Time to get you caught up as we have found a way to use our laptop here in Thailand. We started our trip last Friday, Nov. 30, 2008, the day after Thanksgiving....
Thailand is under siege with civil unrest. After a 14 hour flight to Taipai, Taiwan, we change plans to avoid Bangkok Airport. We avoid the conflict completely with a flight to Kuala Lumpur (KL) Malayasia.
Dec. 1, we are now a day ahead of all of you (exactly 14 hours), so it’s our Monday morning and Sunday night football just came on at home. We have breakfast with our friends Stevo and Debbie and decide to check out downtown KL. We catch a 20 minute train ride and meet a fellow American on the train, an ex pat is what they call themselves. He has been trying to get to the USA, but because of the problems in Thailand, also had to come to KL to get there. He lives in Cambodia, running a non profit school educating the natives, and for cash, works as a back country ski guide at Snowbird, Utah. He was so interesting, so we ended up hanging with him all day …so now it’s a party of 5.
KL is a mixture of the old and the new with Hindu and Chinese Temples, colonial stucco buildings, and steel modern sky scrapers.
We went to the markets with lots of western (name brand items like purses and shoes) and eastern goods(statues, batiques, wood carvings). We bought a nice back pack and a cell phone. Prices are about 1/4th of what we would have paid back home…and we here Thailand is even less. Time will tell.
Heading out to dinner with the group at the fancy hotel we are staying at tonight (right near the airport) We have a 7 AM flight tomorrow. So far…pretty interesting culture and we are soaking it all in. People are nice and friendly and so far, all speak English..
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