6 countries, 70 days, malaria pills, and traveling college girls (41 SE Asia, 29 Europe) out for an adventure of a lifetime. No one knows where life will take us, what could happen, or what we will end up eating… all we know is that our children and grandchildren will never hear the end of these stories. Kelsey and Sami will be posting about the first part of the trip in Southeast Asia and while Kelsey goes back to the States, Sami and Kayla continue the adventure in Europe.

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Bangkok, Thailand


The adventure embarked in SFO on June 20 for our 13.5 hour flight to Taipei, Taiwan. Surprisingly, the flight went faster than we presumed. Except for a couple moments… Right after we took off (1:35 am) Kels and I grabbed our neck pillows and eye masks and conked out. An hour later, I was awoken by the flight attendant shoving a meal in my face. I replied all groggy with “right now?” and she yelled at me with her thick asian accent, “yes you eat now!” So I placed it on the tray and fell back asleep. Twenty minutes later kels woke up to her again yelling at Kelsey “you like chicken or beef!?” Kelsey all groggy looked at her so confused and mumbled chicken. Then I woke up to the same flight attendant as well because she jolted by seat forward and commanded “meal time!” The meal was surprisingly good, but we were so tired we just picked at it and fell back asleep. After a very boring 7 hour layover in Tai Pei and a 3.5 hour flight, we finally arrived in Bangkok. Right when that plane hit the ground, kels and I looked at each other with both our hearts pounding and it finally hit us that we were on the other side of the world in a continent we’ve never been before with almost no knowledge of the language. 

After a funny drive in a hot pink taxi with crazy driving and no seat belts, we checked into our hotel room at 5:30 exhausted. Too tired to find authentic thai food, we settled for the pizza hut across the street. Already delusional from deprived sleep, we got back to our room and had a breakdown. To start it all off, it was 90 degrees at night with humidity and our AC wasn’t working. Then we found bed bugs and mosquitoes flying around (and to us everything had malaria) so you could say- we started freaking out. Crying to each other on how we should’ve chose a place in Europe to study abroad and what the fuck were we doing in THAILAND, ASIA, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD. After calming down for a bit, we gathered ourselves together and sprayed the perimeter of our bed with 100% deet, lathered ourselves in bug spray, and slept on our towels. Culture shock? Thankfully, things have gotten A LOT better since the first hellish night. 

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