The view from the backseat of the car was interesting; the countryside was green, the road condition not too bad, and the hills provided plenty of diversion. The conversation along the way was lively, and I got a precis on the political, economic and social regression of a country that had built … Read more...
Continue reading...I left you stranded, a week or so ago, at the Don Muang airport, rudely interrupting the story with an aside about questions and story frames. That is simply how things will unfold, and there really isn’t much to say about the ride from the airport into the … Read more...
Continue reading...The gleaming red container box said “inmigración”. The doors were closed, one had a sign “entrada” the other “salida” but there was no activity. Certainly this could not be the official immigration counter to get an entry stamp? The reports I had read all spoke of a strange … Read more...
Continue reading...Quite a few years ago, (about a decade or more) I started putting on paper some of my thoughts about Thailand and my experiences in this country. The experiment at the time was entitled “20 Questions”, as I envisioned some sort of publication with roughly 22 or so chapters. The title also … Read more...
Continue reading...Recently I was reading a short article about the Maya civilization of Central America, and the development of what may well be the first known use of an explicit zero in the world. (Trust me, talk to any mathematician and they will be able to talk for hours on … Read more...
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