Now I’ve got 3 locations to choose from: a nice house in the countryside that needs renovating, a dirt cheap house in Korat that needs renovating, and a palatial house in Pattaya. One foot in a beach city, one foot in the countryside, & one foot in a large-ish Thai city. Yes, yes, I know […]
Category: Day in the Life
can’t stop moving
This time we took a trip down to pattaya, the beach town down the coast from bangkok. it’s different now, more gentrified, families, nice beaches and cafes, it’s a lot bigger than I remember it though I didn’t spend much time there the last time I was there.
going up the country
Driving around Thailand is like discovering the whole country all over again because I get to see places I had never seen before even though I’ve spent years here. Alaska’s ears are standing up now.
from Bangkok to isaan
I’m getting situated in Korat and the countryside northeast of Buriram. Spent a lot of time driving the past few weeks just trying to get the two houses situated and in working order. Mostly I need an office. That’s the biggest thing. A place where I can work on AI and marketing and of course […]
checkin out the new hood in korat
A 75 year old grandma lives on the street and she feeds a whole bunch of stray dogs so there’s a pack of them that sleep in the street every day. You have to wait for them to lethargically get up, like six or seven of them, every time you drive down the street. She […]
Coming together
House is finally coming together, one bit at a time. Bathroom was looking good until they put in this wall here…we think they were drinking on the job. They couldn’t even make it square.
Welcome to Isaan
Alaska
That’s the dog’s name. ChatGPT says his floppy ear should straighten out soon.
Cow Farm Fortune
In rural Thailand there’s no better way to go from rags to riches than by becoming a cow gene broker. Find yourself a stud of a bull, use it as a baby daddy for local cow farmers, then reap the rewards. In this case, a nice house.