Maxson Central

I had this post written while waiting in LGA; however, I messed up and it didn’t get saved.  So, this is a repost.

While we were in Chaing Mai, we ate at many places including one hole-in-the-wall/avoid-at-all-costs-if-you-are-a-tourist type restaraunt.  We are there because one of our friends suggested it and had eaten there many many times.  I’m glad we went because it was awesome.  Here are some pictures of the place:

 I ordered this dish called Cowsoy (don’t know if that is how it is spelled or not).  It turned out this was my most favorite dish of the entire trip!  I tried to order it other places; however, it wasn’t on the menu anywhere else.  Here is a picture:

It came with this plate of stuff you mixed in with it.  I ate everything except the big brown lump (it was like tofu blood or something like that.  My friend didn’t eat it either).

You then added this spice stuff to it to suit your hotness level:

Here is a picture of two ladies working there.  The one on the right made us this nice fruit slushie drink that we ordered just about every place else we went.  They were good!  She is a believer and she asked us to pray that she would know how to witness to the lady on the left.

As I blogged before, on the trip over to Thailand, I dropped my mp3 player into this hole in the bulkhead beside my seat.  I took a few pictures and thought I would share them with everyone:

I didn’t say anything to anyone on board (there wasn’t alot they could do about it anyway).  While looking at the Thai Airways magazine, I found a feedback form.  I decided to complete it, explain the problem, and see what they would do.  Below are pictures of what I wrote to them:

Because I lost my mp3 player, I didn’t have any way to record podcasts from the trip.  I’m bummed it didn’t work out (I even bought a 2GB MiniSD card to make sure I had enough space).  Oh well, we’ll just see what happens.  Hopefully I hear from them and they buy me a new mp3 player.

We are back in the US.  We are currently sitting at NYC’s LGA airport waiting to catch a 7pm flight back to Richmond.

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).