Next Chance
I'm on my way to the airport now to try and get on standby to Sydney. Last I heard teh flight was full but hopefully some shmuck will forget to set his alarm or something.
This city is so...interesting. It's just very different from anything I've ever seen before. My new Canuck friend Craig described it as a mix of extremes, and thats what it is. You'll walk down one street and see beautiful palaces next to run down slums. Then down another and you'll smell the most intoxicating fruits only to be overcome with the stench of a sewer right beside. ITs really weird and hard to explain
Yesterday I met some really cool people. When I missed my flight it was nightime and Bangkok is a huge city, about 40 min away from the airport. And I had no idea where I was going
The flight crew adopted me as a buddy and they decided to let me come on their bus to the hotel and then give me directions downtown. This was all cool, unfortunatly as we were walking out, the captain came as seemed to be pretty pissy. He wasn't to uppity about me hanging out with them so to keep from causing any trouble I gave him some evil eye and bid the others goodday. They're hoping I get on today's flight b/c all teh same stewardesses and people will be on, so maybe I can see them all again
So lost and sweaty I left the airport and took a bus to the main station. There, a friendly face asked me if I was canadian, noting my roots bag. Canadians unite! Craig, a Vancouverite, was visiting Bangkok for the 3 or 4th time andbasically became my guide for the next 12 hours. He took me to the coolest hostel ever and then helped me plan out my stuff for today. Really really nice guy. I mean, I have no idea where I would have ended up w/o some help.
Anyhoo, I need to run to the airport. For all I know, paul is in the air already so I need to make this close. Fingers crossed
*** Best line of the trip so far:
Flight official: No sorry sir, there's no way we can switch you to another flight, Im sorry.
Dzido: I'm actually in a race around the world.
Flight official: Is that so?
Akward extended silence
Dzido: Yes
This city is so...interesting. It's just very different from anything I've ever seen before. My new Canuck friend Craig described it as a mix of extremes, and thats what it is. You'll walk down one street and see beautiful palaces next to run down slums. Then down another and you'll smell the most intoxicating fruits only to be overcome with the stench of a sewer right beside. ITs really weird and hard to explain
Yesterday I met some really cool people. When I missed my flight it was nightime and Bangkok is a huge city, about 40 min away from the airport. And I had no idea where I was going
The flight crew adopted me as a buddy and they decided to let me come on their bus to the hotel and then give me directions downtown. This was all cool, unfortunatly as we were walking out, the captain came as seemed to be pretty pissy. He wasn't to uppity about me hanging out with them so to keep from causing any trouble I gave him some evil eye and bid the others goodday. They're hoping I get on today's flight b/c all teh same stewardesses and people will be on, so maybe I can see them all again
So lost and sweaty I left the airport and took a bus to the main station. There, a friendly face asked me if I was canadian, noting my roots bag. Canadians unite! Craig, a Vancouverite, was visiting Bangkok for the 3 or 4th time andbasically became my guide for the next 12 hours. He took me to the coolest hostel ever and then helped me plan out my stuff for today. Really really nice guy. I mean, I have no idea where I would have ended up w/o some help.
Anyhoo, I need to run to the airport. For all I know, paul is in the air already so I need to make this close. Fingers crossed
*** Best line of the trip so far:
Flight official: No sorry sir, there's no way we can switch you to another flight, Im sorry.
Dzido: I'm actually in a race around the world.
Flight official: Is that so?
Akward extended silence
Dzido: Yes
posted by Dzido at
1:09 AM
4 Comments:
Pls leave Bangkok ASAP. It is not a safe place to be. Sydney is so much better. I keep the fingers crossed.
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Anonymous, at 10:17 AM
Dzido, you're not allowed to tell people that you're on a race around the world...totally against the Amazing Race rules, hope your not disqualified at the pit stop :P
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Anonymous, at 7:31 PM
Isn't this true that Malaysian law actually demands to disclose the goal and the purpose of the trip? And you don't want to mess up with the local justice system.
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Anonymous, at 8:33 PM
haha Dzido that little dialogue made me laugh out loud. I told my roomies and they also had a good chuckle.
Hope you made your flight! (kind of anyways, my loyalty is still with Paul).
Laura
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Anonymous, at 8:47 PM
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