Entries from April 2009

April 10, 2009

This shouldn’t be this hard

It’s six in the morning and the time has come to go on a diatribe against the tourism industry of South East Asia.  This morning we were woken up suddenly by evil lights turning on in the bus at 5:25 and someone yelling, “Get off now, Bangkok!”  By the time we gathered our stuff and [...]

April 7, 2009

Thai Massage: Prepare to be touched

Everywhere we’ve been in South East Asia so far we hear voices calling to us from every direction, all of them saying the same thing in the same tone:  “Eh Laydee, you wanna massage?”  We sought out a massage in Hanoi and it was so bad it’s not worth mentioning.  Ever since then we cringed [...]