The room is about ten feet by eight feet. But it seems smaller because it is crammed full. Along one wall are a washer and dryer, fronted by packages of detergent and piles of dirty and clean laundry, while another has a beaten metal table containing two gas burners for cooking. On the table beside the burners is a large collection of well-used bottles of fish and chilli sauces, with dribbles of dried sauce down the sides. The other two walls have more shelving c...

Well, there hasn't been much blogging as of late because I've been to Chiang Mai before. I've just been relaxing at the guesthouse talking to other travelers. One crazy thing did happen while I was crusing the countryside around Sukhothai. I was riding and looking around, enjoying the scenery when ahead of me I suddenly noticed a slithering "S" shaped thing on the road. It was about 4 feet long folded, so must have been 6-8 feet stretched out. Could it...

I spent a couple of days hanging out in Sukhothai. More ruins, more eating. Got some good photos. It's odd: sometimes the scenes that you don't think are so spectacular through your own eyes look great once captured with the camera. Anyhow, having a tough time uploading so can only throw 2 up right now. I love the colors on the Buddha statue. You will recall the photo of me in the cockpit of the Boeing? Will, keeping on that same line of getting behind the scene...

I spent several days hanging out in Bangkok, taking the river boat over to China town where I checked out the market selling everything ever produced by man - and in a selection of colours. I also checked out the Chatuchak weekend market which claims to be the biggest weekend market on the planet - there are over 10,000 stalls... really crazy big. My head was spinning. Eating lots of good food from stalls like Banana pancakes, coconut puddings, fruit shakes, fri...

I'm now in the thick of thinks in Bangkok. It's been six years since I've been here, but I got off the bus and remembered exactly where to walk to get to my hotel. Some things have changed on Khoa San road, though. It's not the out-of-control place of old with scantily-clad girls serving drinks from the roofs of vans and drunken foreigners splayed out on the sidewalk in the early morning hours without their shoes. There seems the be far fewer people and it's ver...