Exploits
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Max and Mina on the train at Khao Suan Kwang Zoo (Khon Kaen, Thailand)
The guy running the train ride understands kids better than most of the grade school teachers I’ve met.
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Silverlake Vineyard, Pattaya
Awesome view! …and the biggest eggplants of this round Asian variety I have ever seen. This is, however, the only vineyard I’ve ever seen with fake grapevines (presumably for evergreen photo props).
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Random Temple in Hua Hin
From our work trip that I brought the fam along on. Damn those power lines.
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Babyblade CBR fun
My friend Ben just bought a used 2011 Honda CBR250R w/ABS in Pattaya and brought it back to Sarakham. I helped him out a little with the details of the transaction and choice of bike, so of course, I got to try it out. Perhaps today wasn’t the best day since it was drizzling and quite windy out on the highway, but that did not deter us. The bike was lighter and more refined than I expected – I would say it’s more tame than beast. The single-cylinder engine is very smooth and steady, and the bike is very quiet with the stock exhaust (even if it is wrapped with…
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Line seems to be the best option for Burma telecommunications
Like it says in the title, Line. My wife is in Myanmar/Burma for a week. I looked up the best options for calling to/from that country before she went, but the telecom market is in a state of constant flux and it seems they the government controls the sales of SIM cards. What sad state of affairs: Third world telecom service with first world bureaucracy! As it turns out, most of the airports and hotels she’s been to have had barely decent wifi, which has left us experimenting with voice/video chat services. Here are the results for using chat apps on Android to/from Yangon, Mandalay, and maybe other places in…
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ornamentals
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Mina and a Monkey
@Khao Kheow Open Zoo, Chonburi, Thailand
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Nice Toilet Kit (Dusit Princess Korat)
We rockin rock glasses, foo! We leverage Agoda points gained by using our account for official trips, and can stay at all but the most expensive hotels in Thailand for very reasonable amounts. Link to the Dusit Princess Korat
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Korat Street Art
Some good, some not so good. The first two seem to have been walls for a building some time in the recent past, but now just serve to host art and demarcate the boundary of this lot.
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Lego Time @Highway Rest Stop 90km from Korat
I don’t know the name of the town because I couldn’t be bothered to look at my phone’s location. However, it’s only fair to note that this is the first fueling station I’ve ever seen to have two 7-11s – one for the petrol station and another, newer one for the LPG filling station; they were about 120 meters apart across the huge parking lot.
