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A Glimpse of Thailand
December, 2001
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Lopburi Sunflowers
 December 31, 2001

This was taken earlier this December. The peak time for the sunflowers is mid-November and they were already drooping. Kids had helpfully created faces on nearly every remaining flower. And whoa! The traffic! I've been here ten years and this was the worst I'd ever seen. The entire province is turned into a one-lane road and once you get in the loop expect three hours of bumper to bumper madness with any exit blocked by police.

U.S.S. Kitty Hawk at Patong Beach
 December 24, 2001


Don Entz sent me this photo he took on December 14, 2001, of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kitty Hawk. It is flanked by destroyers off Patong Beach in Phuket. The carrier stopped for 72 hours of R&R.

Don said the carrier seemed to be constantly rotating offshore, so I wrote Kitty Hawk's webmaster about this. The webmaster replied:
Yes, the ship does "rotate" or rather, "swing" while it's anchored. The reason is because the current will push us around, and we're only held in place by an anchor and chain that comes out the front of the ship...
Respectfully,
LI3(SW/AW) Jacob Hickman, Deputy Internet Webmaster

Dispatch from Cambodia: Photographing Angkor
 December 17, 2001

Left: A child sleeps in a picturesque window of the Banteay Kedai Temple in the Angkor Thom area of Cambodia. (Note: This photo is actually of very good quality--I just optimized it so this page would load quicker.)

Right: A lot of people took her photo! For more on Angkor Wat, see my website Angkor.com.

Pizza-loving bull
 December 10, 2001

Here's a bull trying to eat pizzas out of a pizza-delivery motorcycle at Muang Thong Thani.

BMA Parking Structure
 December 3, 2001

The park in from of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (City Hall) has been excavated for the construction of an underground parking structure. When it completed, the park will be restored on top. A similar plan has been proposed for Chatuchak Park with enough clearance for tour busses. This photo was taken from the platform that the Giant Swing sits on (Sao-Ching Cha).

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