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Archive for December, 2010

Wed
29
Dec '10

Bangkok Cough

A little over a year ago I was getting sick every 3 weeks or so.  It was during the “flu” season, so I initially didn’t think much about it.  But then it kept happening over and over again.  I ended up going to a pulmonologist who diagnosed me with mild asthma.  With a daily use [...]

Wed
29
Dec '10

Ayuthaya

We took a day trip up to Ayuthaya from Bangkok.  The tour took us up by bus and returned to Bangkok boat down the Chao Phraya river.  While I highly recommend visiting  Ayuthaya, I don’t recommend this day trip.  Because the tour had to accommodate a 2 hour lunch cruise, we only got to see [...]

Sun
26
Dec '10

Merry Christmas

Yeah, I know, one day late, but I was busy riding scooters on Koh Chang yesterday.  We rode all the way to Long Beach on the east end of the island. We rented two scooters, a Yamaha Mio (the white one) and a Honda Click (the black one).  They both had about 10,000 Km on [...]

Mon
20
Dec '10

Hua Hin

Since I was waiting for my friend Karl to arrive from the USA, I decided to take a break from Bangkok and spend the weekend at the beach.  Hua Hin is about 2 and a half hours from Bangkok, and I’d never been before, so that seemed like the place. Hua Hin is one of [...]

Sat
18
Dec '10

Scooter Classic Party No. 1

I saw this on thaiscooter.com, and decided to check it out. I posted a question using Google translate, so I could write in, hopefully, good enough Thai to be understood.  It did, I got a post back with the address and the time of the event. I couldn’t find the address in Google maps, so [...]