After our stopover at The White Temple, Stu and I made our way to the Thai-Laos border, where you have to cross by boat into Huey Xai. Continue reading
Archive for February, 2011
23 Feb
The White Temple
After four and a half weeks in Pai, we finally got out of that lovely, sleepy small town. We lounged for a couple of days in Chiang Mai and then boarded a bus to make our way to Laos. On the way to the border, we made a stop in Chiang Rai, at the Wat Rong Khun (the White Temple). Funnily enough, during our couple of days in Chiang Mai, we met a guy from Los Angeles who only had a couple of weeks left in Thailand, and who was intent on seeing he White Temple in Chiang Rai. I tried to convince him to spend his time in Pai instead. I mean temples (Wats) are nice and all, but this is Southeast Asia. You can’t spit six feet without hitting another temple. I got Watted out pretty fast when we got here. And while all these Wats are beautiful, I found them to be fairly similar. Gold. Red. Buddha. We got it. Continue reading
11 Feb
Ink
I love tattoos. Love love love tattoos. I have three small ones myself, but being in Thailand is making me itch for more. Continue reading
10 Feb
18 Years Later…It Smells Just As Sweet…
Back in 1993, I took a summer trip that included a couple of months inDar-es-Salaam Tanzania. There, I fell in love with frangipanis.
8 Feb
“Blink Blink” and Other Ridiculous T-Shirts
It may be a cultural issue, or a language barrier, but in Thailand there seems to be a different approach to what they’ll print on a T-shirt. Most noticeably, it doesn’t need to make sense. At least not to me, a native English speaker and a copywriter. Nor to Fahrin, an avid reader and excellent writer in her own right. Take, for example, this shirt…