Chiang Mai,
Thailand
3 April 2010
Dear Family and Friends,

I needed to “get out of the house.”  And since I had always been curious about a small town called Mae Sot in the northwest of Thailand, I booked the short flight to the northern city of Chiang Mai and “got out.” 

With an inspiring assortment of ancient, contemprary and hilltop Buddhist temples, gardens, mountains, rivers for rafting, elephants for riding, snake farms, orchid farms and a crowded night market for bargaining and souvenir hunting, Chiang Mai is one of the busiest tourist destinations in Thailand.