Bangkok

Sweet Lord much to catch up on!

Let's try point form:

-The flight to alaska was long, but it had nothing on the 10 1/2 hr one to taiwan. Since my Ipod/their TV was busted it was a lot of restless sleep and Lonely Planet scanning. The only good thing I'd say was the surreal beauty of the sun coming up on the american side as we outran it over the Pacific, and it doused the whole cloud ceiling in this soft pinkish glow. Lovely.

-Connected in Taiwan and unfortunately didn't have time check out it's scene, but from the sky it looks very oriental and nice. Another time perhaps.

-Got into Bangkok around noon, and after getting heavily ripped off for a taxi (30$ vs 5$) I plunkered down in the backpacker scene in Khao San rd. It's a sweaty bustling mess but my god is it fun. Everyone is selling something, there's music blaring from every corner, you can buy your giant bottle of 1$ beer and carouse the vendors for hours! If you don't melt that is, which I started to.

- I met a lovely girl from Denmark in a little restaurant off to the side and after making friends she showed me the hostel which I'm now staying in. A little more walking led us to more bottles of beer and more friends. It's almost impossible to not pop a squat and instantly have new bros, it's the best! I enjoyed my first street meal, with a deep fried scorpion as an appetizer, and proceeded to wipe my eyes with the hot pepper sitting on top the rice bed. So, in tears, I split ways with my new friends and started to walk back to the hostel. You'd think that would be the end of it but I ran into an American I chatted with in the airport, so we sat down for some 'Wodkee Reebul' (vodka red bull) and made more pals at the table next to us. Clearly the next step were some thai massages, which I enjoyed thoroughly even though I was later informed my lovely masseuse was indeed a dude. And I said 'go hard' or something to that effect.

-At this point I was viciously drunk so had to part ways. I spent the next 3 hours wandering the streets unable to find this hole in the wall hostel, asking 'yoo tee nai, yoo tee nai?' and pointing at my little room keytag. The thing about thais, i think, is they never like to say I don't know, so it's always just 'uhhh you go down, turn left then, uhh just walk a little bit' I finally found it just by happen chance and was so happy...Until I woke up sweating buckets, extreme headache and out of water. To avoid dealing with life I slept from 5:00am to 11:00 pm today, but keep in mind I'm 12:00 hours behind as well. Or that's my excuse anyways. Anyways it's 1:00am now, time for a beer and a new friend. Much love!