Bangkok

In October 2025, the timing worked out to take a bit of time off work, and I found an incredibly priced flight to Bangkok. I’ve wanted to travel in Asia as long as I can remember, and never made it a priority. Let’s go. All in all I had an amazing time, and loved Thailand, and would love to go back. Every person I met was kind and patient with this American Idiot. Insanely good food. Everywhere. Most things are wildly affordable. Impeccable public transit. I didn’t even get out of the city, and even there the natural beauty of the country is obvious. It was a great introduction to Asia for me.

I did have a bit of a rough health journey and didn’t make it very far through my list of things to do, getting quite sick with the worst stomach bug of my life, and needing to be hospitalized by the end of my 3rd day there. (I have no idea what I ate to get sick. It might have been touching the Capybaras? A mystery for the ages.) And flights in and out were both pummeled by weather – I arrived a day late, and got home a day late with an unexpected sleepover in Hong Kong. But adventure takes many forms, and I’m still grateful to be able to go and get a break from the day to day.

Here are a few of the images and memories from the trip.

The view which greeted me upon finally getting to my hotel. Bangkok is beautiful at night.

Waking up the next morning

First of many massages

I love the repurposed wood for this structure.

Thailand has insane, multistory, packed, and amazing malls.

I kept texting my co-workers Apple stores as I found them. “Stop following me!”

The BTS is the sky train, and it is an amazing, fast, cheap, air conditioned way to get around.

I took a Thai curry cooking class. It was for 6 but only I booked, so it was a 1:1. Truly delicous and a memorable experience.

This was the prep when I got there.

I got dibs on the green curry

All 3 curries

Green Curry

Red Curry

Yellow Curry

If I did not understand statistics .. I would be on this next time you saw me

The Apple stores in Thailand are really impressive.

Capybara Enounter, bribing them down the stairs with watermelon

My new friend. Or does he just want fruit.

Came out of a massage into an incredible thunderstorm. It turned out after 10 years of good service my packable rain coat was just a packable coat. It soaked through instantly.

And then I got sick. And got to experience some inadvertent medical tourism. Shout out to the BNH Hospital in Bangkok, though. They took incredible care of me.