Bangkok, Part 1

Ben by the Chao Praya River
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Disclaimer: This is not us visiting Bangkok! This is us just passing through. This is us trying to find presents for Jenny's parents and figure out the best way into Cambodia and get our bearings and eat as much pad thai as we can because it really does just flow through the streets for so super cheap!

We arrived in the pre-dawn hours and left like we came, before the sun rose and amidst crowds of hippies who were still out in the streets drinking and talking and eating cheap pad thai.  For 3 days we hardly left Khoa San Road, the major backpacker haven which is lined with food and clothing vendors by day, lights up like a carnival at night, and never, ever stops serving alcohol.  Not that we were drinking, we were actually just too overwhelmed to even try to venture to see any of the sights.  The one time we did try to explore another area we took a water taxi, and we got separated at our stop when Jenny couldn't hop off before the boat pulled away, leaving Ben stranded on land and Jenny on the boat.  For the scariest half hour of this whole trip, we thought we'd lost each other in an unknown area of Bangkok.  Ben had the bag, meaning he had the cell phone and the maps, and Jenny didn't have anything, not even the cell phone number, or any money at all.  Needless to say we found each other, and boy did we deserve the ice cream we treated ourselves to after that.