Thailand

Freighter leaving the Port of Laem Chabang, Pattaya, Thailand

Holy no posting Batman. Hard to believe that more than two months has passed since the last post. OK, so actually it's not so difficult to believe. A good chunk of May and nearly all of June was spent out on the road or in the field. Back-to-back-to-back assignments and a number of other things going on outside of work/ photo stuff left little time for updating this thing.

Well, first I spent some time in Thailand. I was there for a little more than a week, which is coincidentally nearly the same length of time it takes to get there from the east coast of the U.S. Well, not really, but after 20 hours on a plane, it starts to feel that way.

I was there to cover disaster response and port operations agencies as they went through training. Did that, but there was quite a bit of down time, so we were able to go check out Bangkok and Pattaya, the two main cities that we were in. Thailand was not at all what I expected it to be like. I expected there to be more trash strewn about and much more obvious prostitution. Perhaps I just wasn't visiting the right parts of town.


Bangkok. More scooters, mopeds and motorcycles than you'd ever know what to do with.


It's like Chips, but no Erik Estrada.


Downtown Bangkok.


Outskirts of Bangkok.


Wading into the Gulf of Thailand, Pattaya, Thailand


Mending fishing nets, near Pattaya


Unloading freighters, Port of Laem Chabang


Firefighters training at the Port of Laem Chabang.


Firefighting training. I got soaked when a hose broke loose from the nozzle portion.


Firefighter, Port of Laem Chabang


And while in Thailand the world ended. Or, at least the sky looked like that was so.