Travel Blog

I like to take pictures (and use Pishcha's, who takes far better shots than me). I also enjoy taking videos, speeding them up, and see the world at a different speed. Here are a few recent medias that I think are fun. Please comment as desired. There's also a "subscribe" function on the left panel, to be notified of my future posts.      Met several trail runners on this trail. I asked one lady if she'll do the upcoming marathon here; she replied "well, it depends on the results of my last 50k race" (me: "what?!") Pishcha Pishcha Pishcha Pishcha Getting beat up by the (powerful) waterfall.

Over the most recent holiday weekend ( October 23rd is Chulalongkorn Day ) it was great to get out of the city and visit the province of Ratchaburi, just west of Bangkok and bordering Myanmar. There are quite a few hiking trails in the area and we chose Khao Laem Suan Phueng, apparently a well-known trail and frequented by trail-runners, day-hikers (like us), and I guess anyone else who's interested in getting outside! Since I enjoy data I tracked the hike on my Garmin watch, which provided location data (in addition to heart-rate, timing, steps, etc). I was able to pull that out (with help from Garmin , this YouTuber , and this data science guy ). I also wrote a little script to extract and transform the data in C# using Visual Studio, posting it to GitHub. It seems that not so many people have extracted their data, but it's fun solving problems that no one has considered!  Anyway, below are the results from importing the location data to GoogleMaps and using their 3D/Earth v...