Our first day was pretty great and the Thai’s are pretty cool and very smiley…sometimes you have to smile first thought or you might mistake their stares as a voodoo curse of death. Actually in all seriousness, the greetings from the Thai’s are awesome.Here’s a blurb I swiped that explains it pretty well;
We had a nice flight on colorful Thai Air (they had purple, yellow and blue seats coupled with blue and pink mood lighting inside the plane). They also had this…..yup, its a video of the TV in my seat that displayed an onboard camera firmly fastened to the nose of the plane so easily amused folk like myself could be tickled at the sight of our plane hitting the runway. Check it.
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=13182022&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1
approaching Bangkok, Thailand…. from Nicole Appel on Vimeo.
Alright well, I liked it. Anyway, after our flight touched down we hopped a bus to our hotel as the thought of being swindled by a cabby for 3 times the fare sounded less enticing at the moment. The good part, we got to the hotel. The bad part, it was the wrong one. No biggy, we grabbed a metered cabby and for less than $2, we made it to the FuramaXclusive in Sathorn, Bangkok. Whats nice is that this hotel gives free fruity drinks at check-ins so we scored twice as the first hotel actually gave us the drinks before they realized we were retards, and then we got them again at the right place! I know, but free stuff is always better on a budget.
We did have to wait an unearthly 10 minutes for our room but we were kindly rewarded with an upgrade to a premium suite on a higher floor with a better view! Its times like that when I usually feel bad and say that its not a big deal but I could see Nicole’s knuckles whitening with a clear shot at my gonads if I did, so I smiled and said f*ck yeah!….no I didn’t….but I did when I heard we got free breakfast and booze during happy hour everyday. That warranted a bad word. The best part is the $32 pricetag which is actually over budget for us but in the first week we’re laxin off on that to get our heads on straight before we climb into the hostel dorm life of a backpacker.Here’s a shot from our balcony and the one shot I took inside.
We wondered about the town for a bit, had some eats (Pad Thai of course) and then caught a swim before callin it a night. Lots of legwork to be done tomorrow so we’ll have more and better pics I promise 🙂
khwap khun (thank you in Thai) for reading!
-adam
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Intentionally and incrementally. Most families who live this way did not leap from conventional to adventurous overnight. They built remote work capacity, paid down debt, tested longer trips, and had increasingly honest conversations about what they actually want from their lives. The leap feels bigger from outside than from inside.
Different for every family. For some it is long-term travel. For others it is weekend adventures close to home. What connects them is intentionality about how time is spent and a preference for experiences over accumulation. The version that fits your family is the right one.
By finding stability within the adventure rather than treating them as opposites. Routines, rituals, and family rhythms travel with you. Familiar foods, bedtime routines, and predictable family dynamics provide stability even when the location changes. Kids need consistency in relationships more than consistency in geography.
That people are fundamentally similar across cultures in what they want for their families. That comfort zone is a smaller circle than it feels from inside. That the things worth having in life require effort and discomfort to get. And that time together doing hard interesting things is the most reliable source of family closeness.
By getting clear on why you made the choices you made and returning to that clarity when the outside noise gets loud. Most families living unconventionally describe an initial period of explaining themselves that gradually gives way to just living the life. The explaining becomes less necessary as the results become visible.
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