I posted the pictures from Diane and I on our Bike tour trips and didn't receive one comment about how good we looked or how tiny the trails looked.
Do you people out there know what a link is. It is always a different colour than the other print and if you click on it............wait for it................ IT LINKS YOU TO ANOTHER WEBSITE. In this case it is the bike tour host.
So here we go again this is the LINK TO THE BIKE PICTURES >>> click on bike>>>>>BIKE
There is a second set of pics click on bike2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>> BIKE2
Hope that works for ya. Some not many good pics here.
Sawasdee Krup
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
The Jets!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, the Jets.
How cool. And you know who they play in their first game back into the NHL.
Yes the Habitant. Good times in Wiinifreeze that night.
Sawasdee Krup
How cool. And you know who they play in their first game back into the NHL.
Yes the Habitant. Good times in Wiinifreeze that night.
Sawasdee Krup
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Ping Chat my butt
Yeah, they will do all kinds of things when you sign up for stuff to try and make your life liveable. Especially when you are half a world away from your family and friends.
Hey Zeb, eat dirt you a..hole.
HEhehehehehe.
Love you guys, take care now
Sawadee Krup
Hey Zeb, eat dirt you a..hole.
HEhehehehehe.
Love you guys, take care now
Sawadee Krup
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Time to move on
Well it's over, hockey season that is. And it couldn't have ended worse for me. It's bad enough that a Canadian team hasn't won in 19 years but to have the Bs win is just murderous to me. Anyone but them. So it is fitting that since everyone has had a chance since then, it is left up to one team to solve the riddle for Canada. Yes folks the Leafs have to do it!
Do you believe me saying that?
Well I have had enough Leaf fans tell me, hahaha the Habs lost. Yeah you are right they did and I have had to suffer the humility of those defeats, something the Leaf fans, old Leaf nation, doesn't have to suffer through cause they never make the playoffs in the first place. But now it is up to them. And oh yeah, by the way, they will have to defeat the mighty Bruins along the way. The team that they helped build into a champion.
Let's see how they do starting next year.
Gotta feel sorry for the Canucks. It would have been such a story book to have the Stanley Cup and the Gold Medal rest in the lap of Bobby Lou. Somehow they couldn't get it done. Pity. I think the whole nation was on their side. Those that talked, texted or otherwise with me know that I had to sit through the Bruins broadcasts which were manned it seemed by the owner and four former Bruin players. All the camera men were from Massachusetts, etc. I will have you know that they are laughing at Canada. They relish the fact we claim the game but have not hoisted a cup on home soil for that long. And they are gloating now. I heard it all in the post game shows. Not much class in my humble opinion. Oh yeah did I mention to you that I got real humble since I moved to BKK. Listening to the yanks go on and on, you get real humble or real pi&&%#. So humble it is.
Hopefully I can now blog a little more, talk about what is or is not going on here.
I have some more pics to put up through a link that show you some parts of the Adventures of Deedles McBike and her handsome Rugged Adventurer partner. Look here for more of us. Our tour / posting dates are May 2 and 3 ... Bike tour set one and then there are more good ones they didn't want to delete cause they nearly killed Diane and feel sorry for her...... Bike tour set two
Most of the pics were taken by the guide Panida. She shot these over her shoulder while riding the treacherous path of death. Now she does it for a living so maybe she is that much better at it. Our going forward position is we will not recommend this tour. It is only for the best bike riders. And only if these best of the best don't want to see anything. Cause really you don't get much of a chance to look up. Ask any F1 car driver if he saw you in the crowd at turn 6. Answer - No. Why - cause he was too busy making turn 6. Same deal here folks. Especially at Brooks' corner cause rather than a concrete barrier or sand drums they decided to spice it up with barbed wire!
Summer is here as well as where you are. Heat of April and May are behind us. The Thais all laugh now and say "nice day today no humidity". Yeah, its dropped all the way down to 82%, is sooo great. Takes two blocks of walking before you are soaked to the skin instead of one block. Vive la difference!
Back to hockey for a sec. We find out some time next week what the team name in Winnipeg will be. Do they have to put us through this? I once went through something nearly as dumb and it turned out very bad.
I lived in Port Arthur, Ontario. We had a sister city across the Neebing River called Fort William. Premier Davis was on his city amalgamation and regional government gig back when, late 1960s I think. Some will remember the creation of Ottawa-Carleton, Kitchener-Waterloo was attempted but only ended up with a hyphen Galt got sucked into Cambridge and on. In Port Arthur/Fort William we were given the right to name our new city in a referendum. Now some may remember that the area was referred to as the Lakehead (sitting at the top of Lake Superior and end of the St. Lawrence Seaway). While our city fathers got into a mele and had to put three names on the list rather than two.
