Chiang Mai, Thailand, December 27, 2015

Here I am again, the first access to the internet in four days. For some reason,the Google site is controlled, and connection is lost as soon as you try to connect. I will have plenty to say when I get home. For the same reason, this page will be short. I enjoy this place more than any other in Thailand. I enjoy doing the daily walk around the about six kilometer of the canal...a square of almost two kilometers per side. My hotel is within the square, as I have always done here. Yesterday, I took a tuktuk...pronounced took took, so I took a took took to the Royal Park Prajapruek, and just walked the grounds. The plants and decorative work is beyond description. The flowers are at their best, and one area is all orchids....absolutely grand. I took a lot of photos. Today, I took a tuk tuk to the Chiang Mai zoo and spent a number of hours there...walking the grounds and taking pictures. It is impossible to think that it is winter some places. This is the third year that I have been here in December or January and it just fits in with all the other nature here. I am here until Thursday, and will be taking the train for a twelve hour run to Bangkok where I will spend New Years. I hope to get to the Royal Barge Museum, and a few other places that I have never seen while in that great city. I return home January 7. and have already had a number of requests for driving seniors to events towards the end of January. If I can get on the net again, will write before departing here. I wish everyone a happy new year!!!