Among things:
- There is nothing free in Bangkok and if it's really cheap there is some sort of catch like the driver will take you to his friends tux shop and try and fit you for a "chep chep soot." The driver then gets 10 baht (approximately 30 cents) for this favor. How nice.
- You can buy pretty much anything in Bangkok for a fraction of the price in the US, thing is in the tourist area you're still getting over charged even though for you it's a good price.
- The toilets are called squatters. Self explanatory. The bathrooms are also paperless except in the tourist areas. I have managed to find my kind of "regular" bathrooms thus far, but I imagine soon in the more rural areas Ill have to make do with the hole in the ground and the bucket of water for "flushing." More to come on that... or maybe not. (If you don't hear from me assume I figured it out).
- Driving. Scooters (and these scooters move), tuk-tuks (Oh and Wells, pronounced toook-toook, not tuck-tuck, which is what you wnat a lady boy to do to you... so I hope you didnt get a lot of use out of that) and windowless busses so that the passengers can get a face full of grim. Different from driving in the US though... the general rule of thumb is haul ass and only worry about whats infront of you.
- Lady boys. There are a ton of attractive women in Thailand... only they're not women. You can take one home for only 8 baht....
- You can drink beer and smoke butts anywhere ... and pretty much in general do whatever you want. Hey-o!
Showing up in Bangkok and dealing with the city, the jet lag, all of the "salesmen," the diesel smoke, all the people, the total change in diet and whatever it is that's different in the beer that makes you feel like ass the next day, can make you pretty sick of Bangkok, so we went to the beach.
Down in Phuket now... gorgeous. We have been giving ourselves self-guided tours/getting very very lost via scooter. Dope.
More later...
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