Our flight arrived on time. That meant we were through customs by 7:00. We grabbed breakfast (hot Thai soup) next to the Express Bus pickup at the airport. Of course, that put us in one of those busses during rush hour. I haven’t been here since the 90’s and although there are new elevated trains and highways, the traffic jams are similar to those I remember. From the express bus we took the BST station to Chong Nonsi. First we exitting on the wrong side of the road and could not locate the place we wanted to stay. The system wasn’t set up for toting around 50 lb bags, which we hope to leave at the hotel during our travels to Cambodia later in the week.
At last,we checked into the Om Yim Lodge at about 10:15 as our room was already prepared. We paid for three nights.
After sleeping for only about 20 minutes last night, we went to right to bed. Rather than for the two hours planned we got up at 3:00 pm. A cursory walk out about down Silom Road to the corner of Lumpini Park gave us an updated memory map of the area.
Now we’re in the room checking maps to see where things are.
