Bangkok Traffic is Insane!

How odd, roads full of idiling cars going nowhere fast. Red lights to the horizon! The downtown parking lot Each morning it wakes me up, as its foul smell penetrates the hotel I’m staying in. I don’t really know how the street-side vendors survive, for the carbon monoxide fumes from…

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Don’t Mess With the King of Thailand

You know your in Thailand when you see HM Bhumibol Adulyadej everywhere A younger, dapper King Pretty paintings in Bangkok traffic Seventy-two years of style Yesterday, in making my first Thailand-specific weekly PhotoJournal entry, I went looking for a Thai flag GIF. I wanted to put the flag of Thailand…

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Not For the Timid, Motorcycle Taxis Are Fast!

Hold on to that plastic helmet, Motorcycle Taxis are wild! Get that suit outta my way! Gentlemen, start your engines! No, Mom, I swear this isn’t me! Yes, even the Fuzz! So you are in Thailand’s capital city, dreading the awful traffic, and unsure of where the buses or limited…

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Christmas Morning on a Moped

Vientiane is a great place to wake up on Christmas morning That ain’t no Lao Santa I wonder if they met at Samlo Making friends… Was I that drunk? Whenever I’m faced with an early morning departure, I usually try to stay up all night partying, intending on sleeping when…

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Lao Money Comes in Bag or Bucket Size

The Lao kip can be used as wallpaper Good use for a ton of kip Laos uses money called the ‘kip,’ and they sure use a lot of it. Like Russia, before its re-denomination in 1998, there are thousands of kip to the dollar, 7,600 to be exact. When I…

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