Sunday, June 04, 2006

Good to be back in Bangkok

Here are a few of the pictures that Lorien mentioned. Hopefully they're shrunk down small enough to not be painful online (which is probably more of a problem from here than home). We'll eventually post all of the original high resolution pics on our website.

Landing in a familiar place was pleasant. And it only took us about 10 minutes out of the airport building before we found ourselves engaged in a conversation with someone about Berkeley Bowl. (A pair of Americans from Colorado who we split a cab ride with, one of them had been an undergrad at Berkeley). It really does feel like a small world sometimes.

It's pretty hot here, and humid too, but not nearly as bad as I had thought it might be. Both days it's rained a bit in the afternoon, which cools things down somewhat.

As Lorien mentioned, it's peak fruit season for many things now, which we really like. We've had rambutans, lychees, mangoes, custard apple, mangosteen, durian, and a few things that we're not quite sure what they were. Kind of like we're working our way around the table names from the wedding (in case you didn't get the theme). Basically we're spending much of our time so far eating, wandering around aimlessly, and getting massages. Which is pretty much according to plan.

Here's shot from the one somewhat touristy spot we've been to so far, the reclining Buddha at Wat Pho. It's BIG, this picture can't even show all of it. The best thing about this Wat is that it's also home to a well known Thai massage school, which means that you can also get a massage
there!

I was going to post a few more pics, but now this machine doesn't want to seem to be able to recognize the SD to USB adapter that I bought. Hopefully it's just Windows being stupid and not that the brand new adapter is flaking out.

That's about all for now. We take an overnight train down south tonite, and then a boat tomorrow morning to Kho Tao, for some scuba diving. We're not really sure of our precise schedule after that, but it's probably heading further south across the border into Malaysia.

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