by mcgarveysan | Feb 11, 2020 | Bangkok, Destinations, Let's Eat!, SE Asia, Thailand
What’s not to love about cheap street food, humidity and carnival barkers? Not much! We walked from our hotel to the BTS Skytrain station S7, Krung Thon Buri and rode to station S6, Saphan Taksin. We had already purchased our BTS metro cards, so we sailed...
by mcgarveysan | Feb 9, 2020 | Bangkok, Destinations, SE Asia, Thailand
Wat Pho and the Reclining Buddha are spectacular! We’ve spent a couple days touring Wats now. It’s definitely sensory overload. So beautiful and intricately detailed. It’s a little overwhelming, not to mention so stinking hot. We keep saying we’re getting up early....
by mcgarveysan | Feb 5, 2020 | Bangkok, Destinations, Let's Eat!, SE Asia, Thailand
Bangkok by night is something to see! All the temples are lit up and the streets are crowded with people. We’re slowly easing into this trip. “Slowly” being the key word. We were chatting about this transition the other day; Last year we worked right...
by mcgarveysan | Feb 5, 2020 | Bangkok, Destinations, Let's Eat!, SE Asia, Thailand
Noelle here: It’s been a relaxing week. Napping, reading, wandering around our neighborhood. I’ve felt emotionally and physically drained, plus recovering from a cold that swept through our family back home. So the down time has been good. Steve relaxing on the...
by mcgarveysan | Feb 3, 2020 | Bangkok, Destinations, Let's Eat!, SE Asia, Thailand
Noelle here: Two great things happened yesterday as we made our way to the Chatuchak Weekend Market! First and maybe most significant is that we took the BTS Skytrain for the first time. It was pretty easy and now we know we can go wherever we want! The second great...