Imagine; your bags packed, caffeine in your system, you arrive at the airport, bright-eyed and chipper, excited to begin a new adventure. Then you hear a most unfamiliar phrase, “You are at the wrong airport.” You probably cant. For most of us, this will never…
Songkran is the New Year celebration focused around rejoicing for the coming storms in the rainy season. As in many cultures, water is a sacred resource, especially in this extremely hot location, and it is welcomed every year. Local people have made a game out of…
So, in many places in the world, there isn’t toilet paper in the stall. Often you have to pay for it. Or, its placed outside the stall probably to discourage overuse. We were out and I went to use the ladies room, which had an…
If you have every lived in Los Angeles, you know about the crazy drivers. And their obsessive need to use their horns. Back when I was living in the land of traffic and smog, I finally decided to go get my California Drivers License. Because,…
You see it all around you in Phuket, especially if you are on the south side of the island. Big, white, Buddha, viewable from most points, since it is so high up. Even at night, it is lit up so you can see it from…
Last Sunday Karim and I were blessed by a Buddhist monk at the Wat Chalong Temple. We arrived to a building next to a statue of a Buddha and some animals around him, reminded me of a Thai version of Noah’s Ark scene… The first…