This weekend I stayed around Bangkok - did the shopping I've been putting off form months (finally bought a clothes line to dry my clothes on...finally bought a garbage can) and worked on an article stemming from my thesis that I should have finished last summer. Here are a few pictures of my turf, starting at my apartment, and then walking down to the BTS - the skytrain that takes you around the city.
My *very* humble abode, where I sleep sometimes, cook once in a while, and that's about it.
Street vendors are everywhere! Most are on wheels so they can move around.
The broom/duster vender guy bikes all over with his wares...
3 people on a little scooter is a pretty regular thing - I've seen a family of 5 pile on - mom and dad and 3 kids hanging on!
Many very poor people work construction. They work for months building a big house or an apartment building and they usually live on site - put up these temporary shacks made out of corrugated metal and wood...then one day you wake up and the whole community is gone and just their trash is left. Here is one of those spots along the road...
Motorcycle taxi drivers...most women sit side-saddle. The hard core ladies never hold on and make a point of talking on the mobile, like this one!
The BTS station by my house.
Look at those Flying Falongs...hockey in Bangkok?!?
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