We've been in Thailand now for over a week, so far in Bangkok, Sukothai, and currently we are in northern Thailand - in Chiang Mai, the 2nd largest city in the country. Sukothai was such a small town that the only transport option for us to get to Chiang Mai was a 2nd class "air-conditioned" (not really) crowded bus. It took almost six hours on a very bumpy road. The person's seat in front of me was broken so when he fell asleep his seat was just about in my lap for a long period of time....we did get a photo of this and Marc took a movie as well, but while watching the movie last night and laughing about it, he deleted it by mistake.
After two months of travelling and some decidedly rough-around-the-edges lodging, we were very happy to get to our hotel here and discover that it was a large western hotel with a fantastic corner room for us, views of the city, and a luxury swimming pool. We ordered room service and champagne to toast the Red Sox victory and our personal victory of finally getting off that bus. In Bangkok we stayed at a smaller, unique, peaceful lodge more to our style, but we were in the right state of mind to see the room service menu and robe/slippers etc.! The hotel is in the karaoke bar district, which is pretty hilarious late at night... you can hear the sounds just walking down the street.
We have taken to telling most of the taxi drivers and tuk-tuk drivers who ask where we are from that we are from Croatia. We've found this is generally easier than the truth and everyone knows Croatian football (soccer) here.
We'll try to get Thailand pictures up on the web soon. Apologies all around for being such bad bloggers - we have been much more faithful in keeping a photo diary of sorts (by captioning a lot of the photos) here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/marcjacobson
Happy Halloween and Bostonians enjoy the Sox parade for us!
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I forgot you had a blog and have been just following your photos....hope all is well!!!!
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