OH APARTMENT, WHERE ART THOU?

After a long search for sustenance, Jakob and Meg offer up a prayer of gratitude alongside the farang god of foraging.

















The family waits on the platform for a sky-train that will take us to yet another disappointing apartment complex. On these journeys, Kaddi is reponsible for making sure that Meg doesn't get carried away by awe-struck admirers, and I am responsible for making sure Jakob ends up inside the train instead of laying face down across the tracks.









This was one of the first neighbourhoods we looked in for an apartment. The rents were very reasonable, and each unit came with a free malaria innoculation and we're allowed to catch and cook as many swamp rats as we can find. Despite the attractiveness of this Kaddi decided to pass...after she regained consciousness back at the hotel.









The 'tuk-tuk' was initially the kids favorite mode of transportation, until we got stuck in traffic behind a large diesel bus. Given the large quantities of lead now coursing through our bloodstreams, it will be at least ten months before we can once again pass through a metal detector.







Victory Monument celebrates the Thai 'victory' over French Indochina during the 1940-1 Franco-Thai conflict. It is now a major traffic thoroughfare and skytrain station where one can purchase all sorts up fake merchandise and cd's. On this particular day we on our way to check out an apartment near the river and close to the National Archives. It will the first and last visit Kaddi will ever make that area of Bangkok.