Same same but different

We have arrived in Bangkok!! Apart from the hour long hair-raising, anxiety provoking, nail-biting ride from Palolem to Denbolim airport at 5 am.... our journey to Bangkok was smooth and uneventful. No tears were shed saying farewell to Indian modes of transportation! 8 years ago when I arrived in Bangkok... I remember feeling overwhelmed, uncertain and very excited. I believe Elisa and I spent our first night in a crappy guest house on Khao San Rd, with cockroaches, dirty sheets, lots of noise..lots of heat. Well.. as they say here.. same same but different. Khao San is more built up and developed then when I was here last... but arriving was sooo easy!! No sketchy bus ride, no haggling for the price of the room, clean everything... there are sidewalks here! and despite the traffic and hoardes of western people.. it seems so quiet!!! Today we are running around doing stuff... and tonight we hop on an overnight bus and ferry to Kho Pangang. I start a month long yoga teacher training on Sunday... and Brad will be doing a whole lot of chilling. Stay tuned... the blogger will be back in action soon.