Mae Khanin Tai (sounds like Dai)

We\'re impressed you went out to photograph and help out with the rice harvest, Zak, and so glad for the great text and photos that help us to know what it\'s like for you in the big and varied province of Chiang Mai: Back-breaking! Hot! but with a good natural bathtub to cool down in, a good tent to sleep in, lots of natural foods from too much sticky rice to smoked tarantulas, and a safe water supply. Not to mention the beautiful setting. Your camping with Jason was part of your training for this great adventure? The portraits give a wonderful sense of the variety of people you worked with--how fine that they let you into their lives that much. Amazed to learn of the fauna lurking in the rice-paddies as you harvested, and also that wild dogs are a bigger problem than cobras--maybe you need a spear rather than a sawed-off 2 X 4? (loved that surprise ending to sawed-off!). You\'ve already had enough trouble with a dog. We Love you! Bob and Helen