Goodnight Sun

Starting my day off by walking around Victory Monument in Bangkok. The monument commemorates the Thai "victory" in the Franco-Thai War, a brief conflict waged against the French colonial authorities in Indo China, which resulted in Thailand annexing some territories in western Cambodia and northern and southern Laos. It's one of the busiest places to walk around and it looks like the traffic never moves there.

Victory Monument

Afterwards, I met up with Devin Atherton and we wandered through Siam District for a while. It's unreal to be able to walk into a clothing store while drinking a beer.

Killing time, aimlessly searching for an arcade but settle for a bowling alley. Rhythm and bowl. Bounce, bounce.

Pitcher of beer was included in this fee. Thank you!

Mr. Atherton made an appearance on Thai Radio with DJ Gap. Rapping silliness and freestylin' to No Diggity.
Highlight of the night: Carlos constantly reminding us that he's SO wasted ("Guys, I'm soooo wasted") thoroughout the entire adventure.
...7 am stumbling into an odd room to watch Russia News til the sun breaks.  Goodnight Sun!

[could not have said it better myself]

Siam, Bangkok

This is what Christmas looks like in one of the most glamorous parts of Bangkok.
Madame Tessauds Wax Museum is pretty elegant and wonderful as well.
A true 'Sex and the City' kind of day...

HI MOM!

Bangkok, Thailand

I don't really give this place enough credit so here are some wonderful shots I have acquired over my many visits.

 Cable Chaos

 Traffic on the bridge of Jutujak Market

 Young Monks

Sometimes you get lucky and Buddha gives you a shot like this

I'm not even close to done yet,

emilalawronge xo

Good guys go to heaven, Bad guys go to Pattaya, Thailand (a tale of ladyboys and letchery)

Prostitution is officially illegal here, as it is in the city of Las Vegas, but the law is similarly ignored. However, here the prostitutes are not hiding behind the venue of an escort service. They are siting at beer bars, touching and calling out to every male-ish lifeform that isn't attached to some type of female.
It's practically the city mantra. "Hey sexy, wewcome," they repeat in their Thai accents as all the beer bellies, gray hairs and double chins stroll by.
As Devin Atherton put it, " I finally know what it feels like for a girl to walk by a construction site. "

Now there were some things to like about this town. Jomtien beach provided us with its semi-clear blueish green bath temperature water. You plop down in one of the beach chairs and the parade of vendors stroll past you. "Foot massage?" "Seafood?" "Ice cream?" "Tattoo?" You want it, you got it. Right there under your shady umbrella in your cozy beach chair.

There were a lot of memories acquired from this place, although most of them are wildly insane (notable the tour of an Alice In Wonderland style sex hotel, quite similar to a place an acid trip would take you) or based purely on bad luck (honourable mentions include motorbike accidents, bribing cops, flat tires, losing wallets, missing buses) however, I must say I thoroughly enjoyed myself and require little to no sleep or food to party pretty damn hard. Now time to sleep til New Years Eve....


xo
emilalawronge

every night, forever

clothing optional.

East vs West

The West is a culture of emergency: Twisters in Texas, earthquakes in California, windchill in Chicago, drought, flood, famine, epidemics, war on everything - watch out for that meteor and how much longer does the sun really have? Of course, if you didn't believe you could control everything, there wouldn't be an emergency, would there?

Rock Garden

How can you complain about anything when this is the view from your (second homes') backward?