Adrianna TanI recently found a photo of my mom in Mae Salong, Thailand. It was yet another example of 'I had a random idea... and she may not have always understood all of it but wanted to support me anyway'.
One time I read about how the Kuomintang had soldiers from the regiment in Yunnan, in northern Thailand. "Wouldn't it be great if we could go and meet them before they died??" (I was a China / Thailand history buff)
She wasn't enthused by the history parts but she loved the idea of a trip.
We flew into Bangkok (for like $100 one way), and took a series of public buses to Mae Salong. There, we walked around asking people in Chinese and Thai, where we could find these ex soldiers.
She translated for me (I speak several Chinese languages, and some Thai, but my mom seems to have the ability to speak every single Chinese language), and we ate noodles and had fresh soy milk from the wet market every morning before we went to meet a soldier.
I never published any of that work but I recently found some of the photos and notes from that trip.
I've had so many adventures with them!
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