Back to Thailand with Linda - our home in Bangkok

Kitty!
Yes, Bangkok was quite pleasant. I enjoy reading your emails. Congratulations on getting your permanent visas!

Glad you enjoyed my blogs and pictures...
My blog is the archive. What else was I going to do with the hundreds of slides and prints I had accumulated in boxes over the years! Soon I will be posting a blog "Traveling back in time" with additional old pictures from my Dad...when he was 17 he took a picture of King George VI in an open limo driving through NYC on his visit to FDR (subject of the Hyde Park movie). Anyway, thanks again for appreciating my archive!

Thanks for commenting....
Yes, Thailand has changed significantly since I was born there in 1949. The first big change cam in the mid-1960's with the Vietnam War bringing the U.S. military; not only those stationed at the airbases, but also those on R&R from Vietnam. When I returned to Thailand after college, it was still mostly the traditional country I had known. But the massive increase in tourism starting in the 1980s, and the Thai adapting all their traditions to cater to the tourists was so very disappointing. But when I took my children to visit the country in 2007, nothing was the same. My wife refused to go with us as she didn't want her memories of how Thailand used to be to be replaced. But the impact of tourism is being felt all over the world, with huge crowds with their selfie sticks at all the "must see" places.