Just trying to fill in some gaps from Thailand, here’s a post I’d been working on just before we left Chiang Mai. Hope you like! The morning of our visa run started early, and if you know us by now you’d probably gather that we aren’t really ‘morning’ people. The DFSMSdss team back home (Linda [...]

I’d promised myself I wouldn’t puke. I almost broke that promise as the man with the glass-shard paddle scraped it, repeatedly, down the other man’s back and blood started rolling out with enough intensity and volume that it was an angry red stream – not just an accidental, forgiving ooze. Then the whipping began. With [...]

I wrote last time about how I was eagerly awaiting the unexpectedly early opportunity to meet up with my long-lost penpal-turned-friend in Bangkok, 15 years after having met him when I was 13 and he was 21. We’ve been in touch through the internet for the last five years, but I had not seen him [...]