Hola La Niña!

An example of not so great forest management in NE Thailand.







Thai art?
Or Thai garbage...
Modified slash-and-burn agriculture, which is still (unfortunately) common before the wet season.
A picture of a Thai village that Barry and I randomly visited located north of Pai.
Villager kid with talcum powder on his face - it's apparently common in Thailand to do this to "cool off" after taking a shower.
More villagers; all of the women are decked out in their tribal dress (see below).




One of many hot springs in NE Thailand. This one was about 20 km from Pai (pronounced like Pby), which is a small town near the Thai boarder with Myanmar.
Is Barry in Yellowstone or Thailand???

Way out in the middle of nowhere in NE Thailand.
Jack fruit - the largest fruit in the world.
The local restaurant kitchen...
Our observant and extremely shy lunch audience.
Dessert.
A monster Dipterocarp leaf (Dipterocarp tree species are one of the most common and larger rainforest trees in SE Asia).

Killer Thai street-food.
A great blues band playing at a bar in Pai.

Lots of hippies in Pai.

A picture of me in Pai showng the remnants of the "Cambodian barbeque" on the beaches of Sihanookville.


Mangostein - one of my favorite fruits locally available in Thailand.


I saw several 318i's in Chang Mai.
The hip club scene in Chang Mai.
I spent the last evening in Chang Mai at a great som tom restaurant with 22 different dishes of Som Tom!

The following pictures are of the S-21 Prison (Toul Sleng) run by the Khmer Rouge during Pol Pot's reign of terror. Approximately 20,000 people were tortured and killed from 1975 to 1979 at this former high school. Only 7 people survived this place.
A picture taken by the Vietnamese of one of the S-21 torturees immediately following the fall of Phnom Penh to the Vietnamese in 1979.



Next up was the killing fields; not much to see except a whole bunch of the mass-burial pits left over from the Khmer Rouge.
Barry and Lawan at the on-site temple containing many of the bones exhumed from the killing field site in Phnom Penh.
My friends John and Pam DeVolder (left) and Barry Flaming at a German restaurant where we had dinner in Phnom Penh. Pam and John were working for the US Embassy there and were just finishing their 2-year tenure. They had some amazing, and at times, quite depressing stories of working with the incredibly corrupt Cambodian government. Next up for them: Malawi, Africa.
A couple of pic's of Pam and John's daughter, Isabelle.

Another photo of Pam and John DeVolder, Lawan Vongchindarak, and Barry Flaming.
Downtown Phnom Penh on one of the few paved roads in the city.
Cool french architecture that's completely falling apart throughout the city.



Parting shots of the many "moto" drivers in Phenom Penh as we left for Thailand.