The city of Bangkok has something different and bizarre to offer in every place you look.  We stumbled by a Shell gas station, as typical looking as any one you would see in North America or other parts of the world.  It had two rows of pumps, an overhead roof and a main building where [...]

We have developed a love/hate relationship with this city. We were told that Bangkok is a great place to use as a base for traveling. It truly is. We ended up coming back to Bangkok six different times. Sometimes we stayed for a few days in between traveling to other places. Other times it was [...]

Shop Until You Drop If the shopaholics want somewhere to go, Thailand, or Bangkok in general is your place. You can shop until you drop here literally. You just might drop in the heat. Jack and I have never sweat so much, not anywhere in Africa had we experienced heat like this. I think it [...]

Grand Palace We spent the better part of a day sightseeing at what is called the Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaeo, or Temple of the Emerald Buddha. The Grand Palace used to be the residence of the Thai Royal Family, but is now only used for formal events. We saw many different temples ornately [...]

Tuk Tuks Designed So You Can’t See? This is really annoying when you are taking one of the tuk tuks to get you around the city. You can’t see a damn thing!!! I think this design is intentional so you don’t know where they are taking you. The Taxi Game Let’s talk about what we [...]

Our First Thai Massage We went back to the Royal Hotel after some site seeing.  It was now about midnight, but because of the time change our body clocks were all messed up. We had slept until almost 2pm in the day and now we were not tired at all. We decided to indulge in [...]

Bangkok in a nutshell…… Crazy traffic, tons of motorbikes and tuk tuks weaving in amongst the cars. People everywhere, street vendors selling everything imaginable from unidentifiable food to pajamas. There is music blaring, all kinds of smells and cats and dogs and the occasional rat scurrying about. Tucked away alleys have all kinds of bizarre [...]