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Far from home, it's true, but I remain so American...

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Our last ride...

After you've made your final revolution on the Ferris Wheel of Life, and after the funeral ceremonies have all been completed, it's off to the crematorium. This is the cart used to carry the coffin.

P.S. Not trying to stir up any bad luck for anybody here. สาธุ!!!

20231203

Village canal looking good after ลอยกระทง / Loy Krathong.

You can see กระทง / krathong remnants in both photos. Not a perfect situation environmentally, but a lot better than before when they used to use styrofoam. This year's ลอยกระทง / Loy Krathong was strong. You could feel it happening everywhere you went for days in advance, and the Loy Krathong moon still looked great for days afterwards.


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Movie night at the village temple.

I thought this was a thing of the past, but nope. It's still going on and well-attended at that. I'm not sure about the equipment used, but both video and audio were good.


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Excuse me while I live outdoors for a few months...

Outdoors is where it's at.

20231113 - Central Plaza Korat



20231116 - Drying rice at a temple west of Phimai.

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20231121 - Out in the rice fields, of course...

20231126 - At one of the rice field restaurants.

20231127 - Downtown Korat on Loy Krathong.

A bicycle ride wearing a KN-95 mask is better than no bicycle ride at all.

I guess it was my dream that the air wouldn't get bad until mid-January. I got back right at the end of the rainy season, and the air is...