Wednesday, January 11.... Boring day here.

Hello everybody were back again coming to you live from Bangkok.

So I'd like to tell you that I did something exciting today, but it was just another one of those days.

By the time I got moving today and got myself out of the hotel it was just getting to be about lunchtime, so the crowds were pretty heavy. I thought I would try and make it to the floating market today, but things this did not work out the way I planned. I headed out walking toward Starbucks for some coffee, but when I got there I decided that instead I would buy my coffee from a local vendor, so I set out walking down the road in search of coffee. 

Mission accomplished! 

With coffee in hand I headed out looking for a Tuk-Tuk driver. For those of you who don't know what a Tuk-Tuk is, it is a three wheeled motorcycle type of taxi. If you click on the link you can get more information there. After quite a bit of walking I finally found a Tuk-Tuk, talked to the driver and climbed aboard. Now the problem here in Bangkok is that the drivers get paid by the tailor shops to bring in tourists for a hard sell on clothing. Myself being aware of this I told my driver I did not want to go to a tailor, and that I would pay him to not take me there. I told him that I just wanted to go see the floating market and didn't want to deal with the tailor shops. He kept wanting me to go to just one tailor, and when I told him no he decided to pass me off on another driver. At this point I just gave him twenty baht which is the equivalent of about eighty cents and told him never mind. So, at this point I decided to just do some walking around and do pretty much nothing.

Along my walk back to the hotel I came along a little Vietnamese vendor where I decided to make a purchase of a very cool opium pipe. From there it was off to the hotel to just kick back and relax.

The lunchtime crowds.

More crowds.

This is not the greatest picture, but across the street it is all food ~ very crowded.

The coffee vendor I found along the way ~These street vendors can really whip up a great cup of coffee.

That is eighty cents opposed to the five dollars I would have spent at Starbucks ~ And it taste better too!

Ended up at one of the many canals and watched a few of the water taxis go by. By the looks of this thing I would say it's a water bus!

These things operate pretty much just like a bus only they are on the water ~ They will pick you up at stops along the canal and you can ride it down the canal to whatever stop you need to get off at.

Looking down the pathway along the canal.

There seems to be a lot of dogs along the canal walkway ~ At least they all seem friendly.

A face only a mother could love.

Across the canal they were in the works of making a new temple. If you look closely you can see the guys working on the roof.

I do believe the little building there with the gold trim on it is a crematorium ~  If you look closely you can see where the smoke comes out the top center.

There's the dogs again ~ these ones did not want to move so the girl could get by, but she finally worked her way around them. There was supposed to be a geocache at the bottom of the steps, but it seems to have disappeared.

Just an abstract picture I took of one of the buildings.

Time to pick up some lunch.

Just a picture of what's available from one of the food vendors.

And more...

That my friend is a Tuk-Tuk.

A picture I took from the back of the Tuk-Tuk ~ That was the driver who was trying to scam me.

This is the Vietnamese vendor I found along my way back to the hotel.

This guy has loads of cool stuff for sale!

Another shot of his cart.

He wanted to take a picture of me with his cart, but it ended up being more of a close-up.

There was really some unbelievable craftsmanship.

Elephants and Buddhas

One more picture for the road.

A picture of the opium pipe I bought from him.

This thing has some excellent detail, and I just love the Dragon!! It actually looks like ivory but he told me it was pig bone.

Finally back to the hotel to eat my lunch ~ Spicy green papaya salad.

You end up seeing some of the strangest things loaded on trucks around here... Or should I say overloaded?

Hey look it's the hospital... Decided to go visit my friend again for a little while.

Food vendor outside the hospital

These little tiny oranges are the best oranges I have ever had!!

More sunflower seeds ~ These things are great!

I ended up going into a 7-Eleven outside of the hospital, and it was the biggest 7-Eleven I had ever seen.... It had a bakery, a pharmacy, a coffee shop, and everything else a normal 7-Eleven has. The green tea smoothie was all of about fifty cents ~ What a deal!
I did end up going out walking around and checking out some of the nightlife for a few minutes, grabbed a burger from this cool little burger shack, and headed back to my hotel to get some sleep.
So that is pretty much it for my day... I know boring ~ boring ~ boring!! I did have a few other pictures, but they're on my iPhone and I hadn't taken time to move them onto the computer.
So today's blog was done mostly with my voice recognition software instead of typing... I wanted to get a feel of how this program works, and I like it. I am actually very impressed with the program ~ it seems to work great!! I did have to fix a few things, but my typing ended up being very limited.... That is a bonus!
 Thanks again for being here and following me on my adventures, and I will see you all again here tomorrow.
Have a Great Positive Day!!
Leo