A week before Christmas, we headed to Bangkok for 4 days. Michael wanted "Gold Status" on Star Alliance so we flew Thai Air, and 6,000 miles later, he gets priority check-in and free upgrades on any Star Alliance airline for the next year; while I'm slumming it with "Elite Silver." He's Jerry and I'm Elaine in that Seinfeld episode on a plane. Needless to say, getting gold (aka 50,000 miles in one year) is one of my New Year's resolutions.
We arrived in Bangkok and I got to revisit Thai boxing, mango sticky rice, reclining buddhas, Singha beer, and 90 degree sunshine. While NYC was shoveling out of a blizzard, we were poolside :)
The best part of my second visit to Bangkok was taking a private longboat ride in the canals around the city for the first time. The canal water is gross, but it was a nice escape from the craziness of the city streets. We met an old man selling beers, bread, flowers, and who-knows-what-else on his boat; $20 bucks later we floated away with a little bit of everything. When we tossed bread into the water, one million fish surfaced and fought to the death for a bite (well, maybe not a million- that's what it looked like).
The neighborhoods were practically underwater. Replace streets with rivers; swap bus stops for boat stops; remove sidewalks and add piers...and you have a suburban neighborhood in Bangkok.
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