Looking back at Thailand, and upcoming PhotoBlogs

I've been to Thailand a total of 4 times so far in my life, and each time I go its harder to leave. Its one of my favorite places in the world for its culture, cuisine, art, natural beauty, and more than anything, its population of incredibly warm, spiritual, and gentle people. All around its a completely incredible and intoxicating (and by that I don't mean its a great place to get intoxicated . . . necessarily) place to be.

I visited Thailand more recently just this past January with my good bud Merwan, and before that for most of July of 2008. I figured it was about time to catch up with a photoblog of sorts of those two trips.

I'm thinking I'm going to try to make this a regular thing for the next couple weeks. That is, try to catch up on a lot of my travels of the past 2+ years with these photoblogs.

What do I mean by a photoblog? Well, basically I just mean a slideshow with a lot of accompanying words to tell stories of my travels. So without further ado, here it is: highlights from my last two trips to Thailand (July '08 and Jan '09) with emphasis in explorations of the art and street fashion world of Bangkok.


***To view the photoblog as I intend it pretty please do two things:

1. Enlarge the slideshow to get the full screen effect: it makes the experience so much better. Just click the little square in the lower right hand corner of the slideshow with the four little white arrows that looks like this:
Then, when the screen expands to fill your screeen,

2. Click on "Show Info" to bring up the text for the pictures: You'll have to first actually click the screen to get the top toolbar to show up, where you'll find this in the upper right-hand corner:
Click it, and . . .

3. Enjoy the show.

Oh, and special thanks to Tara Lal for the impetus behind finally putting this up. :)



Oh, and sorry I didn't quite finish this blog perfectly, but I gotta run to Merle Fest!