http://www.sailblogs.com/member/sora Copyright 2009 SailBlogs.com Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:32 -0500 720 Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:32 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en support@sailblogs.com support@sailblogs.com http://www.sailblogs.com/images/sb_rss_icon.gif http://www.sailblogs.com/ 88 31 Weblogs for Sailors and Sailing http://www.sailblogs.com/member/sora?xjMsgID=82387 Unfortunately Miss Pat's English and my Thai did not come to a meeting of the minds and we arrived at 9:30 AM for the 2:30 PM class. But fortunately the Phuket Zoo was only 10 minutes away. (Continued...) Karen Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:35:05 -0600 http://www.sailblogs.com/member/sora?xjMsgID=82387 7.8464 98.416 http://www.sailblogs.com/member/sora?xjMsgID=82385 No visit to Thailand is complete without experiencing the marvelously healthy and delicious foods that are prepared here. And the best way to do that is learning how to do it yourself. Mandy is vegetarian and Cass has always loved to cook so they're apt candidates for Thai cooking school. (Continued...) Karen Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:39:31 -0600 http://www.sailblogs.com/member/sora?xjMsgID=82385 7.8464 98.416 http://www.sailblogs.com/member/sora?xjMsgID=82378 The world's second most powerful earthquake, the 12/26/04 tsunami, has not altered the super-sized beauty of the Andaman Coast. The emerald waters of Phangna Nga are clean but silty due to the rivers emptying into the bay from the mainland. So we briefly visited the craggy limestone towers concealing hongs (Cave systems where the top of the cave has collapsed leaving a steep crater in the island which is only accessible from caves at low tide), caves, and honey-hued beaches to the east of Phuket on our journey south to find clear snorkeling waters. (Continued...) Karen Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:57:21 -0600 http://www.sailblogs.com/member/sora?xjMsgID=82378 7.6112 98.3631 http://www.sailblogs.com/member/sora?xjMsgID=82376 The Kreitzberg daughters chose the end of February to celebrate Christmas with the family. With little more than 2 weeks planning Mandy flew from NYC and Cassie from Whangarei, New Zealand. My passport had run out of Visa pages so Terry and I took the opportunity to visit the American Embassy in Bangkok and within 15 minutes I had 20 clean pages to fill. What a difference from the 6 week fiasco obtaining these same pages for Terry and Cassie in Australia! (Continued...) Karen Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:15:05 -0600 http://www.sailblogs.com/member/sora?xjMsgID=82376 13.7333 100.5