Traffic as Usual And Then.......

    Driving to dinner about  5 pm traffic was about as heavy as usual.   The street was filled with a variety of vehicles; cars, pickups, trucks, thee wheel contraptions attached to motorbikes they call 'samlors' and the ubiquitous motorbikes with up to five passengers.  Motor bikes drive everywhere, both sides, between, in front and back, and, when cars stop they do not.
    Suddenly at a busy intersection traffic screeches to halt as a large Brahma cow wanders placidly across the intersection.  This, after we were met by a herd of free range goats.   In the next block we meet a stock truck loaded with elephants headed to their quarters after a day of ferrying tourists. Traffic in Minneapolis was never like this!
    At 7:00 pm, as I write this, we are being serenaded by million decibel rock music from the temple about a quarter of a mile away. Poe guessed it was to mark 100 days since the king died.  If so the monks could choose much more somber music.  There are no noise ordinances in Thailand.

Free range goats in the road.