Here are some photos from Bangkok. I have mixed feelings about Bangkok. In some ways it was fantastic - good food, great sites, locals were nice - but in other ways it was obnoxious - foreign tourists.
This was a statue at the Grand Palace - note the guy's leg on the left for scale.
I love goooold!
You can kind of see the top of somebody's head on the bottom left. The Buddha was huge, scary huge. The feet were amazing - inlaid with mother of pearl.Looking forward to hearing what people are doing for Halloween,
Matthew
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Foreign tourists (like yourself?) made the Bangkok experience obnoxious? I am confused. One of the most obnoxious things about our China trip was the fact that I couldn't speak Chinese. Which made me feel bad because Liz had to do all the work, and I was just a gawper. Oh well. There was a lot to gawp at. In thinking it all through long after the fact, I guess I am not the best traveler. Probably I am a better stayer-at-home.
Yes, like myself, only behaving as if they were on Spring break in Bangkok. Nothing says obnoxious tourist like fake dreadlocks and a favorable exchange rate....
I must admit that I didn't see many tourists with fake dreadlocks, though the exchange rate was favorable to me. I did see some Tibetan people with extraordinarily long hair wound up around their heads. And I've always been too much a fuddy duddy for the kind of Spring Break memories that you imply. I think you probably hang around a different crowd than I do.
Yeah, right, I am such a party animal and you are such a fuddy duddy. I have been to casino night in Nome, I have also heard the stories about the infamous Christmas party....
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