It’s pretty hard to find, but Magnolia is the best cheap ice cream in Thailand.
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Graffiti in Akkarachat Housing Estate
On the boundary wall next to our old house. This area is now a ghetto.
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Perfect Family Sunday
Max and Mina got new bikes. Max tried his with the training wheels off for a while, and it went fine. We’ll take them off for good soon.
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Difficult decision
@English for Tourism training course at Nadoon Prachason school.
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The Westernization of Thailand
This was all all procured locally. This part of the world will be hit with a metabolic syndrome epidemic in the coming years that will surely rival that of Mexico and their pudgy northern neighbors – we have a Starbucks three minutes from my house, for Christ’s sake.
Note: This round of Hate Gaijin Expansion may be finished for now.
Neither Washington nor Colorado
Forty years of failed US drug policy has culminated in my daughter wearing what appears to be an anti-hemp headband in her preschool parade in Thailand… A country where you can buy marijuana-seasoned chicken soup (not easily, but still), but where possessing it can get you all kinds of ganked, gaffled, or even shot by the police, all thanks to US drug policy.
In fairness, there were also anti-drinking, -smoking, and -injecting headbands worn by other kids, and the only thing frowned upon among those by Theravada Buddhism is the alcohol. That’s why Buddhism is so fucking cool – in a place with such high road fatalities due to DUI, it actually makes sense!
The Hidden River
Last month, the kids and I went searching for a hidden river rumored to run along the property line of our friend’s dirt farm (have no idea what he’ll end up growing there, but it’ll have to be something hardy!!). We went as far as the eucalyptus stand, but didn’t find it. It was a fairly hot day.