My 200,000 Bar Tab

Pretty balla, right? Not for a guy in my situation. But more on that later. Monday I left the hot, sticky, and polluted Bangkok to visit the hot, sticky, and polluted Ho Chi Mihn City (aka Saigon). I was on a visa run. Every so often you have to leave Thailand and go visit another …

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A Night Out in Bangkok

We had a little party through Thailand Friends for one of our members. The plan of attack was a few drinks at one of the cheapest watering holes in Bangkok, Cheap Charlies, then to the restaurant he manages Charlie Brown’s (some of the best Mexican food in Bangkok, IMHO), and then over to nightclub Climaxx. …

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Taste of Thailand

One of the weird things about living in Thailand is getting into the groove of how it can be so advanced and yet so backwards at the same time. Bangkok is a city of close to 12 million people from all over the world. A truly international city. Yet, up until a year or two …

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The Amazing Psychic Squid

I’ve never been much on fortune tellers and such but Paul the psychic octopus has had an amazing record picking winners in the 2010 World Cup. He picked Germany as a favorite over Australia, Ghana, England, Argentina and Uruguay and Germany won all of those matches. He picked Serbia and Spain to beat the Germans …

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