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I had difficulty putting my thoughts together on the trip to Thailand. In fact, this is something my wife and I discussed at length on our absurdly long flight back home. Was it the trip we dreamed about? Did it live up to our expectations? The honest answer is no. Don’t get me wrong, we had an awesome vacation. I just think that our expectations were a bit high. Everybody we talked…
Read moreSometime, words just aren’t enough to describe the beautiful wild nature of our world. I captured these videos at the Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The first few clips demonstrate a typical elephant family. Blood or not, elephants form bonds as tight as families in the human world, and, just like in the natural world, they fiercely defend and protect their babies. This particular family was not permitted to…
Read moreFeasting on red chili shrimp on the beach at night – feet in the sand. Returning to the same “on the beach restaurant” the next day for lunch to sample their curry Getting bent, beat up, and contorted in a Thai massage, but it felt so good Seeing that the bar girl culture is unfortunately just as strong as what I read Riding on the back of a scooter Eating dinner with…
Read moreI am going to start by dispelling the myth – Thai people don’t use chop sticks. They have realized that better tools exist for getting food from your plate to your mouth than two splintery sticks. So the next time a Thai restaurant tries to be gimmicky and gives you chop sticks instead of silverware, tell them no thanks. You’ll go native and eat like the Thai people do – with a…
Read moreOne night in Chiang Mai we stumbled into the Riverfront Restaurant and Bar on the Ping River. I can’t really comment on the food as it apparently wasn’t memorable since I have no notes on it. It was probably like most Thai places – scarily extensive covering Thai to American to European. We had spent the afternoon at a cooking school and really weren’t hungry but decided that we had to at…
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