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Polar Flight Seat #60A

June 13, 2016 – 1:02 am

Seat 60A in a window. I slept most of the journey over the pole, waking occasionally to peer out the 777’s porthole. Below was the long Arctic night and overhead five stars were visible through the pitted flexi-glass. Virgin was offering a real Space voyage to intrepid ‘astronauts’. $200,000 to ride Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin […]

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Bombs In Holy Places

August 26, 2015 – 12:03 pm

The Erawan Shrine was built in 1956 to offset the state-owned hotel’s foundation being laid on an astrologically disadvantageous date as well as the intersection having been a site for displaying criminals before execution. The Thao Maha Phrom Shrine of Lord Brahma has long been a top tourist site for visitors from Communist China who […]

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Four Men From Maine

January 11, 2015 – 7:48 pm

Back in the early 90s I was in a Bangkok bar. I heard an accent and approached the speaker, a 40ish man in a flannel shirt. “Are you from Bangor?” “Yeah, what about you?” “Falmouth Foresides.” I had lived the first eight years of my life across from Portland. “We must be the only two […]

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MARTIAL LAW IN THAILAND

May 20, 2014 – 1:49 pm

Thailand’s turmoil has resulted in the declaration of martial law after opposing factions have battled in the streets and the Prime Minister was ousted by the courts. The media has reported that Bangkok seems calm and according to the BBC Army chief Gen. Prayuth Chan-Ocha said martial law would remain until “the country is safe […]

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Hot As Bangkok

April 21, 2014 – 2:03 pm

I’ve been going to Thaialnd since the early 90s. I quickly learned that April was the hottest time of the year. 2014 will be no exception and according to the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand this coming Sunday the sun will be directly over the City of Cmiles. It should be a hot one. […]

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