December 2011
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a samut prakan christmas: part two
day two in samut prakan began with some afternoon adventures to the big c supermarket. we had to purchase a few items to bring to the ugly sweater christmas dinner. first on the checklist was the ugly sweater. i ended up buying a very small dark blue sweater with two teddy bears kissing. we then grabbed a cake, a bottle of wine, and some last-minute secret santa gifts.
the dinner was at sara...
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a samut prakan christmas: part one
ever since i bought my motorcycle, i have been dreaming about taking it for a trip somewhere. i have had visions of myself cruising up or down sukhumvit road (route 3), which connects bangkok to the southern city of trat. luckily for me, zach and meghan invited me over to their house, in the samut prakan province, for christmas weekend.
samut prakan is just south of bangkok and, after...
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an old video that takes me back home.
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train ride
as train number 167 slowly departs from hua lamphong station, i realize that i have nearly completed the first year since i was diagnosed with an infection that nearly took half of my sight. it was that one morning when things got blurry. i woke up with tears of fear, after i could not wash away the reality of a nightmare. the doctors gave me a mixed bag of stinging medicines and so began that...
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phu chi fa timelapse. (disappointed with a lot of silly mistakes)
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phu chi fa
i woke up first the next morning, like usual, and chose to explore on my own. i walked along the empty sunday sidewalks and through a different deserted night market. our plan was to eventually head east to phu chi fa, a very popular mountain destination for both thais and tourists. phu chi fa is popular essentially because it is a point high enough where you are in between the clouds. at sunrise...
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chiang rai city
this weekend we got back to our traveling routine and definitely took advantage of our long weekend. after school on friday, we hopped on an overnight bus towards the northern province of chiang rai. the bus was nice, compared to my past experiences on overnight buses in both bolivia and argentina. the seats reclined almost completely horizontal and had built-in lower back massages. there was also...