Both cities are in the District of Thunder Bay, the cities sit on the bay on Lake Superior called.......Thunder Bay, so they all thought this would be a very suitable name and should go on the ballot. Kinda like Montana City, in the county of Montana , in the great state of Montana, makes redundant sense but it does make sense. After all you do have to have a choice.
The other name was as a result of everyday life. The place was called the Lakehead for years by numerous people from one end of Canada to the other. You didn't have to say Port Arthur, easier to say the Lakehead. But the city fathers couldn't decide what to do with the "the" so they put on the ballot Thunder Bay, The Lakehead and Lakehead. Vote was 35% Thunder Bay, The Lakehead 33%, Lakehead 32%. No one figured this out!!!! And since it was a democratic decision, voila. Stupid name. Only vaguely close to what it should have been. One of the reasons I left!
Winnipeg Jets better not be the Winnipeg Thrashers, like wheat, farmers? something stupid like that.
Be a man, do the right thing!
Talk to you all later
Sawasdee Krup
Do you believe me saying that?
Well I have had enough Leaf fans tell me, hahaha the Habs lost. Yeah you are right they did and I have had to suffer the humility of those defeats, something the Leaf fans, old Leaf nation, doesn't have to suffer through cause they never make the playoffs in the first place. But now it is up to them. And oh yeah, by the way, they will have to defeat the mighty Bruins along the way. The team that they helped build into a champion.
Let's see how they do starting next year.
Gotta feel sorry for the Canucks. It would have been such a story book to have the Stanley Cup and the Gold Medal rest in the lap of Bobby Lou. Somehow they couldn't get it done. Pity. I think the whole nation was on their side. Those that talked, texted or otherwise with me know that I had to sit through the Bruins broadcasts which were manned it seemed by the owner and four former Bruin players. All the camera men were from Massachusetts, etc. I will have you know that they are laughing at Canada. They relish the fact we claim the game but have not hoisted a cup on home soil for that long. And they are gloating now. I heard it all in the post game shows. Not much class in my humble opinion. Oh yeah did I mention to you that I got real humble since I moved to BKK. Listening to the yanks go on and on, you get real humble or real pi&&%#. So humble it is.
Hopefully I can now blog a little more, talk about what is or is not going on here.
I have some more pics to put up through a link that show you some parts of the Adventures of Deedles McBike and her handsome Rugged Adventurer partner. Look here for more of us. Our tour / posting dates are May 2 and 3 ... Bike tour set one and then there are more good ones they didn't want to delete cause they nearly killed Diane and feel sorry for her...... Bike tour set two
Most of the pics were taken by the guide Panida. She shot these over her shoulder while riding the treacherous path of death. Now she does it for a living so maybe she is that much better at it. Our going forward position is we will not recommend this tour. It is only for the best bike riders. And only if these best of the best don't want to see anything. Cause really you don't get much of a chance to look up. Ask any F1 car driver if he saw you in the crowd at turn 6. Answer - No. Why - cause he was too busy making turn 6. Same deal here folks. Especially at Brooks' corner cause rather than a concrete barrier or sand drums they decided to spice it up with barbed wire!
Summer is here as well as where you are. Heat of April and May are behind us. The Thais all laugh now and say "nice day today no humidity". Yeah, its dropped all the way down to 82%, is sooo great. Takes two blocks of walking before you are soaked to the skin instead of one block. Vive la difference!
Back to hockey for a sec. We find out some time next week what the team name in Winnipeg will be. Do they have to put us through this? I once went through something nearly as dumb and it turned out very bad.
I lived in Port Arthur, Ontario. We had a sister city across the Neebing River called Fort William. Premier Davis was on his city amalgamation and regional government gig back when, late 1960s I think. Some will remember the creation of Ottawa-Carleton, Kitchener-Waterloo was attempted but only ended up with a hyphen Galt got sucked into Cambridge and on. In Port Arthur/Fort William we were given the right to name our new city in a referendum. Now some may remember that the area was referred to as the Lakehead (sitting at the top of Lake Superior and end of the St. Lawrence Seaway). While our city fathers got into a mele and had to put three names on the list rather than two.
Both cities are in the District of Thunder Bay, the cities sit on the bay on Lake Superior called.......Thunder Bay, so they all thought this would be a very suitable name and should go on the ballot. Kinda like Montana City, in the county of Montana , in the great state of Montana, makes redundant sense but it does make sense. After all you do have to have a choice.
