That was one hot wok! This is why stir fries and other dishes made in a wok just aren’t as good when made at home in North America – they just can’t get hot enough! The BTUs of the gas stoves are too low, unless you get one special. But here, no problem! We [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Thailand’
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 [...]
on a farm
Excuse our lack of updates but we’ve been distanced from the Internet connectecd world, first at sea on a boat during a dive trip followed by our first volunteer stay on a farm run by a Canadian man and his Thai wife and their children in the Issan region of Thailand .
We will aim to [...]
of manta and moray
We’re back on dry land, although our bodies haven’t totally figured that out yet. Dive safari over, and quite possibly there will be no more diving on this trip. But what a good safari.
We didn’t see everything. We had no whale sharks, although many on the boat did enjoy one. There weren’t even any white [...]
Certifiable
As I sit and type this post, I look to the left, and other than rIAm at the computer next to me, I see the dive shop. Straight ahead I see the open-air restaurant run by Ban’s Diving Resort, where we are staying. And to the right I see the sun beginning its nightly plunge [...]
Heading to the land of smiles
We’ve spent a glorious laid back week here in Pulau Pinang. That is Pinang Island for non-Malay speakers, also a state in Malaysia, which is not as you may have thought the home of Penang curry. We haven’t yet figured out where that type of curry is from, but right now I suspect it’s an [...]
tough choices
I truly wish I had time to post, really I do. So I could tell you about Teman Negara, the 130-million-year-old virgin rainforest in Malaysia we got to by a three-hour long boat ride up river. Admit it — some of you would like to read about virgins, or maybe you’d just like to read [...]
