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Chiangmai Night View
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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.
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Beer gardenesque @ Lavender Sky Bar, Chiang Mai
Feels like Nara or Kyoto. Cool breeze, too.
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Last Night of English Camp
I have a student who takes after my pal T in Japan so much it’s scary.
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Lunch at Chumpae
Duck ramen; duck was deboned nicely and bean sprouts were put in the bowl before serving fpr a change, but the broth was bland. Watch out all roadside stands between…
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Testing Latitude
Justin Yoshida’s location@10:34am,12/13 Phra Lap, Muang Khon kaen, Khon Kaen 40000 http://m.google.com/u/m/dS9IWg
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Car update
The Crown is running better than it ever has before. The problem wasn’t the alternator. It was missing six little spring-loaded push pins that bridge the tops of the spark…
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Two batteries, two alternators, one radiator
We’ve been having a run of bad car luck as of late. A couple weeks ago, a cop from Khon Kaen backed into our parked Cefiro and broke off the…