Thailand is Calling

Even thought the last couple of days have been dry, for a little over a month it has rained in Bangkok pretty much every day. This is the aftermath of one pretty good rainstorm.

Bangkok at night

This is an old bench under the meeting pavilion at the Cha-am Beach campsite.

I wanted to get a quick post up here while we are still in Malaysia. We landed here on the 20th so that we could come to the Thai embassy in Kuala Lumpur early Monday morning. The visa that allowed us to stay in Thailand expired on the 20th, and we needed to apply for all new visas. This means that we had to visit a Thai embassy in another country, and Kuala Lumpur had the best reputation.

The picture above was taken in the city of Putrajaya.  It was almost an accident that we found this city, but we’re glad we stumbled onto it.  When we get back and on our own Internet connection, we’ll have more pictures for you.

I’ve almost stepped on this little pooch on more than one occasion. She belongs to one of the many street vendors that line the road as you go to the church building at Somprasong 4. She’s all the time running up and down the sidewalk, and the only warning you get of her presence is the jingle from the little bell around her neck.

I snapped this one evening walking past a line of storefronts in Siem Reap, Cambodia. It is sad that the ingeniousness of this probably went entirely unnoticed. To attest to this, the shop offering the Body Spa, Facial, Massage, Shiatsu, Reflexology, Manicure, and Pedicure service that put this up was completely empty.

I took this picture in 2006 on an outing we made outside of Bangkok. It was at a fish farm/roadside eatery/Buddhist temple.

Also, I’m headed to Cambodia (again) with a group of 9 other Thai Christians tomorrow at 5 am. Dalissa’s going to stay here and hold down to fort, safe and sound in Bangkok for the five days we’ll be gone. This means no photos for a few days, but a lot of really good ones when I get back. We’ll be traveling first to Siem Reap - which literally translates to ‘Defeat of Siam‘ (Thailand) - to see Angkor Wat and then head down to Phnom Pehn to visit they Nathan and Cheryl Wheeler and Andrew and Natalie Hayes.

We recently moved into an apartment in Bangkok. This is our view.

I see this man, all the time, riding/pushing his broom-laden bike up and down the same soi (side street) as Somprasong 4, most of the time honking a small toy bicycle horn. How you are able to attach so much merchandise to a bicycle, I’m still not quite sure.

There’s not much story behind this picture. Its just a really beautiful snap taken on a camping trip to Khao Kho we took with some of the Christians at Somprasong 4.