Well, we made it to our home on the Myanmar (Burma) border. Everything was just like we left it. Daeng's brother Tun and his wife, Hlong keep everything in good condition. It is a lot to take care of with 9 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, 2 inside kitchens and outside cooking area. Half of the home is dark, Teak flooring so it shows any dust and has to be cleaned every day or two to look nice. 
Our five day stay in Bangkok was fun as there is a lot of diversity at the largest city in Thailand. I think the populations of greater Bangkok is around twelve million folks. There is lots of food with every kind of food you can think of; yes, even McDonald's.
Across the road from our room is a biker bar that has reserved spaces for Harley-Davis Motorcycles. Yep, Harley riders get treated special here, as well. 
On another day we met our friend "Boonma", Mark Roger from New York, near his guesthouse at Khaosan Road. Khaosan road is by the huge "Chao Phraya River". This area has turned into an upscale sheik shopping area.
We had to laugh as the old lady that was minding the booth where we took the picture of Daeng holding the shirt got mad at us because we did not buy the shirt after taking the picture. I guest we get grumpy when we get old.
We all laughed about that! We had to visit a Temple and ring the bells. Everyone that visits Thailand needs to do that several times. Over the years we have probably rang a few hundred temple bells, maybe a thousand. 
It is fun to see how loud you can make the bells ring. Ringing the bells three times after each prayer is supposed to bring the prayer to life. We rang them really hard.
There are lots of animals on the streets in Bangkok, dogs, cats, lizards, rats, etc. Some are bigger than others. 
Speaking of looking for food, we like to eat in a little place called "Food Land" on Soi 5 off Sukhamvit Road. It is a counter seated place with Western and Thai food.
It is very clean, prices are good and the staff is friendly. Another name for the place is "Took Lae Dee" which translated to English means "Cheap and Good". An American Breakfast of two eggs, bacon, two toast, orange or pineapple juice and coffee is 54 Thai Baht (about $1.80 US).
It is also a large western style market that has just about anything you would want. We buy black pepper there as whole black pepper is hard to find in Thai markets.
After a couple days of resting and shopping, for some reason they just don't got together, we made the 1 hour and 10 minute trip to north to Chiang Rai. We picked up our rented Nissan March and drove the 59 Km to our home in Mae Sai.
It was nice to pick up some things for the house at Tesco Lotus, a large western style shopping market. We also had an ice cream cone at KFC. 
In the morning, we had a little Thai breakfast at the morning market. It consisted of fish, a river fish with almost no bone, sticky rice, coffee and tea, all served on banana leaf.
Than to Bangkok Bank for a letter that says I have more that 800,000 THB in the bank for over 90 days. Onward to The Thai Immigration Office to renew my retirement visa. That went very well and I now can come and go into and out of Thailand any time I want to for the next year ending March 13, 2014.
Tomorrow we are driving to Chiang Rai as Daeng has a dentist appointment at 6:00 PM with a dentist that specializes in periodontal problems. Deang is okay but sometimes has a shooting pain in one of her back teeth. We want to make sure it does not become a big problem.
Life is good!
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