Planes, tuktuks and automobiles
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24 hours. That’s how long our flight to Bangkok would have been. 24 hours, and we were still in Chicago! Gotta love travel and Xmas time. I won’t bore you with the painful details, but I will offer this advice.. Do not travel near this man:
All I have to say is “5 hours of singing”. OMFG.
Things I’ve discovered so far…
– Leo is a decent beer if it’s hot enough, which it always is in Bangkok.
– Bangkok is hella poluted. Yes hella. Taking tuktuks is cheaper, kinda dangerous and video-game like. But also pollution rich. I need new lungs, and nostrils.
– Street food, check. So weird, so good and so spicy (if you get the good stuff). I ate at least 2 random meats yesterday and we’re still not sure what Miranda ate.. So far we are mostly not sick! So that’s something, mostly 😛
– Negotiating is fun. I forgot about (and missed) this sport. Kinda wish I could negotiate for everything in life, also wish I knew the target price for some of these things. I’ll just assume we’ve had nothing but good deals based on how angry we’ve made people – the measure of successful bargaining in my books! 😛
– Bars here are weird. So many young women, so many foreigners. Oh and so many “ladyboys”, it’s like being back in the gaybourhood! Just odd, and surprising, kinda not really…
– I don’t have a photo, thank god, but melty-face-woman haunts my nightmares.
– Muay Thai “boxing” is not boxing. It’s just two young dudes made of muscle just kicking the crap out of each other. Knees are welcome (and encouraged). Kinda nuts. Ah Bangkok!
Also, long live the emperor and his grapes.. Kiss the ring!
Not sure how we got the best seats in the house..
– Khaosan Road has overrated food in Toronto which holds true here! So far the best food has been street food, just like back home 😛
– Love foreign fashion. Want. #englishnotmakesensehere
– My beautiful wife on a boat. She’s all mine, so was the boat. #privateboattour
Also you can’t see fish, but you can see cottage showers.
Fun times!
That is all!
J
