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!