http://twohelp.org/thailand/updates Updates from Khao Lak, Thailand Sat, 13 Aug 2005 17:59:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So our time in Khao Lak has come to an end. As so often happens, we spent our last day doing many of the things we’d talked about doing the whole time we were there. Clay was at last invited behind the magic curtain at Lamuan Seafood, to ... http://twohelp.org/thailand/updates/goodbye-to-khao-lak/ Imagine for a moment that a freak wave comes through your neighborhood and destroys your house and all of your possessions, killing many of your friends, neighbors, and relatives. As the chaos of the destruction begins to settle, imagine that the mafia comes to your neighborhood in the middle ... http://twohelp.org/thailand/updates/the-saga-of-laem-pom/ As promised, here is the photo of Alexis with the logo that she designed and completed at the Cape Pakarang boat yard. It is duplicated, with the lettering reorganized, on the other side of the boat. http://twohelp.org/thailand/updates/completed-logo/ Today, for the first time since our arrival in Khao Lak, Alexis and I worked at the same site. The boat yard at Cape Pakarang is a project that was started to help provide fishing boats to the Thai fishermen who lost their boats during the tsunami. The ... http://twohelp.org/thailand/updates/cape-pakarang-boat-shed/ -- A brief overview of Khao Lak restaurants and their top dishes -- http://twohelp.org/thailand/updates/penang-chicken-with-prendchaw/ Thanks to the generous support of our 40 donors, we achieved our fundraising goal! Any additional funds donated to us through TwoHelp.org will be donated in their entirety to ongoing reconstruction projects in the Khao Lak area. Once the money is donated, we will post updates that detail ... http://twohelp.org/thailand/updates/fundraising-goal-reached/ Well, it’s still the rainy season, but you’d never know it this week. It has been sunny and gorgeous, but HOT. Clay and I escaped for the weekend to a beach further south, Railay, to actually enjoy rather than avoid the water. The beaches here are still ... http://twohelp.org/thailand/updates/sunny-day-in-thailand/ It is over two weeks since we arrived in Khao Lak, and the only consistency here is that every day is different. We work a variety of different projects -- some construction, some administrative. Among other things, we created a map of the town of Bang Ban La ... http://twohelp.org/thailand/updates/stinky-fruit/ To give you an idea of the force of the waves that hit this area, take a look at this picture: http://twohelp.org/thailand/updates/the-force-of-the-wave/ So, it’s Day 6 and I think I’m beginning to get the lay of the land here, maybe, sort of. Today was gorgeous. It was the first day without a cloud in the sky and my plastic poncho finally got a chance to dry out. Clay and ... http://twohelp.org/thailand/updates/day-6/