First..a quick note to Mike. Kevin's e-mail address will come up if you go into Entourage, click on new, and begin to type hart....the address should pop up. You could also try typing in Kevin Brown and it should come up. It is only on the main computer and not on the lap top. Today, we travelled out to an orphanage with Simmi and his family (who came here from the United States for a reunion). It was a very sparse clean place. Right now there are 250 kids there, of all ages. Some have no parents and some have [View Full Entry]

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Hi Everyone! A quick message to Mike and Joan, could you go up to our place and go onto our Entourage address book and look up Kevin Brown's e-mail address and forward it to this blog. I believe it is, hartworl@yahoo, could you confirm or correct. We are trying to meet him here. Thank you. We haven't been very brave about eating the street food here. Luke, the man we met yesterday had intestine tonight and told us it like flavoured rubber. When we were in Bangkok, Tim from Australia took us to a Lao restaurant. The experience was fabulous, dancers, [View Full Entry]

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Hi Folks! This is simply an extra mailing to add a couple more addresses to our list! Bye...David & Carol [View Full Entry]

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As you can see we have arrived here. But before I write about our beginning time here I want to write abit about being in Vientiene. The Wats of Vientiene The wats here are not clean and shiny like the ones in Thailand, nor do they sparkle with gold or have freshly washed tile floors . Nor do you buy beautifully deconstructed and rearranged tiny flower leis which are left as an offering in the trays by the 20 foot gold leaf Buddhas. The wats in Vientiene, Laos are often surround by French Colonial buildings which are faded and white. There [View Full Entry]

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Our flight to northern Thailand was quite uneventful or so we thought, we didn't realize the tasteless cold fish lunch on the flight would have an impact on us 12 hours later. When we got off the shuttle to the Laos border, I realized I did not have a passport photograph for my visa. The official pointed to a dirty, delapidated Coke stand indicating that someone there would assist me. Much to my dismay, and if you were there you would have seen it, I was told to get on the back of small scooter and a man would take me [View Full Entry]

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Hi All and Kevin.. We have changed our plans and are now heading for the Laotian border and Vientiene on the 8th of Jan. instead of the 12th. which will put us into Luang Prabang earlier than expected. Kevin, you could look up the website of the Atlanta hotel here in Bangkok and send us a fax with your plan..we leave BKK on Monday morning and we are in Room C9. When we know the name of the hotel we will let you all know. D/C [View Full Entry]

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My greatest culinary joy came from a street vendor. There she was opening up a banana leaf, into the center of it she put sweet coconut sticky rice, then she added cream carmel and a mango sauce. It was folded into a little neat package and handed to me. We sat by a fountain and indulged in a small piece of heaven in the midst of hordes of office workers and belching diesel cars and buses. That was on Thursday, it certainly helped with the jet lag and the initial disappoint of the Atlanta Hotel. Since then we have decided it [View Full Entry]

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Hi Everyone! Here we are in this very strange hotel in practicaly downtown Bangkok. We are as safe as anyone can be in a city that is under a certain amount of duress..the Thais are going about their daily life with out problems it would appear, but there are many more police and military people around this year. We're o.k. but I think this machine is about to crash so I will find another and continue later . KEVIN !! watch this blog for our meeting place in LAOS!!! on the 14?? David abd Carol [View Full Entry]

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Hi! Everyone and Kevin Brown, To continue: We've been trying to get in touch with my friend from Vancouver who is up in northern Thailand in a city called Chaingmai because we wish to meet him in Laos...he's an immense storehouse of Asia travel trivia and lots of understated droll wit and we have fun together, but as usual, I 've misplaced his/my password/i.d. so we've got to rely and hope that someone on this blog can clue us in to it! SO...READ THIS KEVIN!! WE plan to stay in Bangkokfor another few days (the 8th Jan.) and then start moving [View Full Entry]

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Hi All! ....of course! Who doesn't want to have a few fireworks go off to usher in the new year? But this is ridiculous! And, of course there is the matter of trying to slide my flak jacket through security without arousing to much suspicion..... and now one must become almost naked to get through...conjours up quite the image doesn't it? .. naked except for the flak jacket..... being carressed with the electric wand wielded by an over-zealous, under-paid, over-weight, under-educated Radio Shack reject that lives in his mother's basement under the guise of "protecting " us all from Mr. B's [View Full Entry]

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