The Train Ticket to Korat Peace Corps purchased to get me to my assignment
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Kevin Wheeler with Laotian boy - the brother of a fellow teacher.
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Kevin with two students at Surnaree School in Korat - 1971
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Kevin standing outside the teacher's housing compound. The sign says "Teacher's Residences."
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Kevin with three fellow English teachers. He married the one on the far left. Taken in 1973
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Kevin with Mary- a British volunteer in Korat. July 70
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Students at Suranaree School in Korat.
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Two teachers heading off to work in the rainy season in Korat. Sakorn, Kevin's future wife, is on the right. June 72
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Maggie, a British volunteer and Renee Trent at party in Korat.
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Sakorn, my future wife, paddling a "boat" made from styrofoam bomb casings. These were widely used in Thailand as boats.
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Kevin's birthday party. Students cook his favorite desert.
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Sakorn on the left and Laothip, another teacher at my school, who is now a Peace Corps language instructor.
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Taking a break at the local market.
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Uwadee and Sakorn paddle over to visit.
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Fellow English teachers at Surnaree School in 1972. I am between the 2 women and the guy on the far right is Adrian Jones, an Australian contract teacher.
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Blah Rah vendor- Korat market
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Maggie and Mary- Two British volunteers. July 70
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Heading to school in the rainy season.
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Polio victim. Lived with another volunteer for awhile.
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"Cold" day in Korat. Temperature was maybe 75. Note the bare feet despite wearing all the other cold gear!
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Patuxai (Anousavary) - Victory Monument in Vientiane, Laos around 1974.
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Samlarw driver catches a few winks.
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Korat street scene - 1970
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(L-R)Kevin Wheeler, Bill Saphir, Jerry Fowers
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Rene Tret and Maggie Perryman
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