11/1/98: Did some more exploration downtown today, and figured out that the cheapest way to getting around town are the songthaews: red pick-up trucks with benches in the back… We joined the Giles for evening worship service at Chiang Mai Community Church, then we went out to dinner with the them afterwards… I think I have a new friend for life in their son Matthew. He and I sat in the back of their pick-up while the others were all up front in the extended cab, and he talked up a storm…
NOTE: The photo above, from Wikipedia, shows a medium-sized inter-village songthaew in northern Thailand.