The other name was as a result of everyday life. The place was called the Lakehead for years by numerous people from one end of Canada to the other. You didn't have to say Port Arthur, easier to say the Lakehead. But the city fathers couldn't decide what to do with the "the" so they put on the ballot Thunder Bay, The Lakehead and Lakehead. Vote was 35% Thunder Bay, The Lakehead 33%, Lakehead 32%. No one figured this out!!!! And since it was a democratic decision, voila. Stupid name. Only vaguely close to what it should have been. One of the reasons I left!
Winnipeg Jets better not be the Winnipeg Thrashers, like wheat, farmers? something stupid like that.
Be a man, do the right thing!
Talk to you all later
Sawasdee Krup
Monday, June 13, 2011
Game 6, is it ours again?
So we all know by now that the cup hasn't been in Canada since the 93 Habs.
The Canucks are as close as you can come and feel comfortable. Cause no one is really comfortable with a game seven. And since we have lost all the game sevens for a cup the last little while (Oilers and Flames) I don't want to go there.
I'll be watching real close with Deeds, I think she will try to wrangle a little time off work, or at least go in a little later than normal so she can see this moment.
This is real hockey folks, enjoy.
Sawasdee Krup
The Canucks are as close as you can come and feel comfortable. Cause no one is really comfortable with a game seven. And since we have lost all the game sevens for a cup the last little while (Oilers and Flames) I don't want to go there.
I'll be watching real close with Deeds, I think she will try to wrangle a little time off work, or at least go in a little later than normal so she can see this moment.
This is real hockey folks, enjoy.
Sawasdee Krup
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Canucks up 2
How good does that feel. The Canucks have won two games against the b's. Two devastating wins. Should be soul and heart breakers. We'll see what the b's can do. Win one in beantown so Bobby Lou can win the cup at home. Would be so sweet.
We have MJ, our cross the street neighbour here with us for a few days. She watched the game with us this morning. Was awesome. Off to do a rice barge river cruise on the Chao Praya River tonight. Good food and a great look at the river of kings.
Enjoy the hockey, could only be a few games left.
Sawasdee Krup
We have MJ, our cross the street neighbour here with us for a few days. She watched the game with us this morning. Was awesome. Off to do a rice barge river cruise on the Chao Praya River tonight. Good food and a great look at the river of kings.
Enjoy the hockey, could only be a few games left.
Sawasdee Krup
Monday, May 9, 2011
The Lung of Bangkok....by DB
Hi everyone. It is finally me taking my turn at the blogging-wheel.
Much to my great surprise, amazement and delight - Jer arranged a bike tour in the country-side for my birthday back in April. For many that may not sound so special...nice maybe...but not that special. But for those who know how long I have been tryng to get Jer on a bike, they know this is very special to me. I am one of those that have never grown up-or-out-of experiencing the first summer thrill of pulling my bike out of the garage each year. That first spin around the block or up to the plaza or down to Port Credit...or wherever, is total freedom to me....and feels just like when I was 7 and could suddenly and easily get from one end of town to ther other, and all points in between, in no-time-flat. And lucky me I get to feel that, every single year...all summer long.
As Jerry wrote previously, our bike tour in the country was fabulous. So much so, that we decided to someday do another bike tour in the city in what they call the 'Lung of Bangkok'...and this is that story. As we learned, the area referred to as the Lung of Bangkok is a vast area of the city, on ther other side of the Chao Praya river that remains very green....and helps to feed the rest of the city with much needed clean air and oxygen. What we didn't know was that much of this area is only accessable by a hugh network of raised sidewalks or paths.
Well I have to tell you, this was a little daunting at the start. There was very little looking around at the scenery, and a lot of concentration on the path ahead. At one point Jer said that he was going to need a massage after our ride because his shoulders and neck were so tense from this 'concentrating on the path'. I was feeling exactly the same. But after a while we settled in and could relax a bit....but only when were not going around a hair-pin turn, or going up a steep ramp over a canal, or going back down a very steep (ok...I guess it was the 'same' steep as the up part!!) ramp on the other side of said ramp, or getting off the bike entirely because a motor bike was going to squeeze by (and they NEVER got off their bikes, or really slowed down all that much). I think this paints a pretty good picture. It was indeed a bike ride that made me very happy, in the green area of Bangkok that we had never seen or hear of....but it was a bit nerve-racking and about to get a little more so.
