Out in the country

First full day in Pai

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January 17th 2009
It was actually cold last night - the first time that I have felt cold since New Zealand. I woke up from a strange dream in which Joshua and I were riding in the back of a pickup truck after a fresh wet snow fall. We were driving down a dirt road past snow covered fields in hilly farm land. When I awoke, it was cold enough to believe that the dream could have been true. None of the houses here h ... 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