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Quickie Thai Facts 7-9
7. The name Thailand means Land of the Free. The Thai people actually call their country Meung Thai (เมืองไทย), which translates “city of Thais”.
8. King Ramkhamhaeng, who ruled at the end of the thirteenth century, created the first Thai alphabet.
9. There are approximately 3.6 million rice farming families in Thailand totaling around 20 million [...]
Newsletter for January-April 2008
…and we’re back. We didn’t go anywhere, though. We’ve been here this whole time doing the same old same-old.
You can read what we’ve been up to in the latest newsletter. And you can download it here.
Cambodian Adventure - Day 2
Here’s the second video. That morning we got up early and packed thirteen people (the nine of us, P.Neung, his mom and niece, and another lady we picked up along the way) plus all of our luggage onto one pickup truck and drove to the border of Cambodia. From there, we took 2 [...]
Snapshot #10 - Hello from Malaysia
I wanted to get a quick post up here while we are still in Malaysia. We landed here on the 20th so that we could come to the Thai embassy in Kuala Lumpur early Monday morning. The visa that allowed us to stay in Thailand expired on the 20th, and we needed to [...]
Snapshot #9 - Princess
I’ve almost stepped on this little pooch on more than one occasion. She belongs to one of the many street vendors that line the road as you go to the church building at Somprasong 4. She’s all the time running up and down the sidewalk, and the only warning you get of her [...]
Cambodian Adventure - Day 1
This is the first of three videos I’ll put up about the trip we took through Cambodia in December. This one documents our first day, which was spent in Sa Gaew, Thailand, the hometown of P.Neung, a Christian at Somprasong 4. He’s the one who drinks the eggs in the video.
Cambodian Adventure - Day 1 [...]
Back At It
We hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and that these first couple weeks of the new year have already been blessed. This site had a vacation as well. Well, we’re back, and we’ve got a new suit on.
First, if you haven’t read our latest newsletter, we hope you’ll take a look at [...]
Our New Digs
The new year brings in a new look for nealeanddalissa.com. We hope you like the new layout and format.
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Newsletter for October-December 2007
The Oct-Dec newsletter is done. You can download it here.
Snapshot #8 - 99% Cambodian
I snapped this one evening walking past a line of storefronts in Siem Reap, Cambodia. It is sad that the ingeniousness of this probably went entirely unnoticed. To attest to this, the shop offering the Body Spa, Facial, Massage, Shiatsu, Reflexology, Manicure, and Pedicure service that put this up was completely empty.