Thailand #24

Quick thoughts:
-Been thinking about the song "Jesus Love the Little Children..red & yellow, black & white..." What about brown??? There's sure lots of them around here!!
-And how about the Our Father...Give us this day our daily bread...around here it's daily rice...shouldn't that be revised for here??

Tires:
-No orange cones around here!! They cut tire in half & paint it red/white. Works.
-As a matter of fact, used tires are reincarnated in lots of ways: flower pots, garbage containers, toys, road side sighs, homemade carts etc


Bamboo:
-Bamboo has to be the most versatile building material. We've seen it used in: houses, scaffolding, furniture, hammocks, playpens, boats, clotheslines, shade coverings, fences, poles for beans, drain pipes, lamps etc. More valuable than gold!! And it grows wild everywhere!!!

Motorcycles:

So while I'm on this roll. You can't imagine the ways they use motorcycles--besides loading them with as many as 5 people!! The build carts they can pull behind, carts that fasten to the front, carts that fasten to the side & even added shade covers. Some are used to carry more than 5 people, huge loads of food/bamboo/animals/straw/etc and some have built in ice boxes to sell cold goods while others have hooked up propane tanks & fry foods to sell. If you need to move anything...a motorcycle is the answer!!

Wife and Groceries

Bamboo Chairs

Eggs

Food Stand

Thai Alphabet
-Thai alphabet--HUGE! 42 consonant sounds, 30+ vowel sounds & 6 tones. In other words--I won't be learning to speak much Thai!! And I thought it was a trick to teach reading in USA!!!



Sukhothai:
From Moe Sot, we hopped a bus and headed toward the city of Sukhothai where the ruins of the Siam empire that was mostly destroyed by the Burmese about the 15th century. We rented bikes & toured the ruins of the many (and I might say way too many) Buddist temples which are enourmous and very impressive. We just happen to get there just before sunset so watched the orange glow light up the huge Buddah. Once a month, there is a traditional show depicting the history of the area--and we lucked out!! We watched the show which included the lighting of about 30 paper latterns that then lifted ... floating slowly upward until they looked like stars in the dark sky. What a glorious sight!