Category Archives: Driving

SICK BUFFALO FOR EVERYONE 2012

April 13, 2025 – 1:18 am

Several years ago my future ex-wife’s brother-in-law received a phone call from his brother. Bok and his son were in the hospital. They had had a motorsai accident. My future ex-wife hung up the phone. “Neither of them are dead?” I asked in Thai “No.” This was good news. Bok and his son Beer were […]

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Liege Lost 2011

April 9, 2025 – 4:54 pm

Luxembourg bound From Oxford The Ambassador behind the wheel A Porsche Boxer 140 kph Arrive Folkestone Late Well past Midnight___ Wait In the car park Board the car-train Chunnel To Pas De Calais Night Northern France On the Autoroute___ The Ambassador behind the wheel The Porsche fast 180kph Alice loves speed___ Moi Un passenger Le […]

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Burn Ferrari Burn – 2009

February 14, 2025 – 12:49 am

F1 racing is stupid. The cars race around circuit in a procession. Ferrari is the most fabled team on the circuit. From 2002 to 2008 my website f1.shopping.net was #1 in Google Search. An arrest by the Ferrari anti-copyright squad knocked me off the list. I had to move back to the USA. The Thai […]

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New Year’s Traffic Death Festival 2019

January 1, 2025 – 8:34 pm

From 2019 The Thai Festival for the end of 2018 has come to an end. The police are are overwhelmed by the traffic, as milliions of Thais travel to the distant provinces to see their families. The holiday death toll reached over 400 with countless thousands injured in car and motorcycle accidents. Driving drunk is […]

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Palm Beach Sunday

December 12, 2024 – 1:23 am

From 2008 In April 2008 I lived nowhere. My apartment in the East Village had been taken over by the faceless management company. I had lived with my wife and daughter in Pattaya until this April. We had had good times and bad times. It was home, then again I considered anyplace home once you […]

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