We arrived in the northern and more relaxing city of Chiang Mai yesterday afternoon after spending 17 hours on an overnight train fortunately sharing a car with Sophie and Johan, a Swedish couple that were very cool and had good stories of travel to swap. Jen is already experiencing Buddha's revenge so out come the antibiotics.
For the last week now we spent a night in Los Angeles then two days in aircraft and airports. We had a good 14 hour flight on a China Eastern Airlines A340 where I liberated a sweet blanket and drank lots of free wine. Arrival in Bangkok was at about 2:00 AM and we finally put head to pillow at about 5:00 AM after finding a guesthouse and going on a walk for some street noodles. The following couple of days were spent exploring Bangkok. We bought train tickets to Chiang Mai, visited the grand palace of King Rama IX that houses the Thai famous Emerald (actually Jade) Buddha, walked around the local Chinatown area where I bought a cheap Casio watch and the very serious shop owner gave me a warranty card with his official stamp of approval and a microfiber wiping cloth to keep it nice and clean.
Bangkok is dirty and smelly as ever but still really fun to explore and eat great food.
More to come on the Chiang Mai area.
You should make it a goal to take a picture with at least one native wearing an American shirt in every country you go to.
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