May, our guide, took us to markets and cafes. We took a short ride in the red taxi.

Khai Soi is the common dish of N Thailand, with chicken and noodles.

The brown shed was a small (6 tables!) cafe with amazing food!

The meat was water buffalo, which was quite good.

This is the inside of 'water buffalo' cafe.

Chiang Mai

January 15 in Thailand ⋅ ☀️ 82 °F

We spent my favorite day here with (our Yachats friend) Rachel’s friend, who is a professor of Linguistics at a Chiang Mai university. She is a missionary with World Venture, the group I went to Senegal with, 40+ years ago. We sat at a university cafe with her for a couple of hours, hearing about her life and work here, teaching and translating. A fascinating visit! (I can’t post pictures of her. )

Yesterday we went on a food tour that ended up being with just May, our tour guide, and the two of us. We sampled Northern Thai foods at five stops. May drove a Ford pickup, which was comparatively quite large, and she parked in tiny spots- now THAT was an adventure!Read more