Aroonsak Lampang

... to Airport Plaza Mall this evening, I was so happy to see Robinsons, just like our Macy's back home. We took in a movie, The Ugly Truth. Ahh, so fitting for both of us. I felt like we were back at home, sitting in a cinema, watching an American movie, eating popcorn. We finished our evening with a couple of martinis at The Chedi hotel overlooking the Ping River. Look up The Chedi Hotel, it is absolutely exquisite. Tonight I definitely found my comfort zone!!

... Jill for Shauna...as our eleys are in the show and theirs aren't. So we and Supat stand by the watering hole as about twenty eleys and mahouts get into the bath and go to town......chad at one point got a full trunk of water right to his face...pretty funny stuff.....then they all get out get in line a couple of eley's grab a drum a flag and one a drum stick and they start to play the drum then they all march into the stadium to show us what they can do...amazing ...

... dear life as I am not sure who was washing who.....at one point Shauna might have been under water for a good minute.....then she would pop up...sputtering....Mai long mai long.....hahahhahahahahhaha good times...Elephant wine hhahahahhahaha. She never lost her cap amazing......John was splitin a gut also. My gal obviously respected my wishes and only almost drowned me once.....mmmmmm eley wine...... So we got that done and had a leisurely walk back to a new spot in the ...

... start to saunter off again...so in the jungle its pretty wild..kind like a jungle out there..... sounds I never heard before...and lotta wierd ass bugs I never saw before...but could see then walking/crawling along on the ground and I was way up on me Eley can you say bigggggg bugs. K so now sitting on an Eley is kinda neat its like getting a butt massage with each step....ohh eley skin is really rough and they have hair on their heads too....kinda rough ...

... We were in need of a shower and then went our for a maincure and pedicure to dig the mud our of our dirty hands and feet. Today, I had to axe my plans and go for a massage. I am so sore! I must be getting a little old to jump on and off of elephants. Give it up? Not on your life! The Mahout Program at TECC is eco-tourism at it's best! If you go, you will have a rare experience and memories to last a lifetime!

... Bangkoka, a ze sedaj je mogoce s Skytrainom v nekaj minutah premagati razdalje do 20km in ob tem opazovati mnozice avtomobilov v gnecah pod sabo. Ob podzemnem vlaku, ki je prav tako na razpolago v Bangkoku, so vse ostale oblike javnega prevoza enostavno prevec zamudne, da bi jih bilo vredno uporabljati, ce je le zelena destinacija dosegljiva s katero od teh moznosti. Slaba stran so le visje cene prevozov, ki pa so se vedno nizke v primerjavi s katerimkoli mestom v ...

... cleaning and x-rays included it was less than 200 quid and it all seemed slightly farcical to pay what we do at home. If only we could all fly to Thailand every couple of years! One other thing we had to do here was arrange chest x-rays for our Australian visa, again fast and cheap although the doctor required by the embassy was having a laugh charging 24 euro for filling out forms when his normal consultation fee was only a fiver. Still that was done and 5 days later our visa was ...

... I just slid off and fell on the ground. The last day I got an elephant burn on my stomach as my shirt rode up. But I also finally was able to dismount with some semblance of grace after three days of practice. The routine went like this: climb onto the elephant, march to the show ground, climb off the elephant, climb onto the elephant, slide off the elephant's head from the front, jump over the elephant's head to remount, throw the hoop on the ground ...

... almost completely and we were supposed to wash them off. Some of the elephants had the talent of squirting water on command. This talent was put to good use. My elephant did not seem to have this ability. That means I was entirely on the receiving end. But it was fun anyway. Afterwards all the elephants lined up on the road. Two picked up a drum and a third bonged out a regular beat. All the other elephants lined up, grabbed the ...

... on a beach in southern cambodia typing what has turned put to be in all actuality, very little about another place at another time. No where near as intense as Bangkok, Chiang Mai is A bit more nostalgic, and a lot more calm. There are more temples in Chiang Mai than there are garbage cans. I couldn't bring myself to take a picture of one. It just felt to clichè and we all know how I feel about clichès. One can take a cooking course, a ...