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 [...]
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 [...]
OK, when I first checked in, I was maybe a bit harsh, but I had the distinct feeling I was going to spend the night in a “short time” hotel. Not so at all. Despite the drab and depressing decor, It was clean, the only noise was street noise, I didn’t wake up with bed [...]
Since my co-workers were super generous and gave me some spending money at my going away party, I decided to splurge a little. Splurging is relative–it was $35 a night. I stayed at the Baan Waree hotel. I read about the hotel in a New York Times article and as thrilled by the concept. The [...]
I’m in Terminal 4 of Phoenix Sky Harbor airport, enjoying the free wireless before my flight. It takes off at 9:50 am and my final flight will land in Bangkok almost exactly 24 hours later. That’s the worst part of going to Southeast Asia–the marathon of transit it takes to get there. But in my [...]
