Gig in Snow & Jim is Not

Jim is on vacation in Guam, taking a break from our winter in Thailand. We flew from ChiangMai to Singapore to Tokyo. I then flew home to the states, and Jim stayed in Japan for a day or so, where he biked around Narita City, and then flew to Guam for a brief stopover on the way to Australia. Here he is with some young Japanese tourists there.




Gig immediately had a snowstorm to deal with, where just a few days ago (see below), she was celebrating Valentine's Day in 90 degree temps.



My last week in Chiang Mai, Gade had a lovely dinner party on Elliebum's patio for me, Anne and Trudi. Delicious food and wine and great company!

Akha Hill Tribe

Jim wrote:
The Akha are a hill tribe of subsistence farmers known for their artistry. The ethnic group may have originated in Mongolia around 1500 years ago. Most of the remaining Akha people are now distributed in small villages among the mountains of China, Laos, Myanmar (Burma), and northern Thailand, where they are one of the six main hill tribes. The Akha began arriving in Thailand in the early twentieth century and continue to immigrate, with some 80,000 now living in Thailand's northern provinces.
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