Here are some of my favorite photos from my trip to Thailand in 2008. The resort has some baby elephants, and everyone flocked to the babies. But the adult ones, like above, were just wandering the beach with a handler. Since I was the only person there, I got to have a very c The handler asked the elephant to kneel, and it held out a front knee for me to use as a step up. It was super gentle and soft and treated well. At one point, the elephant just started wandering off. The handler said “Hey, come back here!” and pretended to be concerned that the elephant was just…