Heng Heng Update

Heng Heng's new family keeps sending Nuch photos, which is kinda nice.

Also, a little weird.  Here's a video they sent of Heng Heng trying to use the litter box.  

Nuch took this as a subtle request for a new litter box - being this one is obviously too small.  So, she bought them a new one, and they obliged us with another video of Heng Heng trying to poo.  

Here's Heng Heng's climbing toy.

Here's Tipper's climbing toy

The New Hub Of Isaan

Big news for little Korat, which has an airport, but has not had any flights since the last century.  A new airline is opening routes to Chiang Mai and Phuket.

Loy Kratong 2017

The November full moon means it is Loy Kratong day or the Thai version of Valentine's Day.  Nuch and I had a romantic dinner, and then, headed to the local temple to float our Kratong in the adjacent canal.

There's A Special Place In Hell

For the dude that left the toilet like this on my flight back from Jakarta

Jakarta Reunion

Last weekend, Carl and I met up for a night out in Jakarta, which is located about halfway between Surabaya and Bangkok.

Here's the view from my hotel room.  Although we went out in the evening, we spent most of Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning by the pool

The goal of the trip was to catch up and kill some brain cells, but we did take in some of the local culture - this is a miniature reconstruction of  Indonesia's famous Borobudur temple, which is conveniently located about 50 yards from the pool

Chillin' by the pool

In the spirit of Peace Corps we snuck Vodka into the pool area in a plastic water bottle and mixed our own drinks.  In the spirit of being old dudes, we couldn't finish it all and had to poor it down the drain, so Carl could carry his fancy REI jug on his flight home.

Checking out in the hotel lounge - the first stop on the long road to recovery.... We've given ourselves 6 month to recuperate before our next trip - Bali