Another Couple of bus rides. The first ride was from
Vientiane, Laos, to Udon Thani, Thailand, followed by a second bus ride from Udon to Nakhon
Ratchisma (Khorat). One interesting thing is that our bus ticket says that we
bought it on 2558/01/31, which is in the 2,558th year of Buddha, or
year 2015 of our calendar.
We picked Korat to stop in for five days before we fly to
Singapore. It is a four hour bus ride from here to Bangkok and we will have the
bus to Bangkok drop us off at the old Bangkok airport, Don Muang, which is
north of the city. We think that one reason we like this city is for the one
hour massages that cost 150 Baht, or U.S. $4.58. For that price you can get
various massages for one hour but we usually choose the foot, which includes
the head and shoulders, or the full body massage.
On Monday morning we watched the Superbowl on Thai television. The commentary was in Thai, with a few English words such as "touchdown", "touchback" and "play action" thrown in occasionally.
This is a lady we met, Bom Angus, and her two children. She is Thai and is married to a Scot with the surname of Angus. She speaks more understanble English than a lot of Scots.
At this temple there was a funeral was going on. The deceased was a 65 year old man who died in his sleep from a massive coronary. The temple was beautifully decorated for his funeral.
While at the funeral we noticed a wall of small American flags and under them the remains of Americans who had been cremated and then interred in a small temple near the main wat.
Shopping at the supermarket we bought some yogurt, thinking it was blueberry. Turned out it was prune. We didn't even know anybody made prune yogurt.
From Khorat we are taking a bus to Bangkok then a Scoot Airline flight to Singapore to catch a two week cruise to Yangon, Myanmar. So, once again the blog will be delayed since Jim refuses to pay for cruise internet. The reason that we are posting so intermittently is that in some hotels Jim's netbook refuses to allow data to flow even though it is "connected" to the wi-fi. In Khorat we are staying in the Romyen Garden Palace, which has both wonderful rooms and internet.
Therefore we are trying to get caught up in our postings. Which is why all of a sudden or Panama Canal cruise appeared. We finally completed that section of our blog. After Jim had the post ready to publish, he accidentally deleted it and discovered that Blogger doesn't send the deleted posts to a trash can, it deletes them from Blogger. So, he went on the internet and discovered that you might be able to find the deleted post in your browsing history, which he did, and then he and cut and pasted it back into the blog.
On our last day here we decided to go back to the Klang Department Store for our second foot massage. This time, after the massage, we had the masseuses pose for us.
This is a lady we met, Bom Angus, and her two children. She is Thai and is married to a Scot with the surname of Angus. She speaks more understanble English than a lot of Scots.
At this temple there was a funeral was going on. The deceased was a 65 year old man who died in his sleep from a massive coronary. The temple was beautifully decorated for his funeral.
While at the funeral we noticed a wall of small American flags and under them the remains of Americans who had been cremated and then interred in a small temple near the main wat.
Shopping at the supermarket we bought some yogurt, thinking it was blueberry. Turned out it was prune. We didn't even know anybody made prune yogurt.
From Khorat we are taking a bus to Bangkok then a Scoot Airline flight to Singapore to catch a two week cruise to Yangon, Myanmar. So, once again the blog will be delayed since Jim refuses to pay for cruise internet. The reason that we are posting so intermittently is that in some hotels Jim's netbook refuses to allow data to flow even though it is "connected" to the wi-fi. In Khorat we are staying in the Romyen Garden Palace, which has both wonderful rooms and internet.
Therefore we are trying to get caught up in our postings. Which is why all of a sudden or Panama Canal cruise appeared. We finally completed that section of our blog. After Jim had the post ready to publish, he accidentally deleted it and discovered that Blogger doesn't send the deleted posts to a trash can, it deletes them from Blogger. So, he went on the internet and discovered that you might be able to find the deleted post in your browsing history, which he did, and then he and cut and pasted it back into the blog.
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