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01/17/06 // Blog Post from Doi Inthanan National Park // Chiang Mai // Thailand
The King of Carrot Flowers The light outside the windows was still a pre-dawn inky blue when the freezing cold water hit my back. A cold shower at six thirty in the morning is infinitely more powerful, albeit not at long lasting, as a cup of coffee. After dropping my body temperature a few degrees and having no towel to dry off with, just a … continue reading » Topics: Asia, Butterflies, Flowers, Honda Dream, Orchids, Round The World Trip
01/05/06 // Blog Post from Chao Praya River // Bangkok // Thailand
Buddha on the Bounty I went for a walk one evening along the concrete pathways that line the Chao Phraya river trying to work out a the solution to a broken bit of code that had gotten tangled up in my mind and in the project I was working on. I find that walking tends to work these sorts of things out; either that … continue reading » Topics: Asia, Flowers, Jim Thompson, Orchids, Round The World Trip, Silk, Wats