In Bangkok!

So our plans didn't quite pan out like we had wanted. Our original plan was to take the bus from Siem Reap to Bangkok which would take 6 hours... it ended up taking 11 hours. Then we were going to go to train station in Bangkok where we would book our train ticket to Vientiane in Laos that night. So not what happened. Trains are booked up until January 2nd. We ended up buying a bus ticket from a tour agency that I hope is reputable and isn't going to scam us. It's apparently a "TAT" agency which is a government run travel agent, but the thing in Asia is that if a business is doing well, another entrepreneur might steal the name and call their business the same thing. The sign on the travel agency said TAT, but we have no idea what the company's logo looks like. For example in Hanoi, Vietnam, there is a very successful travel agency called Kangaroo Travels. There is one real one, and 5 fake ones.... Lets hope that's not the case with this one. Although I don't see how the government wouldn't immediately shut down a fake TAT agency. In Asia, anything is possible.

We're in Bangkok and ended up staying in a guesthouse close to the train station called "Your Place." It's really cute and you can't even tell you're in Bangkok. It's in a little alley way with a lush garden and lots of birds and fish in ponds. It's expensive but we still didn't have a place to sleep until 9:30 last night, so we were willing to pay the $26.

Tonite we leave for Vientiane in Laos. Hopefully things run accordingly but the last couple of days have been a clusterf$@* which has been quite frustrating. Nothing has worked out according to plan. Cross your fingers for us.