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Not all our activities for guests were this cultural. One of my husband���s favorite pranks was to drive guests to one of the many ���no tell motels��� and park our car next to the door. As was customary, the attendants would appear and quickly pull a canvas screen around the car. Normal patrons could then enter the room without being observed. However, we would quickly back the car out from the curtain, leave the attendants puzzled and cackle madly all the way home. Shortly after our arrival, Jim Thompson mysteriously disappeared. Jim had revitalized the Thai silk industry and amassed a sensational collection of Buddhist art and Asian porcelains. He built a beautiful house in Bangkok constructed from five wooden traditional Upcountry Thai houses from Ayutthaya. These houses were built with no nails and could be taken apart and reassembled as owners moved from place to place. He filled his house with his artifacts. To this day, no one knows for sure what happened to him when he disappeared in the Cameron Highlands north of Singapore. But I never tire of visiting his house, now a national museum nestled along a klong, and pondering his fate. My favorite way of travelling around the city was the white bus system. Even then, the buses seemed a bit dated with their rounded corners and hard bench seats. The routes were complicated, but I learned them all and kept a supply of baht coins to have my fare ready. There were two things that always happened on the bus. The first thing was that the other passengers would stare at the HYLAND