It’s not even midnight but Lena has been asleep almost an hour. As the last two nights have shown, my affinity for the night has a faster acting recovery method than hers does. Of course, tonight, I too would be nearly napping without a bottle of Thai Red Bull spiking my mind with rapid thunder. [...]

It’s still mind boggling to know that it’s yesterday in Seattle. We went to the Grand Palace today, which was grand, yet extremely touristy. However, we walked there and on the way we found a series of streets with absolutely no white people or other foreigners. And even though there seemed to be only Thai [...]

So, I had an epiphany while walking through the streets of Bangkok last night. I found a grocery store and noticed a pattern in the prices relating to the value of the item here and in the US. It appears that the Thai baht to the Thai is as the dime is to the US [...]

We got in at 23:00, Monday July 18th. After realizing that the airport was more confusing than we thought it would be, we finally found a metered taxi. We were so tired, we just took the 400 Baht offer to the hotel. The cabbie was nice and it worked out. I was expecting to pay [...]

Going to Thailand for 28 days and here’s what I am bringing: click to view gallery Daypack containing: Compact/Lightweight REI travel raincoat Documents (Itinerary, copies of passport and credit card, flight info, hotel booking receipts, printed map details, etc…) Fodor’s Citypack Bangkok (with an excellent Bangkok map) Thai the Rough Guide Dictionary Phrasebook Power converter [...]