Yesterday’s expenses:
Flat in Bangkok Free
Breakfast Noodles $1
Watermelon snack $0.20
1 hour Thai Massage $6
Cab ride $1.5
Second 1 hour massage $6
Dinner $3
4 drinks in the night $4
Midnight Chicken shish cabob $0.3
Cab Home $1.5
Total $23.5
This is Thailand
Thailand has several weapons grade dichotomies. The first is how rich of a life style their visitors can live whilst they live such poverty. Well, not completely. Poverty of happiness can be experienced by the multi millionaire. In this respect, Thai people are thick as thieves.
I’m a little overwhelmed with how cool this place is, so it’s a challenge to stay on any one topic. I drank a can of chrysanthemum juice from a Seven Eleven and it was like drinking a flower. That old Thai lady giving me the massage had the strongest hands I had ever seen! I don’t feel like I am sweating, but I have wet spots all over. That kid just beat a grown man in a thumb war for a bet of $3. Is that cell phone plan really 1 bhat a minute (35 bhat in a dollar)? “Dude, you just bit a piece of fat.” “I know and it tasted great.” Wait you mean that we can get fake IDs that make us young again?
Ummm, I need to do a little sorting out. I promise the next post will be about slumdog opulence.