Side trips - Into the wilderness

Thailand - as I see it.

As we travel through the countryside, in each little village we see dozens of little children walking, playing or watching us go by.  Three little kids are walking with sticks three times as long as they are tall.  They are going fishing in one of the streams or ponds that dot the landscape.  We just saw a motorbike go by with 5 people on it.  Wow, two is scary enough.


We just went by a graveyard which is above the ground with little cement houses and ornaments decorating each.  It is a Chineese-Thai cemetary and very elaborate with curly-cues on the top and sides.  They are colorful and numerous in this area.

Most of the roads we have travelled on in the countrside are two way roads with just enough room for a vehicle to go by us.  A wild animal just ran in front of the car and it looked like a mink or weasel.  It went by so fast that I didn't get a picture of it.  We see little shacks dotting the countryside.  They look abandoned but every so often we see people sitting outside or working in the fields.

A huge group of cows, just walking along in the center of the road, don't seem to mind that we are there at all.  Some of them look at us and the others scurry to climb the high embankment of dirt, rocks and pebbles and trees.  They were nibbling on the folliage as they walked along. 

We are out in the wilderness and we just passed a large school made of concrete or cement with a few buildings and a large wall around it.  I can only wonder how many children attend this school and how many of the children walk there.  I wonder if they live there on the week days and then go home on weekends.

Enough for today.  I don't want to write too much at one time.  I just seem to have so many things to say, haha.  I have been told that before.