Bangkok, Thailand (and it's toilets)
We're here in Thailand waiting for our Bhutan visas to start, then we head over there for 5 days.
Bangkok
It's crowded here, it's noisy and smoggy and I love it. Food everywhere you turn and people are more than willing to help you out. Most of all I'm not treated as a potential source of someone else's income. It's a huge city and nobody cares about Gay and I and that's great. We spent a couple more days in Bangkok then we high-tailed it up north and spent another couple more days in a town called Ayuthya which has very old temples and is Unesco World Heritage sight. We then headed west and we're now in a place called Kunthanburi (or something like that). If anyone is familiar with story of The Bridge over the River Kwai, well this is where all that stuff went down. We went a museum dedicated to those events and I realize I know nothing about WWII. But fascinating stuff nonetheless. Today we went to the Erawon National Park, we went for a little walk and did some swimming at one of the tier in a 7 tier waterfall..quite nice. Tomorrow we have scheduled to goto a "Tiger temple" where a Bhuddist monk set uup a sanctuary for tigers and apparently you can, according to the guide, "get excited with live tigers" . We'll see what that means.
All in all things are going well. We're excited to go to Bhutan in a couple of days.
Cultural differences, for real.
When traveling in other countries you run into cultural differences. These can be classified as either "passive" or "active". Passive meaning you can either participate or not depending on how you feel. Active meaning that you have to participate because this is how things are done whether you like it or not and why can't people just use toilet paper i mean really. Ok, look, I have to get real for a second. I've been wiping my ass with my hand. Sorry, I had to get that off my chest; but it's traumatic and it's just how things are done here..you can't put toilet paper down these toliets, it's impossible, I've tried! Fortunatly I've been starting to get the hang of the whole thing and also I feel like i've really crossed some kind of line as a traveller.
Bye for now...
Bye for now...Jon
posted by Jon @ 2:49 AM
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3 Comments:
I'm going to have to put your hand through a sterilizing machine when you come home. Between Les and Andrea, I'm sure we can rig one up!
Try not to get diarrhea!
(Way too much visual information here.)
Keep 'em blogging though.
Stay safe and have fun,
Love you both,
Paula
Awesome! Finally I can relate to something on this blog. Outstanding work my brother. Let me be the first to shake your hand, give you a high five. You give new meaning to the word "handy man" or "right hand man." People may shy away from the phase, "Jon can you lend me a hand." Gay might stop saying, "Jon use your "bare hand" to open that jar of pickles." My one question to you is why didnt you just get a newspaper? Ah.. Who cares you have made me proud to be a Eckstein. (Gay welcome to the family) To you Jon I raise my poop hand and salute you.
Hey Jon. It's Mirsky. I hadn't looked at your blog in awhile so I just spent the last 30 minutes or so catching up. The trip looks unbelievable and the pictures are great. I especially love the picture from St. Arnaud from October with you representing in a very old looking Rockaway Township t-shirt, reading to two kids.
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