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Published 4 years, 3 months ago
Tonight we ventured out to a noodle stand near our house for a lavish 60 Baht ($1.60) meal. We ordered in broken Thai (better than NO Thai) and got (mostly) what we intended.
So as we sat there an elephant and it’s trainer wandered past. They were offering little bags of sugarcane for 20 […]
Published 4 years, 3 months ago
It’s odd to think that we’ve been here for over a month already. Most of our time has been sucked up by that bizarre Songkran festival, and the rest by our inability to speak more than a few words of Thai.
It’s amazing how not (yet) speaking the language of the country one is living […]
Published 4 years, 4 months ago
So, if you received our recent email update, you know that we just celebrated the Thai New Year here. This was no ordinary New Year deal. It was a nationwide water fight. Some people were cruising the streets at 3 mph throwing water out of the backs of their pickup trucks; others lined […]
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