Somewhere on the Globe Vox 2008-03-29T05:17:23Z Bill and Marge Pfeffer http://pfeffer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00e3989e11a30004/2008/03/ Pfeffer's On the Go - Stories from the Road Miles of Smiles tag:vox.com,2008-03-29:asset-6a00e3989e11a3000400f48ce91e590002 2008-03-29T04:35:19Z 2008-03-29T05:17:23Z Bill and Marge Pfeffer http://pfeffer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Chiang Mai Sunday Night Market Food Vendors on Temple Grounds Kept Wishing This Was Licorice, When In Fact It's Vegemite Did You Ever Walk Out of a Bar So Blitzed You Imagined You Saw An Elephant Nicely Preserved Wat in Chiang Mai Lod Cave Outside Soppong Proud Parents Newly Initiated Novice Monk Quite The Elaborate Costumes Monks Who Live on the Grounds of the Wat Are in Charge of Maintenance Marge Outside Mandala House Restoration in Progress Temple Offering Many, Many, Many Wats in Chiang Mai Women's Lib Has Not Yet Reached Parts of Thailand

With more glitz and flash than a Japanese tour bus, the Chiang Mai Sunday Night Market presented a dizzying array of merchandise, food and entertainment on a balmy full moon evening. For two hours we negotiated up Tapae Road i...

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]]> Good Vibrations tag:vox.com,2008-03-15:asset-6a00e3989e11a3000400f48ce48acc0003 2008-03-15T09:47:05Z 2008-03-16T09:22:05Z Bill and Marge Pfeffer http://pfeffer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Where Bill Spent 3 Hours With Another Person View of Tha Ton Marge at White Temple - Chiang Rai Mobile Aluminum Step Ladder Salesman - Found This Odd Chiang Rai Wat Garden Home Nature Resort Bungalow Garlic Harvest Tha Ton Countryside We Love the Water Buffalo Pai Bar Pai River Through Pai Wall of Female Buddha's Baan Suan Rim Pai Guesthouse in Pai Pai Bridges Harvesting Garlic Marge with Spare Tire and Bags of Garlic Pai Wat Bill at the Hot Springs Really Nice Wat Set in Hills Above Pai Bus to Pai

Like an episode from ‘Survivor’, I clung to the door frame of the rickety local bus while standing on the lower step, wedged between my wife and another person, challenging myself to hang on just a little while longer, hopeful that someone, a...

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]]> Fare Thee Well tag:vox.com,2008-03-10:asset-6a00e3989e11a3000400e398e474de0004 2008-03-10T09:39:18Z 2008-03-10T09:48:58Z Bill and Marge Pfeffer http://pfeffer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Cruising Up the Mekong on the Luangsay Boat The Luangsay Cruise Ship Below Cruising The Mekong River Marge Relaxing On Board View Upriver Better Than A Milk Carton Mekong River Boat - Shallow Draft A Pig In A Poke ? The Many Statues in The Buddha Cave Bill on the Luangsay More Mekong River Amazing Statues in the Cave Bill Checking Out Scenery

Like a scene from a Mark Twain novel, our pilot deftly maneuvered around the Mekong shallows while his first mate, using a 30’ bamboo pole, continuously sounded for the bottom by repeatedly plunging this pole into the river. Wouldn’t it be easi...

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]]> Stuck In A Moment tag:vox.com,2008-03-07:asset-6a00e3989e11a3000400e398e371a30004 2008-03-07T03:55:35Z 2008-03-07T03:57:07Z Bill and Marge Pfeffer http://pfeffer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Views form Muong Ngoi Great Walk to the Local Villages Muong Ngoi Wat Everyone Comes Out to See the Visitors Cozy Boat Ride Back to Nong Khiaw Mekong Seaweed - Pound Flat, Dry, Add Sesame Seeds, Fry - Very, Very Good Muong Ngoi Harbor Traversing the Rice Paddies Early Morning Alms in Luang Prabang Uh - Hold the Garlic on That Pizza Walking Thru a Village Ning Ning Guesthouse Behind Marge Waiting for the Boat in Muong Ngoi Marge, What's On TV ?

Remove the engine from your automobile, strap it on the deck of a boat, shoehorn 30 passengers shoulder to shoulder, knee to knee, on hard wooden planks, then speed downriver, avoiding protruding rocks and stopping at occasional local villages ...

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]]> Down by The River tag:vox.com,2008-03-03:asset-6a00e3989e11a3000400f48ce09b910003 2008-03-03T01:42:14Z 2008-03-03T06:11:43Z Bill and Marge Pfeffer http://pfeffer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Sunset on Nam Ou River Our Bungalow #12 Beautiful Limestone Karst Path Through Young Teak Forest Beating for Grasshoppers Cute Kids - No Charge Village Harbor Typical Village Hut Marge and Her Village Holy Cow Batman - It's Bigfoot Wonderful Vistas The Grade School Marge on a Hike Nong Khiaw Bungalows Vista from Our Deck Young Gals Carrying Firewood Love That Dish The Only Bridge for Quite A While Looking Upriver Village of Nong Khiaw Scenery Around Nong Khiaw

Four hours north of Luang Prabang lays the delicious little hamlet of Nong Khiaw astride the beautiful Nam Ou River. On the recommendation of a fellow traveler, we headed north from Luang Prabang on 4 hour minibus journey, a kaleidoscope of stu...

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