bangkok: bright lights, big city

the buddha wears prada?

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October 3rd 2016
This is how it ends. The door closes and the lock clicks on apartment 4J, 251 Seaman Avenue. We take the elevator downstairs, catch a cab to JFK, and fly away with a baby, a black cat, and three bulging suitcases of the wrong things. Though we’ve done this before, the baby is a fairly significant new wrinkle. Twenty-two hours later, we land in Bangkok, retrieve the cat and the suitcases, take a ... 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