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Just a thought.

While I am waiting on a computer to upload new photos to my blog entries pending in my draft box, I thought I would share this quote.  It seems quite relevant: “...That's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.”  -Bill Bryson, Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe   Even after eight months, everything in this world, from the food to the building structures, is new and completely unfamiliar.   I am slowly learning words in this world's language.  Accordi...

Destination: Paradise

I just got back from an amazing two week vacation.  most of my time was spent soaking up the sun and meeting new people in the southern province of Krabi. I started my journey by heading to Saraburi for a belated Thanksgiving dinner.  Some fellow OEGers cooked some delicious American food including macaroni and cheese and mashed potatoes.  Unfortunately there were no turkeys to be found so we settled for chicken.  We even got to watch some football-the non-American kind.  Being surrounded by so many foreigners was a wonderful yet overwhelming feeling.  It has been quite a while since I was surrounded by a fair number of normal, 20 something year old westerners.  My favorite monkey in Lopburi.  So serious! The following day I headed to a the neighboring province of Lopburi.  Lopburi is filled with ancient ruins and those ruins are inhabited with thousands of Monkeys.  Every year on the last Sunday in November there is a mo...