I just got back from two weeks in Thailand. I have so many blog ideas inspired by my trip! The most obvious being a multi-part travel guide to the country.

I also bought a lot of pencils over there. Like…I may have gotten carried away. I stumbled upon numerous tiny, cramped, labyrinthine office supply shops; and even the pervasive 7-11 stores had something to offer. Here’s a sampling of my haul (note that I bought multiple of each, an entire dozen when it was available at a good price, so this is just the tip of the iceberg):

I’m pretty impressed with some of the ones I’ve used already. Ideally I’d like to review all of these pencils, and track down suppliers for obtaining the good ones in the US. It seems like most of the are actually made in Thailand. They apparently have a pretty thriving pencil industry, which is awesome, and I’m glad to be able to add some fresh stuff to the pencil blogosphere, but I’m a little bit afraid that I’ll fall in love with a pencil that I have to go all the way back to Thailand to get!

And that’s not to mention posts about food, adventures, and good ol’ photo dumps. Plus some non-Thailand content to break it up.

That’s a lot of blog post fodder. We’ll see how many of these post ideas pan out!