Greetings from Bangkok

[Circuits]

Couldn't get to ar15.com from over here, but I was able to cruise co-ar15.com at least. Wheels up to come back home in about 12 - but I figured I had to post from the other side of the world at least once...

[Irving]

Please have a safe flight home. I should have been asleep about 6 hours ago myself. See you on this side of the world soon.

[pickenup]

They have computers over there? :eek:

Stay safe.

[ChunkyMonkey]

This explains the CO-AR15.COM sticker on one of the Red protesters' barricades!

[kwando]

be careful out there... the protesting is going crazy over there!

my wife is from Thailand and it is a beautiful place. eat any crazy wild food yet? bee larva? ants?

[theGinsue]

Well, by now you are surely on your way home. I can only imagine what it's like for the citizens of Bangkok right now. The worse thing I could imagine is getting caught between the protestors and the government troops. Apparently that exact thing has happened to many folks, including some journalists.

You would think that one day journalists would wake up and realize that they are NOT a protected class.

[sniper7]

Have a good flight back!

[SA Friday]

[ROFL1] You said Bangkok...

[theGinsue]

Now I'm rolling! [ROFL3]

I NEVER would have expected that from YOU Friday!

[Circuits]

Didn't go too hog wild on the food, since I've got diabetes, so have to take it easy on noodles and bread. A real pity, since I dig me some spicy pad thai.

For those of you who know the city, we hung out and toured mostly in the old city around chinatown (mostly rattanakosin), and avoided the tourist and shopping areas being occupied by the protesters. By doing so, we had no trouble, other than being some of the few tourists around in a large city, which tended to concentrate the scam artists and tuk-tuk drivers all around us.

I was changing clothes and showering three times a day, and drinking water bottles as fast as we could clean out 7-11 for more. It's SERIOUSLY HOT and very humid there. If I'd had more time on the ground, my body would probably have adjusted and not sweat so profusely any longer, but there wasn't enough time for that to happen.

Bangkok has to have more temples per square mile than any other city in the world - mostly buddhist.

[ChunkyMonkey]

Did ya get scammed on the free the birds thing in any of the temples?

[Circuits]

Did ya get scammed on the free the birds thing in any of the temples?

No, but all the temples were closed when we went by (Buddhist holiday, special ceremony, etc), according to the tuk tuk drivers and their shills outside. But we were so special they opened up just for us by the time we walked to the main entrance(s).