Sawadee from Bangkok! After about 28 hours we finally arrived in Bangkok. Yes if you can fathom that, try this at home. Find the least comfortable chair in your house, pull a dresser or other large immoveable object up to your knees then sit there continuously for 28 hours. Trust me it's a lot less fun than it sounds.
Bangkok is, of course, the usual shit show. Every taxi in this city seems to loose its meter function whenever farang (white people) sit inside. Then there's the classic "Amazing Race moment" where taxi drivers tell you they know where to go then continuing to get lost. We're staying at a place called Lamphu Tree House and the taxi driver from the Airport kept repeating "Lampu Tree How, I take you there... " followed by "Lamphu tree how rye? No proborem" Of course he dropped us off at Rambutri House then finally, after driving around for another 15 minutes, decided to look at a map. "Ah... Lamphu Tree How... I take you there." The kicker is, we had the instructions with us, written in Thai, so there would not be a proborem. In Bangkok, there's always proborems!
Well, I won't bore you with the issues we had today, because I just drank two delicious Changs and ate some fantastic Phad Thai and we're off to explore Koh San road before we board the train to Laos. The one good thing about Bangkok is, wherever you go from here, is bound to be sleepy and we're looking forward to some serious kicking back in Laos... it's famous for that.
Until Laos, this is Paul, still alive and still spotless.
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