In the morning, we flip-flop to the pavement-level cook shop a half-dozen doors from our hotel. Cooking happens over open flame at the street while…
We are in well charted territory, and we are in uncharted territory: Thailand. It’s our third time in the Siamese bustle, so at one level,…
Here is one of the unexpected insights of world travel: peppers now make me sneeze. Formerly they did not, but now they do. It’s not…
Shhh…here is a secret: some of the best beaches in Thailand are utterly empty and largely undeveloped. How can treasures so valuable be unexploited? The…
I am no artist, but I travel in the company of an artist and am therefore qualified to speak on all manner of things esthetic,…
Perhaps you haven’t yet heard of ‘new latitude’ wines. These are vintages whose grapes are grown in places—usually tropical places—your French great-grandmother thought were good…
It’s a fantasy that must be imbued on the psyche of every Thai: to ride a horse upon the sand, as the waves lap gently…
The city of Ayutthaya is on the map for its history, for its ruins, for the intimacy of its past. Our hostess calls it “a…
Today we’re playing Mark Twain. Read slowly, and with a hint of a drawl. We’re sitting on the banks of the Chao Phraya River—it’s warm,…
I have resisted writing about food on this blog. Does the cyber-world really need another person taking wanderlusty pictures of their lunch and writing 500…
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