I may not be keeping up with the news while traveling, but one subscription I was sure to keep was the Chicago Magazine’s weekly “Dish” newsletter. I may not need an email digest about shootings in West Virginia and bombings in Iraq, but don’t think I’m going to ignore the Chicago food scene.
Anyhow, the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Asia’
a different road
same same, but different
Two tales for your reading pleasure.
Tale #1: Muang Swa By Night
The cool towel, rather soothing on this warm evening, is placed on my neck. The older man moves around the towel. Then I feel his firm grip, on the back of my neck, and the massage begins. His hands knowingly and strongly begin to work [...]
eating our way through asia
So as you may be able to imagine (or tell from our photos), one of the things rIAm and I are focused on during our travels is food. And perhaps we’ve talked about food a bit on this site; we’ve definitely shown photos and made commentary on flickr. But when we had a question come [...]
Letter to family from Laos with love
Hello families!
We’ve had a marvelous first day exploring Luang Prabang. Our plans for our first day — to follow the guide book walking tour (i.e. see many temples and other local sites) and visit the Royal Palace Museum — did not pan out BUT that is a good thing! We got side tracked by amazing [...]
Into Laos… and beyond
Today we are headed to Chiang Khong, Thailand from an overnight stay in Chiang Rai and six previous days in Chiang Mai. Although congested with tourists and traffic Chiang Mai was intriguing, especially seen both inside and outside the city moat from a motorcycle. We are sorry to cut our stay in Chiang Rai so [...]
our way or the thai way
We heard Highway 12, west out of Phitsanulok toward Lom Sok, was a pretty drive along the Lam Nam Khek (river). So we swung by the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) office in Phitsanulok and got ourselves (for free) the handy graphic map of the drive, featuring the places worth stopping. We also got the [...]
farang gothic
After a job well done making a garden bed, we pose for a photo. Farang, remember, means (western) foreigner. Our stay at Good Earth Agriculture was good, and we accomplished quite a bit while there, both on and off the farm.
We learned about growing things in a tropical environment, including the process of composting, [...]
on the road again
Well we’ve left the farm and are now in Khon Kaen, although we’ll be leaving here soon too. The farm stay was great fun and a great education, so far described only in the captions of our flickr photos. In case you haven’t noticed, there are quite a few new photos uploaded. And there [...]
