Some caffeine before we take our red-eye to Taiwan

Getting settled in for a 13 hour flight across the Pacific

Chinese food at 6am at the Taipei airport

Finding a taxi when we land in Bangkok

Once we're off the toll-way, traffic snarls to a crawl

Some prime real estate, just feet from the railway

Lobby at the Westin

Bamboo decorations inside the Westin lobby

The bar at the Westin hotel

View from the Westin bar. We can see the Asok skytrain station

Ronald McDonald teaches me how to do the traditional Thai greeting, the wai

Nana skytrain station

A Starbucks on every corner, feels just like home.

There is no consistent architectural theme to the city of Bangkok

There are street vendors everywhere, selling everything from electronics to souvenirs to counterfeit products

Time for some food... here they have giant shrimp on the pizza.

Colonel Sanders does the traditional western greeting, the handshake

Dogs and people on the railroad tracks. We must be in a third world country.

There are little shrines to buddhah everywhere.

Traffic on the street doesn't move but the skytrain above zips right along.

Some interesting artwork in front of the Intercontinental hotel

Intercontinental hotel

Another shrine, but this time not for Buddhah

The skytrain costs about from 25 cents to 50 cents but that is too expensive so most people take the slow busses that have no airconditiong

Busses in Bangkok come in all shapes and colors, but they all look equally uncomfortable

Gap riding the escalator in the mall

The streets are colorful with cabs and billboards

Fred on a pedestrian bridge in Bangkok