31 March We left Bangkok early in the morning in a minibus headed for the Cambodian border. Despite the lengthy journey, things were kept interesting inside the bus with an incident involving pickled mango (read: sticky sugary juice was all over the bus and vain attempts at cleaning it with wet wipes and trying to siphon the juice from the pickled mango bag into a yogurt container were disasters) and the discovery that thin boxed breadsticks advertising themselves as having a sweet corn flavor do, in fact, taste EXACTLY like sweet corn, minus the butter running down one's chin. We arrived at the border in time for lunch, so we ate lunch. Naturally it was Pad Thai. We walked across the border, stopping first at the Thai immigration office to check out, then wandering no-man's land
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