03.21.06
Last Day in Bangkok… for real this time
3/21/06 8:35 PM, Bangkok
OK so as it turns out the 17th was not my last day in Bangkok, but tonight and tomorrow hardly count. My hotel is right by the airport, which puts it smack in the middle of nowhere. If I were to walk out the front door I would be able to walk to a highway and not a whole lot of anything else. Guess this building and I will become acquainted tomorrow. There is a small restaurant, a beauty salon and two computers by reception that adversities internet connections for 100 Baht / 15 minutes (it is usually 1 to 2 baht a minute with a ten or twenty minute minimum). Tomorrow I will see if I can borrow a network cable long enough to post some travel log updates and send/receive emails.
My room is huge, I mean freaking huge in all directions (height, width and length), has a comfortable bed and not a whole hell of a lot more. The view out the window is of a wall (keeping the drapes closed), the TV is not cable (i.e. only one news channel not in Thai) and the furnishings are pretty minimal, but hey it’s a place to wait for my next flight and seems pretty comfortable for that. I am very glad that I brought a couple of books and some movies and TV shows on DVD, I expect to make good use of them tomorrow. I have pre-loaded firefox pages with tab after tab of news items to read offline. I also plan on sleeping as much as I can.
I just went to brush my teeth and a Samui Cockroach walked onto my hand. God I hope there aren’t any more of those suprises waiting in my luggage. I also tried to take a picture of the room to illustrate what I mea with huge and the batteries I bought in Pattaya died. I had meant to buy another set but forgot while I was in Samui.