New photos!

I have a bunch of new photos from Bangkok, Chiang Mai and Krabi, and I’ll have a boatload coming from Angkor Wat as soon as I can get them up.
The whole family came out for a few weeks and we toured the Palace and a few wats in Bangkok, caught a few more wats in [...]

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This could get interesting…

In the wake of the situation in Lhasa, France and others are considering a boycott of the Opening Ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics. The possible boycott would include only public officials, not athletes.
Some in France have floated the idea of athletes wearing pro-Tibet armbands on the medal stand or at the Opening Ceremonies, but so [...]

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What’s 5 percent of 5,500 yuan?

That’s how much I plan to invest in China’s new ’socially responsible’ mutual fund.
China seems to be paying a lot of attention to the environment recently, and not only in Beijing, where the pollution is so bad that the world-record holder in the marathon has pulled out of the event in the Olympics rather than [...]

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A 12-year-old boy named Fuck

The little boy I’m doing homework with is Fah. He’s learning the Thai alphabet by writing the letters 50 or so times each in his notebook, so I decided to do a couple to help out.
His brother’s name is Fuck. His full name is something in Thai that I couldn’t begin to pronounce or remember, [...]

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Hitchhiker’s guide to Khao Yai National Park

 
 

From time to time when traveling, you come across something that really should have been made clear in the guidebook.
Since many of the places I’ve been to have warranted less than three pages of attention (generally following a lead in which the guide essentially asks why you might be going there and if you might [...]

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