Tag: Southeast Asia
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Accidental Tourism
Overnight train took so much longer than we thought! What we thought was a twelve hour train ride actually was fourteen hours – almost as long as it took us to get to Beijing from L.A. We didn’t arrive in Chiang Mai until lunch time. At the train station we were offered a free ride…
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We Get ThisClose to Royalty (both of the Thai & Transportation Variety)
On our own again this morning, after a familial farewell breakfast. We headed to the Grand Palace, where people were shouting “hurry, hurry, gates close in ten minutes!” Um at eleven am? But still, we hurried… to wait in line. There were a ton of people milling around. The guy behind me was apparently so…
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We Out-Bizarre Foods the Bizarre Foods Guy
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At seven am we hit an appointment market near Koi and Cotton’s house. They had everything there. Clothes for your traditional and modern needs. Shoes. Fruit. Soup. Live turtles in baskets. French fries. DVDs. Vegetables. Beats by Dre. Live fish flopping around. Candy. Sweets. Crepes. Diapers. Fermented fish. A baby elephant. People everywhere. It was…
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Food, Family and Fresh Air
We got up this morning to meet my mom’s cousin, Cotton, had a nice catch up, and then he took us to the Queen-sponsored Thai handicrafts shop (so you know they were made by actual Thai people with Thai material). We also swung by The Erawan Shrine (one of many, many sacred spots in the…
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Tigers – Are They That Grrrrrreat?
Nothing like popcorn and bananas to start the day off right. We had to be at the older, smaller train station at seven – apparently a peak traffic time in the city. Our taxi driver conferred with our hotel receptionist, who tried to confer with us but once again there was some linguistic confusion. We…
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Cruising in Kanchanaburi
We hung out at our sweet hotel this morning, had breakfast and got re-organized. Then we rented bicycles and rode them to the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery and Wartime Railway Museum. It was quite somber, as you can imagine. They had many personal effects and anecdotal stories. Basically, as they were beginning to build the railway,…
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Packing. Like A Boss.
I have been giggling to myself all week. Some of the giggles are of an incredulous nature – I just can’t believe how lucky I am sometimes! Sure, I have no job and my shiny new college degree doesn’t seem to have the magic wand-type power I imagined. But its all good because my mom…
