This year has been filled with business trips, mainly to Pattaya for some reason. Just looking back on some photos from May.
Category: Exploits
Max is stuck waiting on a delayed flight
It’s taking him more than a day and a half to get back home due to multiple Delta delays. Death by boredom, the opposite of Thai transportation!
Back in the Kham
We sent Max off today with a good family friend who’s also living in the same area of the Pacific Northwest. It was great having him back for a month and a half after such a long time. I’m straight back into the thick of it here. but I’ll be posting memories from his visit for a while.
The Dogs of Lad Prao
For as long as we’ve been visiting Nam’s auntie and uncle on Lad Prao 33, there have been a huge pack of dogs running the middle area of the street. During the day, they lounge around in the heat and disappear through holes in nearby gates, but at night, they run around free. It is scary walking there alone at night. The neighbors all complain about the danger and the shits left all over the place, to no avail… We’ve been going and staying there for decades, so we have probably seen several generations of this wild pack.
Got back from Koh Chang
I took Max along on a (university business) road trip with my two pals. It was epic.
Kalanbatu Reggae Bar at Khao San
Actually on Soi Rambuttri.
We walked by after dinner, Taro knew the owner and the band. He unslung his travel guitar and immediately hopped in. Music ensued. I posted a much longer vid as a livestream on FB: T jamming at Kalanbatu on Khao San Road
Eagle’s Nest
I cannot bear to use the actual spelling of the bar’s name, it just bothers me. There’s no denying they have one of the best views of Wat Arun at night, though. This is in the neighborhood of Wat Po, the famous massage school temple, just across the river.
The Green VIP Party Bus
We just came back from a back-to-back four day trip to Pattaya and 8 day trip to Japan. I will try and document some of it here. The Pattaya trip was a 40-person corporate trip for my cousin’s company in Japan that Nam and I organized; it turned out well. It all started out with a double-decker bus we chartered to pick up the group at BKK. It was a pretty awesome setup and the driver, Noi, was very cool.
Back Home Again
Nam and I went on a nice trip to pick up Mina in WA and for Nam to see Max after four years of COVID lockdown/US visa processing. The last long leg of our trip saw us dropped this bus stop in between the two sides of Maha Sarakham city at dawn.
As it turns out, we aren’t moving back to the states just now.
Mina has come back to Thailand; she missed her friends here.
I have many tales to tell.
Gunmetal Triton
Nam and I took a nice trip to Bangkok over the weekend to pick up my new ride. Her older sister, Nok, made the purchase and handled all the transfer paperwork before we got there.
More to follow.