Tag: ไปเที่ยว
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Mother and the Bicycle Men
My train ride from Bangkok to Chiang Mai was enjoyable, though I didn’t do as much sleeping as I would have liked. So far when I have traveled by train, I have always traveled second class sleeper. On such a train the seats are arraigned in groups of four. On this trip the three people…
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To Laos for a Visa
So the last two days I made a run to Laos to change my Visa from the one that allowed me to study to the one that will allow me to teach. Everything went smoothly; God be thanked. Linguistic notes: Spoken Thai and Lao are pretty related. Listening to kids count, and doing prices around…
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Random
I say random because it’s not everyday that I set out to go bowling and find myself at the Cambodian border instead. Yesterday Pi Tot invited me to go bowling. We never did make it to the bowling alley. Before we left his house he needed to meet with someone. That someone was a little…
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Ubon
I had a good visit with friends in Ubon this past weekend. I rode the train up Thursday night (skipping class on Friday). I actually slept pretty well on the train. Not realizing a breakdown during the night had put the train two hours behind schedule I got up earlier than I needed to. The…
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Ready for Bed
I like having things to write about. There comes a point, however, when a day is so full of sights, and sounds, and tastes, and smells that it grows harder, rather than easier, to write anything about any of it. The brain is tired from processing so many new and exciting things. And even if…