Day one: Bangkok

February 12th 4:12pm
Day one: Bangkok
The first thing you need to know is that my jetlag plan failed completely. I got about an hour of sleep last night. Which brings me up to about two hours since I left home. God knows how long ago that was. I've lost the ability to think that hard. But that wasn't going to stop me from exploring Bangkok some. So I walked around aimlessly for a couple of hours. Ate a few things from street vendors, which seem to be by far the best thing about this town. I paid about 30 cents for a small meal of some sort of fries rice balls and cabbage. I paid the same for a green coconut to drink and a bag of pineapple. Two hours of that (with all my stuff) left me pretty dazed and drenched in sweat. Since I'm incapable of navigating right now, I just flagged down a cab and had it take me back to the train station in it's (poorly) air-conditioned glory. The city is complete chaos, having never been out if the first world before, I have absolutely nothing to compare it to that makes any sense. The driving is crazy, the walking is crazy, the whole freaking system is crazy. If there was a system, and believe me, there isn't. Oh god, I'm so tired I'm not putting commas in the proper places.
Anyway, I'm on a train from 530 pm to 230 am. I do have a bed of some kind on the train. What happens at 230am when I arrive at chumphon. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

Oh, I forgot the best part about the train station. They have a giant tv screen and have been showing Thai music videos for the last half hour. Imagine watching a soap opera with the sound off. Then listening to bad Thai pop at the same time. It's like a dream!!!