KaZantip 2011: Black Sea Paradise
Warning: This post contains a few NSFW photos. View only in good company 🙂 The Republic of KaZantip, the legendary Eastern European Shangri La of parties, lasts for just one month a year in a […]
Peder and I left our pousada in Trancoso and started out for our day’s 30 km walk at around 11am. The plan was to follow the coast all the way to Arraial d’Ajuda, a neighboring […]
Warning This post contains some graphic images. If blood makes you queasy, you may want to skip it. I’ve mentioned a few times how, although I do travel mostly without plans, I also do so […]
The Mega Trip Part 9 (The Great Wall)
With the land-based portion of my adventure through China nearly over, I realized that I was still missing a significant piece of what I wanted to see before returning to Japan. Kung Fu. So, after […]
On December 20th of 2006, I received an e-mail from my dad. It contained this Powerpoint file. The forwarding messages all included such phrases as: “I CANT EVEN LOOK AT THE PICTURES WITHOUT GETTING DIZZY!!” […]
At long last, I made it to Petra. Petra is a place that’s intrigued me since before I even knew its name – since I first saw Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade as a […]
Herb and I had now been in Bangkok for a full five days, but had yet to spend even a minute on any “proper” tourism. Bangkok’s fabulous nightlife is just far too addicting.
But after finally taking it easy enough on Tuesday to awake while the clock still said “AM,” we figured it was the perfect day to knock off a few of the big city’s must-see sights.
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The day after our epic boat-and-jetski experience, I awoke feeling hopelessly sick. Apparently the nonstop partying and lack of sleep had finally caught up with me.
…Or had it?
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A few posts ago I mentioned how Stefan, an old friend from Kyoto and current Bangkok socialite, was more or less responsible for the fantastic time Herb and I had in the big city – thanks to his extensive personal connections and generous willingness to share them.
Time for a concrete example.
Remember Anders, the very-tall-guy who appeared towering over me in one of the Khao San photos? Well as it would happen, Anders and his friend Andy – two Swedish expats who’ve been living in Ko Tao for the better part of a decade – are at this very moment working hard to wrap up an exiting new business venture:
They’re building a yacht. A 4-storey 8-bedroom luxury party yacht.
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Although Herb and I were more than satisfied with the location, size, amenities, and comfort of the rooms at Swan Inn, there was just one feature that we did not find to our liking.
Tiny cockroaches.
I’d seen one or two in my room, but apparently Herb had woken up several times over the course of the night to find that a few of the little critters had nestled themselves up about three inches from his face. Not cool. So we decided to pack up and relocate to another spot Peder had recommended directly across the street: Happy Inn.
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Because Herb had arrived in Bangkok a full 24 hours before me, he was nice enough to go out and pick up a local SIM card for my phone. However, we later learned that by signing up with TrueMove – Thailand’s biggest mobile carrier – it’s possible to get a no-commitment 3G data plan with unlimited usage (plus 300 voice minutes) for only $20/month. Now that’s what I call a deal! Into the trash you go, $2 voice-only SIM from 7-11 🙂
So after sufficiently catching up on sleep from the previous late night out (we got to bed somewhere around 6am), we walked straight over to Siam Square, site of the nearest TrueMove retail store. Minutes later we were browsing on a lightning-fast connection even better than AT&T back home – with full bars of coverage everywhere in the city.
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