“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” -Mark Twain

Sunday, February 21, 2010

To Miss or Not to Miss

Things I'll miss about Thailand & Cambodia:
  • Flipflops every day
  • Mango sticky rice
  • Street food - any food, any time
  • Breakfast: egg omelet w/ scallions on rice w/ chili sauce, sitting on a plastic stool on a sidewalk, for $0.75
  • 3 meals a day for $5 total
  • Bargaining
  • Friendly people, greetings
  • Taking shoes off before entering a home (maybe I'll start this)
  • Chicken soup in coconut lime broth
  • Fast, clean, cheap Bangkok public rail transit
  • Bangkok - clean, green, friendly, alive
  • Heat - a nice change from Chicago
Things I won't miss:
  • Smelling like mosquito repellent
  • Taxis that don't use meters - negotiating rates
  • Scheisters - "One more stop first in tuk tuk ride" or "temple closed today, but I'll show you other temple" or taxi drivers that the longest way around
  • Being hassled by pushy vendors
  • Living out of a suitcase
  • Doing laundry by hand
  • Calculating monetary conversion rate in my head
  • Heat - and changing clothes 3x/day because of it

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