I was given a copy of the CT report. I took a photo of the report, and then send an instant message to my friend Slobodan, a radiologist in Boston. I met Slobodan over 20 years ago, when we both lived in Baltimore. I would see him around at bars and parties, and we were friendly, but we never hung…
The third and final day of the Bangkok leg of my trip was to be devoted to the massive Chatuchak Market. I had visited it with Mark several years before, and the experience stayed in our heads for years. It was a total shopper’s paradise. The market is absolutely enormous. It is divided into sections (I’m not sure how many;…
For Day 2, the itinerary was lighter: A visit to another temple (Wat Suthat), and then a local park, and then finish the day strolling through Bangkok’s extensive Chinatown. First, I chowed down at the hotel’s excellent buffet. I took a tuk-tuk to Wat Suthat, just north of Chinatown. Wat Suthat is one of the city’s most beautiful and biggest…
I snagged a great seat – a window seat in the emergency row, with lots of legroom – on the flight from Amsterdam to Bangkok. Bangkok has an Airport Rail Link, which is very similar to New York’s Airtrain. And the BTS train system is just like the New York subway. So rather than take a cab, I elected to…