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The Siamerican Wanderer has embarked on his longest and furthest motorbike venture yet�6 hours on the motorbike covering over 400 kilometers through the kingdom�s breast up into the Korat Plateau, to one of Thailand�s largest cities, Nakorn Ratchisima, the gateway to Northeastern Thailand–on a personal challenge of endurance, spontaneity, and of course, leisure. Continue Reading [...]

One of the primary schools I am teaching at (Wat Kan Jan Jarern) has a little mushroom house โรงเรือนเพาะเห็ด that the students grow and sell oyster เห็ดนางฟ้า and white fungi เห็ดหูหนู mushrooms. I had a look inside and took 5 pics with my mobile phone before my bat ran out.

Last week, my Finnish buddy, an international student based in Bangkok, came down to Phuket for the first time in his four years living/studying in Thailand. The Siamerican Wanderer took this as his final opportunity to relax and get a change of scenery from being cooped up in the Inlaws’ house on Phuket’s east side. [...]

Last night (Friday October 20) hosted the intense final hours of one of Phuket’s prime Chinese heritage festivals. The Siamerican and some friends headed downtown at/around the main Chinese temple-shrine to join in the masses for the final procession in the waning hours of this year’s festivities–an expected loud and hazy closure. Are you ready [...]

Following are a few pics of the Sunday parade several days into the Vegan festivities– finally get to see all that famous mutilation Phuket is famed for. Heard it’s all real blood and balls…seen a tid bid last year during the evening time…but today’s sky is clear with bright sunlight to see it all clearly. [...]

My son’s mother’s relatives invited me to accompany them to a distant relative’s funeral in Pataloong, southern Thailand’s smallest and poorest province, followed by an overnighter in southern Thailand’s most thriving city, Hat Yai of Sonkla province. Figuring that I had no plans for the weekend and had never been to any of these provinces [...]

On Monday night, the Wanderer set off from his lonely Samut Songkhram apartment with his Alice US military sack packed full of clothes, books, and documents, his guitar and computer, and headed for Manao intersection near the Phetchaburi-Samut Songkhram-Ratchaburi border on Rama II expressway. Kru Pisit and his wife, Kru Ruenjit were kind enough to [...]

Expecting to go wake boarding this Sunday, the Wanderer found himself spontaneously changing the plan when all his friends ended up backing out at the last moment. After doing some work on the computer all Sunday morning, the Wanderer finally got himself together, showered, packed a bag and set out by 4 pm. Continued here [...]

Left the house just after 9 am to meet up with a senior teacher, Ms. Payongse at a petrol station near bye. Our appointment was for a Saturday drive up to Ratchaburi city , about 35 kilometers north of Samut Songkhram city along the Mae Klong river. Continued here at the Siamerican Wanderer’s blog

For this Sunday’s adventures, I took a mid-afternoon drive up to Dam nern district in Ratchaburi province. Roughly 30 kilometers from Samut Songkhram is Lake Point Sports club, featuring a resort, restaurant, jet ski and cable ski lakes. Previously, I had been to the cable park in Phuket to learn how to cable wake and [...]