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One more spin

well, we finally left that vietnam. we almost didnt. at the airport this morning, we ran into trouble when the Thai Airways staff had trouble recognizing our tickets. since we had made adjustments in Argentina to extend our stay, the tickets looked different than the staff was accustomed to. therefore, they must have thought we were terrorists. it was a long ordeal involving many trips back to the office to make overseas phone calls, confused looks by the staff, and us somehow maintaining a calm that probably helped us save disaster. eventually, they cleared us and we got to go on. ill never understand how an airline can have a problem when a passengers name is in the computer, the person shows up with photo ID and a ticket, and they somehow think something is wrong. one day, paper tickets will disappear completely, and sanity will regain control on the world. but it was ok, 'cause karma rewarded our patience with seats at the front of a section with limitless legroom and two friendly and attractive stewardesses occasionally sitting in front of us when the situation demanded it. one had mints.

bangkok was good to get back to. we took a taxi to the Asha guest house and had no trouble getting a room. but as usual, it was on the top floor so the trip up was easy with our 40 lb packs. we dropped our stuff and quickly made our way out to get to the massive market i described before in another bangkok entry. last time we went on a saturday and it was crazy. today was sunday, and it was chaos. but we were on a mission to obtain select items and knew that our late arrival meant we had a small window in which to find them. using our vague and age obscured memory, we were actually able to find many of the stalls we were looking for based only on our one encounter with the labryth of stalls. somehow, against better judgement and my backpacks whimpers, i bought a bunch of stuff and now im faced with the complex issue of finding places to put it. its just that there is so much cool stuff there, and the prices are ridiculous, so what is really stopping you from spending a little cash. for example, a select list of items purchased today by either david or i: composite silk/cotton fishermans pants (arguably the most comfortable pants on earth), a michael jordan jersey, cotton european soccer banners, silk ties, an argentina national football jersey, thai beer t-shirts, and the gem of the day, a reversable, authentic, Emmit Smith jersey (which cost 6 dollars). this market is crazy cool. we spent maybe 3 hours there and bought maybe 30 dollars worth of stuff. on the tuk-tuk ride home, the wind blew my favorite hat off my head. that was upsetting.

so tonight we eat well and enjoy the last night in an East Asian country. we have all day tomorrow to do whatever so im sure we'll find our way into trouble somehow. then its india, and time to throw all comfort and westernized thinking to the wind. should be interesting. scratch that, should be amazing.

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