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My room at the Dynasty Grande hotel |
My room at the Dynasty Grande hotel |
Madee at new furniture store |
Madee and me |
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Popular spirit house |
Bamboo scaffolding on modern construction |
Getting a Chiang Mai foot massage |
Site of my two days of cooking classes |
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Produce at the market during the cooking class market tour |
Produce at the market during the cooking class market tour |
Over a dozen different kinds of rice in bulk |
My wonderful instructor Yui |
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Preparing Paenang curry paste from scratch |
Yui introduced me to this lady at the market. She's looking for
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Getting to know a baby elephant |
Crystal feeding sugar cane to a baby elephant. |
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It's bath time for the elephants. |
Coming in for the elephant show holding the tail in front |
Not the best way to ride an elephant |
Elephants playing a variety of musicical instruments |
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Ora Chai painting a flowerering tree. |
We start our treck by crossing the river |
Lilly and Ivana in front of us. |
Crystal and me take by our driver |
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Ox cart we took back to the elephant camp |
Ivana amd me on the bamboo raft |
Lilly, Crystal, Ivana, and Me on the raft |
Another group trekking on elephants |
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A friendly makak monkey that likes to sit on our laps. |
Lilly really likes him. |
Orchids |
More orchids |
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And more orchids |
Doi Suthep |
More Doi Suthep |
Still more Doi Suthep |
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Dinner at Suda with my friend Ey |
Hot Dog Eating Contest |
John |
Independence Day Celebration at the American Embassy |
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Rudi's Pool |
Dinner on Night 2 in Pattaya |
Jip, Meow, and Peggy |
Best, Me, Pan, Jip, Meow, and Peggy |
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Pan, Best, Jip, Me, Meow, and Peggy |
Pan, Mon, Dit, Peggy, Meow, Jip, and Me |
World's Largest Pagoda |
It just stopped Raining on Meow, Pan, & Mon |
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Pan, Dit, and Peggy |
Pan, Jip, Meow, Mon, Peggy, and Dit |
Meow Praying at the Buddha Shrine |
Peggy and Dit |
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Pan and Mon |
Meow |
Jip |
Copy of Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring painted in Pattaya and hanging above my bed in Corvalls |