I decided to make a radical change in my life. It occurs to me sometimes that the universe made the decision for me. Either way, I reduced my entire life down to a single backpack – no job, no pension, no plan – and walked off the map. I started in Japan and ended up in a rural border village in Northeast Thailand. What you see and hear on these pages is my view of things from here.
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Walking Away
by William Snyder Ban Kan Throm, Thailand April 23, 2026 Beyond the checkpoint, I’d settled into a seat along the wall where floor-to-ceiling windows stretched past the coffee shop before I noticed … before the weight of actually being there settled on my chest. Sunrise dancing off the tarmac. A faint smell of duty-free perfume.
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The Corner Store
Inside this small border village in southern Isaan, at the far end of the main road, is a gathering place that serves as tavern, drugstore, temple, mercantile, and healer’s shrine. It is also home to a man named Yow. From six in the morning until eight at night, every day of the year, villagers come
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The Night The Village Moved in Circles
April 9, 2026 Ban Kan Throm, Thailand by William Snyder Listening to the familiar sounds of daybreak over coffee, on the elevated covered porch of our stilted village home, I spotted her in the distance. Even from that range I could see the small bag in her left hand as she moved from house to
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