2008 Year in Review
2 008 Year in Review Highlights: We arrived in Bangkok to start my tour as the Director of the Gobal Financial Service Center in July. We had a lot of visitors, mostly relatives, while in Bangkok from the States and even England. Brother Chris and my Meehan cousins from Norwich, U.K. Liz and John Froud visited Thailand end of January. Raine and Dick visited us in February and we made our way up to Chang Rai and from there took a boat ride on the Mekong river through the "Golden Triangle" where the borders of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar meet and is infamous for trafficking of opium and heroin shipped across the border to Northern Thailand and down to Bangkok. My old Peace Corps buddy Jack Colbourn visited us as well. We took him to a performance of Siam Niramit in Bangkok. Jack with a couple of performers Our Boat on the Mekong River ...