I finally made it home!
Trip Start
Mar 06, 2005
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Trip End
May 27, 2005
Bangkok,
Thailand
Friday, May 6, 2005
Getting off the plane, the heat hit me in the face like a hammer. A hot hammer. My first thought was, "I left behind the perfect weather of Buenos Aires for THIS?" But it took me only about five minutes to be reminded of the compensation for the hot weather: Even hotter females! Ha! And here they smile at me and talk to me too. In any case, home is home - and that's where I am now, and it feels good to sleep in my own bed (admittedly at all the wrong times for now: Today I slept from 7:30 a.m. until noon and then again from six-thirty in the evening until nine-thirty, which means that I probably won't go to bed tonight again.) But another good thing about Bangkok is that it doesn't matter what time it is. Here, it is possible to do everything at 4 in the morning that you can do at 4 in the afternoon
Bangkok storm brewing outside my window
. (Well, just about everything. You can't go to the bank at 4 a.m. But now that I think about it, you can't go to the bank at 4 in the afternoon either, so there you are.)Anyway, my family and friends, I'll be ending this trip with this message. I want to thank you all one last time for being with me. I mean it when I say that I would not have been able to hold out for so long if I had been alone. Thanks especially to those of you who were in regular contact with me during the trip: Donna in Baton Rouge, Brankica in London, Alain in Paris, Massi in Toronto, Helmy in Bangkok, Marco in Atlanta, and Tony in Bangkok, Malta and London.
I hope that my journal has inspired some of you to keep an online journal of your next trip - and that you'll put me on your mailing list. I look forward to reading of your travels in the comfort of my home - while you're out there exploring the world.
And finally, let me mention now that I've already started planning the next big trip, which will start a year from now. (I won't tell you now where I plan to go - it will be a surprise. Just a hint, though: It's somewhere I've never been!) I might also make a few minor trips in the meantime - which I might or might not document on this website. We'll see.
Okay, thanks again everybody, and don't wait for the next trip before you write again!
