Today’s morning excursion is to Doi Suthep. See you at the top!
Category: Moblogging (Android)
Khao Soi for Lunch
When in Chiang Mai, do as the Chiang Maianese (do).
Lavender Lanna Hotel (formerly the Tokyo Sri Hotel), Chiang Mai
We are in, according to one internet review, the “premeire (sic) gay hotel of Asia.” First impressions: Very nice and clean.
Beer gardenesque @ Lavender Sky Bar, Chiang Mai
Feels like Nara or Kyoto. Cool breeze, too.
About 3 hours to Chiang Mai
Justin Yoshida’s location@2:26pm,12/26 Huai Rai, Den Chai, Phrae http://m.google.com/u/m/AL6Y8s
Everybody warned us about the long, windy mountain roads on the way to Chiang Mai, but they aren’t bad at all. I guess it’s because there isn’t a hill in sight standing on the tallest building in Maha Sarakham (my uni’s admin building). I’m moblogging this and eating with Mina right now, and we are in the windiest roads of the whole trip.
The scenery in these mountains looks a lot like Japan, except for the abundant banana trees. I’d rather be sliding around these corners in my old Silvia with speakers blaring ADF instead of bouncing around in a university van, but then again, who wouldn’t?
BTW, Max and Mina are being veritable angels so far.
New underground gas tanks
@ Khon Kaen city outskirts
The owner asked if we were engineers who knew about the system. She probably thought Teera was a fellow gas station owner and I was his Japanese engineer.
Protein snack
We happened upon a stretch of fried grasshopper stands and decided to partake. They were most excellent.
Also, it turned out that one of the princesses of Thailand was in a motorcade behind us and we had to pull over with all the other cars on the road to clear it before she passed. I had my Nikon ready and will post photos later.
On the way home from Nam Nao
English camp was extremely successful this year; our new teaching format worked out very well and feedback from the students has been overwhelmingly positive so far. The biggest complaint I’ve heard is that they don’t want to have class tomorrow, which is understandable, but necessary since last Friday was a national holiday and I can’t let them fall behind the other class taking the same course.
Ajarn Teera is driving and I’m sitting shotgun, my weapon of choice is this trusty Samsung Galaxy 5 loaded with Android 2.1 and an improved Swype haptic input system.
It seems a member of the royal family is in this area because there are police stationed every hundred meters along the highway.
A few miles back we stopped on a particularly scenic bridge and I may have gotten a good shot:
Last Night of English Camp
I have a student who takes after my pal T in Japan so much it’s scary.