Trials and tribulations of a first time traveler When first arriving to another country you have to assume that not everything is going to go smoothly no matter how much you try. Then again if you don’t try very hard your chances increase. The first of many hick-ups upon my arrival in Bangkok was my lack of attention to detail. The night prior I mapped out our course for when we got off the plane. It looked something like this, take taxi to train station, sleep somewhere, get on train next day. As we sat in the back seat of the taxi repeating the word “train” over and over to the driver who had no idea what we were saying, I was kicking myself for not writing down the name of the train station. Or for
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