Jon and I were beaten up today by a couple of female prisoners – for only 180 baht ($6). Yes, we went to a women’s prison/ correctional institution for a full-hour Thai massage by prisoners who were in vocational training. It was recommended by Lonely Planet, which also mapped out a walking guide of Chiang [...]
Entries from December 2008
December 29, 2008
On My Itinerary: Wat’s Happening in Bangkok
Ah, Bangkok. It was a long journey that lasted more than 24 hours door-to-door, felt like more than 24 hours, and at one point in the flight from JFK to Tokyo I felt like a prisoner belted to my middle seat forced to watch terrible movies like “How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days”. [...]
December 26, 2008
On My Itinerary: Thailand!
Well dear readers, I’m putting on my second travel hat of the week (the first was a nice warm yellow fleece one for the freezing cold weather in New York) and we’re headed off to Thailand tomorrow morning! We will be on a 14 1/2 hour flight to Tokyo, with a nice two-hour layover where [...]
December 25, 2008
Merry Christmas from My Travel Hats
(Photo taken Christmas Eve, 2008. There’s a Travelpro luggage set from our wedding registry in there for us! Thailand, here we come – in style!)
December 24, 2008
Cool Tools: FlightStats.com
Having a white Christmas comes at the expense of many others trying to get home for the holidays. Holiday travel is required to be tumultuous that TV stations always dispatch at least one satellite truck and one low struggling TV reporter, forced to work over the holidays, to the airport to find irked travelers to [...]
December 23, 2008
On My Itinerary: Home for the Holidays (New York)
Destination: Westchester, N.Y. The fun part about driving along the east coast is the speed at which one flies through each state, which never happens when driving along the west coast because you’re always in California. And with our new acquisition of the EZPass, we also skip right through each toll, which are frequent, particularly [...]
December 21, 2008
Happy Hanukkah from My Travel Hats
When you marry someone Jewish, you get to light pretty candles eight nights in a row.
December 21, 2008
Getting Lost In… Holiday fun around Washington, D.C.
Kicking off the start of this city-focus series is my current home of Washington, D.C. Getting lost here is a regular activity, since when Monsieur L’Enfant designed this city, I theorize that he was secretly playing a cruel joke on les americains stupide by building in roundabouts with badly timed traffic lights, zig-zagging streets and [...]
December 19, 2008
On My Itinerary: Thailand, in one week!
Last night I did a test-pack of my carry-on, and after expanding all the TravelPro expandable areas, realized it had exceeded the 45-inch limit for a carry-on. So, I was forced to unload. I took out two tank-tops, a t-shirt, a skirt, a repackaging of our Pepto-Bismol and Advil into little plastic baggies (instead of [...]
December 18, 2008
In The Suitcase: packing light
I am absolutely determined to go to Thailand with one carry-on suitcase and one “personal item” which sometimes can be a daypack as large as my carry-on. I usually travel with a carry-on because it takes forever to receive my bag at the baggage carousel. If it even makes it there, which in recent times [...]
