BOARDING!!!
Trip Start
May 18, 2008
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Trip End
Jun 16, 2008
Bangkok,
Thailand
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
hungover from DS wedding. His mom: "I gave Jack Nicholson a blowjob he'll never forget. Want his #?." Passed out at JFK on sole possession for this trip - my backpack - an illustrious old thing that has traveled with different explorers through Africa, Europe and soon Asia. Marveled at adorable well-behaved little Japanese girl sitting next to me on flight.
monday
check out fellow backpackers on layover in japan. too tired to socialize. arrive bangkok midnight. yay new passport stamp! EP picks me up, he forgets to ask cab turn on meter, we get scammed - the first of many. jetlagged, i watch bloomberg for hours. am COMPLETELY caught up in financial news.
tuesday
early bus to damnoen saduk (floating market). the ride out is more interesting - catching a glimpse of "real" life. the locals make fun of us in the market - probably about how cheap we are! odd to see enormous BURBERRY window display in the bangkok megamall just behind incense burning temple on street corner. capitalist forces, aka the mall, co-opted the name of the temple. will the origin cease to exist one day? night bus to chiang mai, in northern thailand. wrap my body around my belongings - highway robbers won't be getting a single piece of my crap! - wake up to sunrise over the mountains as it transforms from a deep cobalt to pink.
