Life on the Mekong and Other Rivers

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Sunday, August 28, 2005

Mekong Cuisine

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/26/international/asia/26thailand.html

And as a part of the story, you will learn that this is how you get things done around here...

"Before he headed out on May 1, one of the men who caught it, Thirayuth Panthayom, 29, made sure luck would be on his side. He said he prayed at the shrine of the God of Catfish and begged his boat to help him, "Please, Miss Boat, let me catch something today and I'll sacrifice a chicken for you.""

Katherine has safely arrived in the states. She's in Larchmont visiting for a few days until she goes up to Rensselaerville for more visiting, then on to DC for training.

I spent the day up North at Dansavanh, playing 18 holes with our friend Jon from Health Frontiers (you've heard about them before if you are at all dedicated to this site, which you should be). After that, we drove up to the Hotel and Casino on the Nam Ngum reservoir to check it out. They had an honest to goodness bar-size pool table AND air hockey there, so that provided some good entertainment.

Anyway, that was my Sunday. All in all, a pretty damn good day.

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