The picture is of the ridiculous hotel we are staying in. Made it to Bangkok! After delays galore, and the longest flights of my life. I am half here. I say half because I am staying at the airport hotel because entrance to downtown is a bit dicey in the middle of the night! On the plane from San Francisco to Tokyo we had no televisions. Buy from Tokyo to Bangkok, we had televisions and could play nintendo. It was glorious. I ate 7 meals today, and 5 of them were...

Today we went to Royal Palace and Wat Phra Kaew! It was so sweaty. As in sweat dripping down face and body. Into eyes. Deadly. And we were trapped in temples and stone pathways. It was sick. And beautiful.

First day of Bangkok, what an adventure. We taxied from the hotel to downtown because part of the train was closed. All trip advisories tell you to not ride on the tuk tuks because they rip you off, but we met someone named Bill and had a great day. We went to see some cool monuments and went around the downtown area. We met an American named Mark who travelled the world and obviously gave us many tips. We then went for a street dinner and went to a ping pong sho...