thank you to all of you who wrote an email or called about us to make sure we made it back safely. even though it sounds scary about the military coup, it would have been an extended vacation for us. another really cool thing, if we had been there, is that the exchange rate rose and we can get 37 baht to the dollar.

oh well. i heard on the news that you can still travel in the country and everything is ok except around bangkok’s government buildings. i also heard of some tourists taking pictures of themselves with the tanks. thailand is a playground. in the midst of such unrest, the tourist can take pics with the soldiers!

anyways, we are back safe. i am in the middle of writing i think the last post for thailand.

i will continue to write about my travels since i travel for my work. as i am writing this, i am in california on a project. i returned from thailand on sunday, spent the day with dan on monday, and flew out first thing to san francisco on tuesday. i am here til friday.

thanks again for your concern and rest assured that our return was perfect timing.