Michelle and Brent

Tuesday February 19, 2008 3pm
We are still here in Bangkok, but not for much longer.
We leave tonight on the night train to Chang Mai, which is exciting for us as we are getting a little tired of this city, specifically our filthy street. It is always full of travellers, hawkers, food stalls, and garbage (quite smelly).
We have made some progress on the planning of the rest of our trip. Today we paid the deposit for the Gibbons Experience, which was nothing compared to the money we just spent on our plane tickets to India! We are leaving on March 5th from Bangkok at 2:40am, and arriving in New Delhi sometime around 7am. Great news. No need for a guest house/hostel that night, as the airport will serve just fine! The cost of this plane ride does not really break the bank, however it just seems like a lot compared to what we have been spending in this very inexpensive part of the world.
We sent home a package yesterday after spending the weekend shopping our brains out at the market. From the approximately 15,000 stalls, while weaving through hoards of people, I managed to buy 6 t-shirts (for about $25-30 total) and Michelle got a bag, a dress, a pair of shorts and a couple shirts. Along with some of the purchases, we also sent home some things we were not using very much, but did not want to throw out (or give away/leave behind).

Our train leaves tonight at 10, so we are just trying to kill some time.

We will keep you all posted.

Brent