Author: Maxsons Import_User

I don’t know for sure, but it looks like our plane just got here.  If this isn’t it, I’ll update later; however, fornow, I’m getting ready to depart.

Well, our flight out has been delayed.  We were supposed to leave at 1:50…now, we are leaving at 3:15.

I want to appologize for not getting as much time to blog while gone as I wanted.  But, after I am back in the states, I plan to spend the next few weeks updating the blog with posts and pictures about our trip.  Check back often and I’ll have new stuff up.

Thanks for thinking of us while we were gone.  We had problems (no podcasts), delays (a 16+ hour bis ride), and other problems (getting sick); however, we have been watched over greatly.  We were forced to eat some places that were “interesting” (I’ll post some more about that for sure), and spent long hours on the road.  Through it all, we have been protected very well.

This will probably be my last opportunity to blog before I return to the states.  I’m sitting in a little airport with free WiFi.  Free WiFi!  Can you believe it?!  In the US, I would be paying about $10 for this access.

Anyway, we are going to fly the national airlines from here to a well-known city down south.  From there, we’ll take a short tour of that city and then fly back to Bangkok for our flight home to New York.

Well, after a 16 hour bus ride, we finally arrvied in our 2nd country and destination.  I’ll blog more with pictures when I get home; however, the trip was a trip.  Here is a teaser:  about 1/2 the bus was full of “stuff” crossing the border.  About 1/2 the people on the bus had to sit on the floor.  We stopped in the middle of the night until the border crossing opened.  The bus stopped about every hour to offload “stuff.”  Although, the actual crossing was easy (even though it took 2 hours).

I said I was going to be going into several other countries while I was gone.  Well, I’m in #2 at the moment.  When I get home, I’ll write more.

It wasn’t on the schedule but all of us over here watching the kids for the people at the conference voluntered to watch their kids tonight so they could go out, if they wanted to.  Not everyone took advantage of the opportunity, but the ones that did really appreciated the time together.  If you ever go anywhere to watch kids, this is certainly something you should think about doing.

I just wanted to let everyone know that I’m feeling better.  I took some Sudafed, went to bed earlier, and ran some saline solution through my nose.  Thanks for the prayers.

I just wanted to take a few minutes to update everyone.  Tomorrow (Wednesday) I leave Chaing Mai to travel to Bangkok.  From there, I’ll be traveling up to Ubon Ratheni (sp) and on to several other places before returning to Bangkok.  I don’t know how internet access will be while I’m gone, so I may be out of touch for a few days.  I’ll try and update the blog with some more pictures and texst before I leave; however, I may or may not get time.

Several of us are sick (I think I have the beginnings of a cold or something small).  Pray for us that we would continue to be effective.