Now, back to where we are staying. Veena, an acquaintance from last year became our agent this year and showed us the housing options in Khon Kaen. As advertised, housing costs are really low. But there’s a catch. Most in-town rentals are one-room affairs, large enough to sleep in but way too cramped for living. […]
After the customary thirty-one hour door-to-door trip from Dallas, Judy and I arrived again at the VP Tower in BKK. The next night, Doug and Yim, who owned the old hangout, Thee Sud Isaan, threw a party at their house. Half of our friends were there, and we had a great time. The next night, we […]
Ira and I are in Khon Kaen and have found a place to live!! We have new cell phones and are in the process of unpacking. A wonderful Thai woman we met last year helped us look for an apartment and, after considering several options, we have rented a serviced apartment in a hotel […]
Ira and I are doing fine. We are now in Khon Kaen in the northeast of Thailand where Ira is located as part of the International Neurosurgery volunteer program we told you about. After the first month in Bangkok at our same language school and a week-long trip to Myanmar, we came up here on […]
One last word or two about the Thai political situation. It is not affecting anyone’s daily life at all, except for those who are involved in it. Thaksin is in London “holidaying” as one of newspapers put it; his entire family and retainers are also there with him in the multi-million dollar home that he […]
Ira and I have finished another week of language school and are feeling very proud of ourselves. Ira’s class had a test on Tuesday and mine on Wednesday. You will be happy to know that we both passed! (This in spite of the fact that Ira had sworn previously in his life that he would […]
Daddy/Ira and I arrived safely in Bangkok. The trip across the Pacific was all that we had hoped for. The Evergreen Deluxe class on EVA airlines is between economy and business class in comfort (seat size, seat layout, and distance between rows) and general amenities with the prices only a bit higher than the standard […]
[imgset:72157611406123726,thumbnail] You probably already know that Ira and I are friends here in Bangkok with Yim and Doug who are the co-owners of an excellent restaurant which is also our neighborhood “hangout”. Yim is Thai and Doug is from the US. Thanks to Yim, Ira and I were recently lucky enough to go to a […]
This has been a huge month, too, and as our time here comes to an end, we want to wish everyone Merry Christmas. We get back the night of December 16 and look forward to seeing many of you. Olivia and Aaron come to Thailand. Olivia and her friend Aaron arrived over Thanksgiving in time […]
On December 7 we took the slow train from Bangkok to Khon Kaen. We wanted to see the landscape of this part of Thailand that we had been eager to see. Khon Kaen is the largest city in Isan and a university town. In fact, the university itself –located on 4000 acres–is a town itself. […]