Riding an Elephant

Mary and Dick taking a ride. It was very comfortable and we felt safe in our wooden box perched atop the elephant, even when he climbed a steep hill. There were several baby elephants in the camp who were very friendly and loved to be fed bananas. If you gave one money (a paper bill) he would take it in the tip of his trunk to a nearby fruit stand, and wait patiently for the proprietor to take the money and give him a small bunch of bananas in exchange.

Bangkok and the Golden Triangle to Singapore

March 19th 2005
Last night we got back from our 4-night overland trip through Thailand, traveling from Bangkok on the coast north to the other end of Thailand (old Siam). The border is several hundred miles away in the mountains where Thailand, Laos and Myanmar (Burma) meet in the “Golden Triangle.” This takes its name from the lucrative opium farming and trade that used to go on in the decades before Thail ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more

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