As I say farewell to two months in Thailand, I sift through old and random photos taken to give you the colors, textures, and patterns that surrounded me. […]
Category: Thailand
to Ubon’s Candle Festival
The festival took over much of the city center Tuesday morning. Big cumbersome wax floats were being driven around corners and nearly over the toes of the packed onlookers. Parade officials motioned frantically to step back. The street cops directed pedestrians with sharp whistles and stoic nods. And pushing the overflow of spectators into the […]
Candle Carving
I didn’t carve these: The last two Fridays I’ve been fortunate to get to explore the local temples and wats in Ubon Ratchathani as they prepare for the Candle festival in a few days on July 22 and 23rd. This blogpost is a chance to share pictures of the temples and also tell you about […]
Exploring Isaan
Honestly, the only point of today’s blogpost is it to make you really jealous of my trip around Isaan last weekend. Prepare yourself for lots of pictures and hyperboles. Ubon Ratchathani is situated in Isaan (pronounced like “Ee-sahn”), the northeastern region of Thailand, snuggled right up against Cambodia and Laos. It’s supposed to be […]
shopping, Bangkok-style.
My trip to Bangkok this past weekend felt less like a trip about Thai culture and more of a learning experience on the many faces of international consumerism. Guess what… we all want stuff. Yay! And we equally go crazy over reduced priced trinkets at an outdoor, sweaty market as we do the 5x-the-markups of […]
Time Traveling, Internationally
riddle for you: If you’re reading this right now (as in, right now right now, in a non-literal sense) it’s probably yesterday for me. Even though we’re both living and breathing at the very same moment, separated only by continents and wind streams, technically my iPhone thinks you’re still in yesterday. Yesterday, a lovely nostalgic, albeit […]
