The trip to Thailand was interesting and enlightening.

We had about 250 kids and adults from the Thai temples in Washington DC, New York, Chicago and our San Francisco area. We went to a number of temples, schools, government houses, Channel 5 TV, where the kids performed what they had learned of Thai dances and music. Often the kids from Thailand would reciprocate with their performance. Listen to political speeches in Thai with our American Thai audience buzzing on with their own talk. Was as a bit disappointed at our conduct.

We had six big busses (3 Navy, 3 Army) with police escort. We had onboard the busses some Thai college students that have been to the US teaching Thai language, dance, and music to the kids here at the Thai Fremont CA temple so the folks on the bus knew them.

I had fun trying to read the road signs in Thai before reading them in English.

We also went to Southern Thailand to Phuket, Krabie, Jame Born 007 island. Boat tours where kids got to go swimming in lagoon with pretty fishes swimming around. (they threw food in the water too) I wondered where the sharks were.

We went from Bangkok down to Sattahip deep water port and got to go on their aircraft carrier. Fun riding up on aircraft elevator lift. The ship has Harrier aircraft and the runway bow sloop up in a curve. Not what one is used to for American carriers. The Spanish made the ship for them.

We had a final goodbye party on a Thai Naval Officers secluded beach. Kids got to row over in long boats. We had some relatives there and road around the bay in 4 wheel drive vehicle. Rough road to get to the beach by land.

Spent the last week at our place in Bon Chang about 12 kilometers away. (The Eastern Star Resort wraps three sides of my six acre field.) Houses a couple of klicks to the East.

DID NOTHING. Which is something I don't know how to do. Watched the road crew dig up our street and four side streets. All week long. Back hoe, grader, roller packer. Dirt in, dirt out, grade, pack, dig up, bring in more dirt, grade, pack, etc. Sangad and daughter, granddaughter remained 10 more days.

Hope I get a report that we finally get some asphalt by the time she comes home on the 19th. :-)

Had breakfast made for me by one of our neighbors that lives in one or our houses. Brought me the Bangkok Post and read it from front to back and back to front. Wrote notes in a notebook and will have to see if I can read them and make any sense out of the strange ideas that floated into my thoughts not having the noise of everyday USA rush intruding.

Was different and will probably affect where we go from here. There is more out there than just my own little world. If I am to look into going to space, I will have to be able to look at the larger picture and hence include what is going on in the whole World to see what will help support the idea of developing a space frontier.

At least that is what seemed to be playing in my mind there in Thailand.
Will see how long it stays above the event horizon in my short span of attention. :-)

Larry