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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