As you can see from the pictures, there are no barriers or rails on about 98% of this raised sidewalk. But at one point we take a sharp left turn, and directly in front of us (or now along the right side of the path) we notice that a barrier or fence has been constructed for about 40 feet.....of barbed wire. Yikes. For the split second when I first caught sight, I realized that I would vastly prefer the previously dreaded fall off the path...than running up against this very rusty fence. Then just like the cop shows tell us that sometimes people (usually who have been drinking) when they see a flashing light on the side of the road to warn them to stay away....they instead drive straight towards it.
Don't ask me why or how.....because I really, really don't know. All I do know is that suddenly I was hung up in the fence, the front wheel of my bike dangling down between the path and the fence, the back wheel still on the path along with my left foot. I was fully leaning into the barb wire with my arms caught up in it, but I couldn't push myself up and away as my right foot was caught up and I could not get any leverage.
Jer was ahead of me and heard my yelp....jumped off his bike and in a flash was behind me and we frantically started to call out possible moves. He freed my right foot so that I could find a non-barbed piece of the fence to put it on to support myself, and then he pulled up the bike and freed me from this tangled hell!!
A few tense and then shakey moments followed....cleaned and stopped the bleeding from a few puncture wounds...then walked our bikes out of the raised path maze...back on bikes once we hit a road.....then into a clinic for some more cleaning, a small incision for better cleaning, then a single stitch for the worst of the wounds. Actually the clinic experience was very impressive...they did not even ask me my name...and would take no money after they had done their work. They said no, Thai goverment looks after all people.
So that is our story of a little bike ride in the Lung of Bangkok. And for full impact, I also include pictures of the various scratches, cuts and punctures.
Jerry thinks this part is a bit dramatic....but I know that my friends would want to know all about this adventure...and too, that I am healing nicely. Lots of love, Deeds
Much to my great surprise, amazement and delight - Jer arranged a bike tour in the country-side for my birthday back in April. For many that may not sound so special...nice maybe...but not that special. But for those who know how long I have been tryng to get Jer on a bike, they know this is very special to me. I am one of those that have never grown up-or-out-of experiencing the first summer thrill of pulling my bike out of the garage each year. That first spin around the block or up to the plaza or down to Port Credit...or wherever, is total freedom to me....and feels just like when I was 7 and could suddenly and easily get from one end of town to ther other, and all points in between, in no-time-flat. And lucky me I get to feel that, every single year...all summer long.
As Jerry wrote previously, our bike tour in the country was fabulous. So much so, that we decided to someday do another bike tour in the city in what they call the 'Lung of Bangkok'...and this is that story. As we learned, the area referred to as the Lung of Bangkok is a vast area of the city, on ther other side of the Chao Praya river that remains very green....and helps to feed the rest of the city with much needed clean air and oxygen. What we didn't know was that much of this area is only accessable by a hugh network of raised sidewalks or paths.
As you can see from the pictures, there are no barriers or rails on about 98% of this raised sidewalk. But at one point we take a sharp left turn, and directly in front of us (or now along the right side of the path) we notice that a barrier or fence has been constructed for about 40 feet.....of barbed wire. Yikes. For the split second when I first caught sight, I realized that I would vastly prefer the previously dreaded fall off the path...than running up against this very rusty fence. Then just like the cop shows tell us that sometimes people (usually who have been drinking) when they see a flashing light on the side of the road to warn them to stay away....they instead drive straight towards it.
Don't ask me why or how.....because I really, really don't know. All I do know is that suddenly I was hung up in the fence, the front wheel of my bike dangling down between the path and the fence, the back wheel still on the path along with my left foot. I was fully leaning into the barb wire with my arms caught up in it, but I couldn't push myself up and away as my right foot was caught up and I could not get any leverage.
Jer was ahead of me and heard my yelp....jumped off his bike and in a flash was behind me and we frantically started to call out possible moves. He freed my right foot so that I could find a non-barbed piece of the fence to put it on to support myself, and then he pulled up the bike and freed me from this tangled hell!!
A few tense and then shakey moments followed....cleaned and stopped the bleeding from a few puncture wounds...then walked our bikes out of the raised path maze...back on bikes once we hit a road.....then into a clinic for some more cleaning, a small incision for better cleaning, then a single stitch for the worst of the wounds. Actually the clinic experience was very impressive...they did not even ask me my name...and would take no money after they had done their work. They said no, Thai goverment looks after all people.
So that is our story of a little bike ride in the Lung of Bangkok. And for full impact, I also include pictures of the various scratches, cuts and punctures.
Jerry thinks this part is a bit dramatic....but I know that my friends would want to know all about this adventure...and too, that I am healing nicely. Lots of love, Deeds
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