack | Category: Bangkok, Boats, Buses, Chiang Mai, Koh Samui, Language, Thai Culture, Thailand, Visas March 07, 2006WalkaboutYesterday morning I walked to the Post Office around the corner and down the street and then slowly swung a wide path through the city...dawdling in used book stores, Jonesing...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on March 7, 2006 10:35 PM
TrackBack | Category: Chiang Mai, Conversations, Food, Funniest Experiences, Thailand March 06, 2006British HumorEnding the BBC news report today on the Oscar winners, the anchor noticed that the Icelandic singer Bjork was nowhere to be seen. "She was wearing the white feathered swan...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on March 6, 2006 02:01 AM
TrackBack | Category: Chiang Mai, England, European Union, Funniest Experiences March 04, 2006The World A Playground?A friend recently emailed me asking what it is like to have all the world as my "playground." This was my very brief answer: Well, the best thing about traveling...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on March 4, 2006 07:34 PM
TrackBack | Category: Chiang Mai, Culture, Reading, Reflections, Thailand Chiang MaiFlew from Koh Samui on Bangkok Air (the only airline off the island because Bangkok Air built the airport) and then on to Chiang Mai on budget Air Asia....Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on March 4, 2006 06:18 PM
TrackBack | Category: Chiang Mai, Flights, Hostels & Guesthouses, Markets, Reading, Thailand Good-bye To SamuiOn 1 March I said good-bye to my son Doug and his wife Luk and Ting Tong...their little Shimizu...and caught a Bangkok Air flight back to Bangkok (Bangkok Air built...Read this update |
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