Bangkok, Take 1

After being in the cold and dryness of China for a month, it was a bit of a shock to get off the plane at 1 am and experience the heat and humidity of Thailand. It was a welcome feeling to start sweating again, although it didn't take long (morning time) for us to feel overwhelmed by the muggy weather. Some travel books suggest taking a day or two to acclimate, so we did our best by hanging out in some AC in our hotel and only taking short trips outside until we felt like we could handle it better.

Bangkok is amazing. The city is huge, and despite the fact that we didn't get very far from our hotel we felt like we got a taste of it. It turns out that we weren't very far from a very touristy area, Kao Sahn Road, which thankfully we only visited twice. In fact, Erin had just read an article about the tourist street right before we found it, so she had an idea of what we were seeing when we got there. If you check out the article on Slate(http://www.slate.com/id/2163104/entry/2163105/), be sure to look for the picture of the sign which we have posted below.

It seems mythical that you can get just about anything in Bangkok, but I believe the rumors to be true. As an example, there are carts along the tourist street where you can get drivers licenses and diplomas and any other number of falsified documentation. I tried to snap this photo without the guy seeing me, because I didn't want him to think that I was going to turn him in.)

(Erin's Aside: Joey keeps talking about taking a Muey Thai boxing lesson. I am not too keen on the plan -- elbows to the face are fair game -- but here is a picture of the gym he may try out.)