Chiang Dao or bust!
Note: We are leaving on Saturday morning for a three week trip to Vietnam and Cambodia. We're taking only small backpacks and our computers will be left in Chiang Mai. Communication will be sketchy at best but we'll look for an occasional internet cafe to check our email and let you know how we're doing! Facebook is blocked in Vietnam so personal email will be the only way to reach us. As always, our hearts are with all our people back home. Much love from Amy and Jim I’d been working hard…pushing forward on the book as well as finishing up the drawings for my upcoming exhibition in June. Time for a break. Jimmy and I decided to head out of town for a weekend getaway to the town of Chiang Dao…an hour and a half due north. We rented a couple of scooters from a place just up the street and although it’d been raining ... read more
Kinetic Anatomy
According to the books, the rainy season doesn’t start around here until late June…just about the time I will be returning to the states, but you wouldn’t know it by looking out the window. It’s raining cats and dogs. I have no complaints, after we arrived here in Thailand it was sunny every single day for two and a half months straight. The first time I heard thunder I thought it was an airplane. On that day, the weather changed and it’s been raining regularly ever since. It’s the best possible kind of rain…a spectacular show of foreboding clouds come over the mountains, followed by dramatic lightning, a torrential downpour, and then it’s gone. The sun is back within hours. After years of living in the Pacific Northwest where the idea of “rain” meant months of gray, bone chilling damp…I have finally come to embrace a good drenching. The locals say this is unusual weather ... read more