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Home Again and Top Thai Moments

Home Again and Top Thai Moments

  After 22 hours dangling at 33,000 feet (which is no great achievement, really, especially compared to what Felix Baumgartner managed just yesterday), we arrived home yesterday afternoon around 2 PM.  One of my favorite things about travel? Seeing...

Lopburi Monkey Temple

Lopburi Monkey Temple

  Lopburi is a small town north of Bangkok that looks to be about the size of my own hometown of Anniston, Alabama. Downtown, the main road splits in two, circling a grassy square. There, you’ll find three things: temple ruins (more than...

Lopburi Adventures

Lopburi Adventures

Lopburi Adventures

 
Tap the thumbnail above to see a collection of photos from our Lopburi adventures!
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Yummy Street Food

Yummy Street Food

Clyde samples a puff pastry from a street vendor in Lopburi. (I preferred the strawberry filling to the curry chicken.)
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Chinatown

Chinatown

We make our way down a sidewalk packed with people: men in white surgical masks, women having their facial hair removed with dental floss, young men on motorcycles, young women in plastic flip-flops. The humid evening air stinks of exhaust. Amulet...

Off to Koh Kred

Off to Koh Kred

“You cannot get there by boat,” the Concierge at the Le Bua at State Tower tells me. She sees the skepticism on my face. I’ve been reading a lot about Koh Kred (say “Co-Ket,” like “coquette”), and all my...

Adventure in Koh Kred

Adventure in Koh Kred

Thailand October 6 – Day 2 – Koh Kret

Click the thumbnail above to see a gallery of pics from our adventure in Koh Kred, an island north of Bangkok in the heart of the Chao Praya River.
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