view of the outdoor restaurant "ground floor"

First Arrival

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December 11th 2010
These photos are from the first two days in Bangkok, mid-May 2010. (Apologies for the paltry-crappy-fuzzy pictures, I didn't yet realize my camera was on its last legs.) We finally managed to escape the gigantic Suvarnapbumpi Airport (ha! forgot how to spell it exactly but it's basically pronounced "soovannaboom") at around noon -- about 36 hours (counting the time change) after we left San Fr ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more