Monthly Archives: August 2016

Free As The Breeze

August 3, 2016 – 9:25 am

The Soviet Premier Khrushchev famously declared in 1956 that the USSR would bury American Imperialism. Actually he said, “Whether you like it or not, history is on our side.”, but the Western press liked ‘we will bury you’ better. After his election in 1960 President Kennedy was upset by the USSR thinking America was soft […]

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Yesterday Gone Tomorrow

August 3, 2016 – 1:29 am

Back in 2010 my friends left Raspberry Island off Acadia in Maine en route to Millbrook, New York. They experienced a long delay at the Maine Turnpike’s Kittery toll booth. “That’s to be expected there and then.” It was the weekend and everyone was heading north or south. “I was still hell,” said my friend. […]

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Hi-Lo Season Pattaya 2008

August 2, 2016 – 1:06 pm

The airport opening on Bangkok created a surge of departures from Pattaya. Everyone was going and no one was coming since the flights had been cancelled and travelers were still being counseled by their embassies to avoid Thailand. The result was that for the first time in years Jamie Parker could drive his 400cc Yamaha […]

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OFF-SEASON by Peter Nolan Smith

August 1, 2016 – 7:02 pm

In late-April of 2008 I left Thailand after a ten-year stay. My two families accompanied me to the sprawling Bangkok airport. Happy European tourists were heading home from vacations. I kissed my children good-bye and hid the tears by burying my head in Mam’s neck. Her belly was swollen with our new baby. My other […]

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