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Songkran Sanuk – 2000

April 15, 2024 – 3:31 am

The Songkran celebration ushers in the Thai New Year as well as the coming of the rains to endy the hot season. The 2000 festival has been focused on Wan Parg-bpee April 14, when homage was to be paid to ancestors, elders and other persons deserving respect, because of age or position. Traditionally younger people […]

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Songkran Driving

April 13, 2023 – 1:38 am

Nothing says Songkran better in Thailand than getting into an accident with a drunk, as revealed in this series of email dated from 2006. EMAIL from the Old Roue April 4 after I invited him to join me on a trip to Phnom Penh to escape the Songkran madness. His reply. No thanx, I’m driving […]

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Coyote Crazy

March 18, 2013 – 7:59 pm

Wiley the Coyote survived countless seemingly fatal disasters during his cartoon career. None of his plans to capture the Roadrunner ended in success, despite the aid of the Acme Corporation. Wild dogs in Thailand are much less lucky and this past summer I hit one outside of Chai-nat. Thump. I thought it was dead and […]

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World’s Worst Intersections

March 24, 2008 – 9:49 pm

2bangkok.com always has some interesting information for Thailand and the world. This weekend they entered ‘world’s worst intersections onto the website. http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/03/worlds-worst-intersections-traffic-jams.html And the photos attached to this URL tell the same story. Roads weren’t built for speed. In 1960 Boston claimed the Southeast Expressway wouldn’t reach traffic capacity until 1990. Within a year the […]

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