Chang Rai

Fairwell Chang Rai

December 11, 2024December 11, 2024 Steve 1 Comment Conversation, Food, Friends, Party/Festival, Thailand

All good things must come to an end, and it had become our last day in Chang Rai. Pete invited me to his weekly coffee with a few of his friends. The coffee was grown in the mountains by one of the hill tribes. It was delicious. The conversation was all over the place, as […]

Chang Rai with Lek and Pete

December 11, 2024December 11, 2024 Steve 1 Comment Conversation, Friends, Sunset, Thailand

As those of you who followed this blog years ago in Ecuador know, we met Pete in Ecuador in 2015. An amazing thing about “travel buddies,” is that you don’t need to see them all of the time in order to retain a travel friendship. So it is with Pete. In the intervening years, our […]

Dark House

December 7, 2024December 7, 2024 Ellen Museum, Point of Interest, Thailand

Colloquially known as the Black Temple, today we headed out to the Baan Dam (translates to “Dark House”) museum. This is another “temple” from the imagination of a Chang Rai artist, in this case, a private art museum comprising a mixture of traditional northern Thai buildings with unconventional and contemporary architecture, designed by Thawan Duchanee. […]

Orchids and an Elevator

December 7, 2024December 6, 2024 Steve Food, Friends, Point of Interest, Thailand

Sunday was a rest day. We took off Monday not know what to expect. First stop La Lalitta for a coffee and some orchids. La Lalitta Not knowing what to expect, imagine our surprise when we walked into garlands of orchids and mist blowing all over the place. The coffee was good too. Bodacious Temple […]

Tuesday with Peter and Lek

November 24, 2024November 24, 2024 Ellen 1 Comment Food, Museum, Point of Interest, Thailand, The Arts

Our first full day with Peter and Lek at their wonderful home in Chang Rai. After a cold shower, (the water heater was just going in), we started the day with coffee on the veranda. Actually, this is where we have all of our meals. We’ll cover this in another future blog. Do Home They […]

A Party for the New Village Leader

November 22, 2024November 22, 2024 Ellen 1 Comment Food, Friends, Party/Festival, Thailand

Pete and Lek met us at the airport. The airport was small and welcoming, and the Thai Lion Air flight was tight and quick. There will be more about Pete and Lek and their place in the future. Turns out, the village that their place is in, was having a party to welcome the new […]