I'm pretty sure that hilarity and randomness follow me wherever I go. Which I secretly kind of like. I like to start all my trips out with some sort of mishap before I even get on an airplane. I figure why not just get it out of the way as soon a possible. Air china does not exist at the seatac airport, nor should it. Needless to say it's offiliated with United, which we found out on our second go around the airport terminal departure area. Once we got on air china in San Fran, it became quite clear what was in store for us. It's a funny airline, and I do not mean that in a comical way.
I am starting my travels with my sweet friend Debbie, known to others as Hot Deb. Which is so true. She is strong and fiery and gets what she wants. This will be a good travel buddy for me, like just now I wanted another glass of wine and she made it happen. I like her. The flight was long but I mostly slept. 12 hours later we arrived at the Bejiing airport, which in my mind I thought would be bustling and crowded. Nope, It was deserted and freezing. Such a weird set-up there and lots of security and seriousness. On to another flight to Bangkok, which was about 4 or 5 hours. I pretty much slept the entire way. I was thankful for that. It was a long day of travel, an entire day in fact and once we arrived it was about 1 Am. Deb's bag was missing (of course) no surprise there. Note to self do not fly Air China. So after figuring out that it would arrive the next day, we got ourselves into a cab and headed to Khosan Road. Khosan road is known for being a backpackers Mecca. And boy was it ever. Full of people, and shopping, and food, and things you just don't expect. It was the perfect place to start.
I love getting into a cab in a new place, city, country and looking out the windows to see it for the first time. We got dropped off in front of some hostels/hotels. We had an idea of where we were staying, but nothing had been booked yet. Debbie has been here several times and knows her way around quite well. I will just give you some highlights of the 4 places we checked out, before finally getting a nice room.
*Little Thai woman takes us to see a room: Stomps on some kind of rat tail which surrys under the door across from the room she is showing us. Tail is detached from critter, and she scoops up tail with some trash and tells us not to worry. (we decided not to stay there)
*Heading down some dark ally to find a place and seeing a mangy cat chasing a cockroach
*And just for future reference the pictures do not look like the actual rooms.
It was an adventure and we had been here less than an hour. We found a nice place with a pool, so necessary it is hot here! This city really never stops, so we ventured out to check it out and get some food. So busy and noisy and colorful and friendly. I was immediately drawn to it. My first meal was Phad Thai....DELICIOUS! Finally after a hilarious night of meeting travelers; including the Canadian that had my name tattooed on his chest, and walking this wild street, around 7 am we got some sleep.
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