Just drove around town taking some shots this afternoon—

More street shots from Thailand…

...except for Sam.

City Streets of Chiang Mai, #2

City Streets of Chiang Mai, #3

City Streets of Chiang Rai, #1 to the outskirts…

Province of Chiang Rai, #2 to a tribal village

Just a long, unedited video of driving around in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Just a long, unedited video of driving around in Singapore.

Instead of doing my taxes, I hung out w/ Barney and Joe and Rob and Kellen instead. Good thing, because my taxes only took a couple hours.

Left Norita at around 4:00 pm. and switched planes in San Francisco. Arrived in Spokane at around 2:30 pm the same day. Actually made it to the house before I left Japan.

In Norita, Japan for about 30 hours. Trouble was we didn’t have anything arranged before we landed, so it took some time to figure out what to do. Eventually figured out to book a local hotel (can’t check in until 3:00 officially) and did short trips from there. I rested today and caught up on some digital stuff.

Left Chiang Mai this morning. Flew to Bangkok, then to Kuala Lumpur. Left there this evening heading to Norita, Japan, where we arrived tomorrow at around 7:00 am.

We had breakfast, drove to see Joseph for meetings this morning. When we got there, we had breakfast again. And at noon, lunch, before heading home. Dave spoke at an international congregation in the afternoon, then to visit Charlie and his group in the evening. Great day!

Learned that rice fields are flooded to control weeds. They start the rice somewhere else, flood the fields, then plant the rice (sticking out of the water, of course.) That way, no weeds can grow (unless it’s within the cluster of rice starts.) Very interesting—

Rob and I hung around the house, did laundry and caught up on some things today. Dave and Marilyn went to get their visa renewed. Had a wonderful chicken supper!

Today we drove about 3 hours up (62 miles) to see Ca Hpeu and his family, as well as what he is doing there in the village. It was good to be able to learn so much more about this dear family. We spent about 2 hour there before heading back. It was a long day, even though it was short.

Today we drove up to Mae Sai, where we came to the Burma border, then down to the Golden Triangle, where Thailand meets Burma and Laos.

Rob and I took a bus up to Chiang Rai. We got to the station at 11:30, but the next available bus was at 3:00 pm. So we waited here for 3 hours for a 3 hour bus ride.

More meetings today, but these were for packing and re-cap.

Today was the last day for teaching in Chiang Mai.