First Night in Bangkok

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Wat Phra Kaew, Bangkok, Thailand
Wat Phra Kaew, Bangkok, Thailand
Yesterday was an extremely long day for me. I woke up at 2am in Sydney to record This Week in Travel, stayed up to follow the Apple iPad announcement (I think the iPad looks to be a great travel gadget), then flew to Melbourne, was forced by the airline to buy a ticket out of Thailand before they’d let me board the flight, then sat in the air for 10 hours. In hindsight, I probably should have flown from Fiji to Hong Kong rather than Sydney, but there is no point complaining about that now.

In the taxi drive into Bangkok, I got the same feeling I did when I was here last year. There are certain cities which just have a buzz about them. New York has it, Chicago doesn’t. Hong Kong has it, Singapore doesn’t. Bangkok has it, Kuala Lumpur doesn’t. Thailand has become a magnet for so many westerners who are looking for a place overseas to work. There must be at least half a dozen different bloggers here right now.

My primary purpose in coming to Bangkok is to work. I’ve found moving around constantly to be an impediment to getting some things done, so I’m going to camp here for about two months and work on my website and other projects.

In addition to the business, I will be doing regular side trips on the weekends. There are two national parks I want to visit and I might make a short trip to southern Laos to visit a World Heritage Site. I will also be doing a longer trip to Burma at some point.

My first order of business is getting processing all the photos sitting on my laptop. I still have thousands of photos from my trip out west I still have to sift through. I tossed about 1,000 from Fiji on top of that too.

I’ll also be writing more. I have about six unfinished articles which are almost ready to go and I hope to launch some of the things I discussed earlier this month.

I’m also going to be looking for some people to help me on a few small projects. I’m looking for:

  • A programmer with skills in PHP and MySQL who can help do minor changes to my WordPress theme.
  • A graphic designer who can help do small design projects and do some icons.
  • An intern or an assistant who can do some small online tasks for me, preferably someone in North America because I need some things to be done while I’m sleeping in Thailand. If you want to learn the ropes of running a travel blog, this would be a great opportunity for someone to get some first-hand experience.

These aren’t full-time jobs or even part-time jobs. I’m looking for people I can develop a relationship with to work on small projects as they arise. If you are interested, send an email to gary@everything-everywhere.com.