Bangkok: the Tourist Trap
December 10th 2006 I arrived in Bangkok where Mathew - such a good brother - dutifully waited for me in the airport. Safe at last with my favorite traveling knight, I waited while Mathew negotiated rates with the cab drivers.
"The place we're staying at is a real shit-hole" Mathew kept warning me. "But it has A/C." I told him it was fine, but as I arrived, I kept my mouth shut. There was a sign, "Don't flush
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