Jim Thompson House

I took a trip over to see the Jim Thompson house with Lori, visiting from Kabul. Jim Thompson was an American who came to Thailand just after World War II and helped revive the Thai silk industry. While here he built a classic Thai house that's still considered a model of Thai architecture and is a popular tourist site. He died mysteriously in Malaysia back in the 1960s, went for a hike and just never came back. Lots of conspiracy theories about whether somebody had it in for him, but most likely explanation is he just got eaten by a tiger. The company lives on, however, and I've got a number of great Thais from the Jim Thompson Silk Co.