Blogs from Bangkok, Central Thailand, Thailand, Asia - page 701

I got to the airport a little early. Having not confirmed my flight time and with a few delays, I l actually left for the airport about 5 hours before my flight. Awesome. Its about 9 hours to Auckland where I have a lovely 8 hour layover and then a 12 hour flight to Los Angeles. If I am lucky I will have 3-4 hours at LAX and then will head home to San Francisco. A good 35 hours of travel it seems.. I'll see all of you at home soon... Be well, jeff... read more

Alana left really early this morning and I had a meeting with our distributor here in Thailand and a professor at the technical University. It was a very long day. I ended up on the subway at about 6 headed for Siam center. This shopping area in Bangkok is like the Las Vegas strip of shopping malls. Nearly 6 NYC size city blocks full of shopping malls, each catering to a different demographic with various restaurants, food courts and attractions. The people here love the mall, and go to the mall to eat at the many restaurants and buffets which actually seem to have good food. It is hard to get a suggestion of an actual restaurant to go to as everyone suggests the Paragon Shopping Center, or Siam Discovery Center. Its a little over the ... read more

My brain is a jar of pickles right now, i don't know if that is a proper analogy but I don't care. I was on China airlines where the majority spoke chinese, wasn't sure what the pilot or what anyone else was saying at the time, then I happen upon Taiwan where everyone speaks taiwanese which is why I got lost in the first place. Now here I is in Bangkok, Thailand where everyone speaks Thai. I wake up every morning pretty surprised myself how I made it this far. At the airport i had no clue where to go or what to do or where to get my bags, all I know is I had to walk at least a good quarter mile to get to where I needed to be. Changed about $40 USD ... read more

ãlana we are back here in bangkok and dealing with the fact that we will be heading back home soon. this morning we were in chiang mai. we went up to see one of the kingś palaces up in themountains then headed to a temple, doi suthep. it was really beautiful, a nice way to end our stay in chiang mai. GO TO CHIANG MAI IF YOU ARE EVER IN THAILAND. stay at the baan orapin, it was so homey and sweet. we took a really great cooking class yesterday, made red curry paste, fried talapia (fish), panaeng curry, chiang mai curry, cold glass nooodle spicy salad, black rice pudding dessert, hot and sour vegetables. it was delicious and really fun. now we are at the old bangkok inn,which is this cute little bed/breakfast type place ... read more

Today at 1700 I am catching the overnight bus/ferry to Koh Samui where I will be for a week. Really looking forward to getting back to Chaweng Beach, which is 3 miles long. This is where I do my morning jog at 6 am. Sure beats jogging along Candlewood Lake this time of year! This was one of the highlights of my trip last year and hope it will be this year as well. Last night I went out to dinner with Wan, the woman I met on the Chao Phraya express boat earlier in the week. We went to an outdoor restaurant in the Khao San area. Good food and great conversation. I am slowly but surely getting accostomed to eating the Thai way, which involves using the spoon to put food into your mouth ... read more