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From: goodsoldierschweik@gmail.com
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:14:13 -0700 (PDT), LarbGai
wrote:
>Greetings from the mysterious East!
>
>My name is Steve and I'm an American ex-pat, a retired university
>professor having taught in the Kansai Region of Japan for 13 years.
>I retired from the classroom podium years ago, and we went off in
>search of further adventures, devoting our time to new careers of
>photography, photojournalism, and travel.
>
>We've always spent a lot of time vacationing and traveling around S.E.
>Asia and the western Pacific Islands, and have seen some wonderful
>sights during these explorations, and so decided to make the Northern
>Thailand mountain regions of the "Golden Triangle"
>(the Thai- Burma-Laos border area,) our new part time home base . We
>can still be reached there several months a year, but we're hard to
>pin down!!
>
>We moved to a new home in a beautifully small town that thinks it's a
>city. The foods are fantastic (if a bit hot,) the scenery is not to be
>believed (there was an elephant walking down the street the other
>day!) and the people friendly, helpful, and always smiling. I guess
>that's why they call this part of the word "The Land of Smiles!" The
>Northern Thai people (known as the 'Lanna Thai,) are very relaxed and
>easy-going, (much more so than in the south,) and have a culture quite
>different from those in regions below Bangkok. There is a distinct
>mixture of Chinese, Burmese, and Laotian sounds, foods, and ideas, and
>the mix makes for a delightful lifestyle. Although I like it here,
>we've now expanded our living sphere, and are only in Thailand several
>months out of the year, spending more time in Singapore, Hong Kong,
>Japan, and Indonesia.
>
>As much as I enjoyed teaching tourists how to use their cameras, new
>professional arenas called and I felt that I wanted to pursue more
>commercial photography and photojournalism rather than teaching. So
>now, instead of teaching photography full time, you can find us
>wandering around Thailand, diving in Indonesia, motorcycle touring in
>Europe, eating great foods in Hong Kong and Singapore, enjoying the
>Cherry Blossoms in Japan, then traveling on again! Thailand is nice,
>but all of Asia is home. Europe is our back yard, and America... a
>nice place to visit once in a while.
>
>I have lots of hobbies and interests to keep me busy when not
>traveling though. I'm a certified Scuba Divemaster. love to ride
>motorcycle through the mountains, forests and jungles all over the
>world, play guitar, enjoy classical, jazz, 'new age,' blues, and folk
>music. I love to cook foods from all over the world, go trekking
>through remote jungles, ride horses, read cheap novels, and grow
>potted plants. I was an avid fencer, practice Chinese Martial arts,
>and study marine biology and Chinese Philosophy.
>
>Along with my wife, Nobuko, I travel to remote islands off the coast
>of Malaysia, Thailand, and Singapore, as well as Micronesia and the
>islands of the Northern Marianna's and the Western Pacific in search
>of the perfect dive site and 'the perfect picture!' Over the years,
>we've managed to find quite a few. Exploration of our world helps keep
>us young, as do the PHOTO SAFARIS we've been taking all over South
>East Asia!! Come along and join us for a fantastic adventure!
>
>I apologize for the slow opening of the following pages. I wanted to
>maintain the highest quality in the images and the pages are brimming
>with new photos. Please enjoy the show!
Obviously a renaissance man.
(or perhaps only an old man dreaming of what might have been)
--
Cheers,
Schweik
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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