Dharma bums

What can I say about our colorful friend Doug?, it is hard to narrow it down to just one incident.

Day One-My fellow dharma bums Norm and Don and I arrived at the Shanti Lodge only to discover that they hadn’t held our rooms and, at 3:00 AM no one else in the area had rooms available either. Doug went off with his “fiance” and we thought that might be last we saw of him until our return flight, this thought came with no small relief. It was not to be.

We stayed up the remainder of the night/early morning drinking beer and observing the incredible sights, sounds and smells of the awakening market just accross the street. It turned out to be a fabulous time for us to fully unite the Dharma bums, Don and I had just met prior to our SFO departure. By about 10:00 in the morning we finally got rooms at the Sawatdee Guest House across the alley from Shanti Lodge.

After a very full day(the events of which Don detailded on the previous blog)we went to bed about midnight, our jet-lag forgotten, only to be awakened at 5:00AM by commotion right outside our rooms. I awoke to an unmistakeable voice asking the hostess for a strong drink, when she didn’t immediately understand he spoke louder. He wasn’t much interested in the coffee she offered, he wanted something STRONG! Our friend Doug had unknowingly found us again.

So began Day2.

Dharma Bernie

Tags: Bangkok, Travel

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What can I say about our colorful friend Doug?, it is hard to narrow it down to just one incident.

Day One-My fellow dharma bums Norm and Don and I arrived at the Shanti Lodge only to discover that they hadn’t held our rooms and, at 3:00 AM no one else in the area had rooms available either. Doug went off with his “fiance” and we thought that might be last we saw of him until our return flight, this thought came with no small relief. It was not to be.

We stayed up the remainder of the night/early morning drinking beer and observing the incredible sights, sounds and smells of the awakening market just accross the street. It turned out to be a fabulous time for us to fully unite the Dharma bums, Don and I had just met prior to our SFO departure. By about 10:00 in the morning we finally got rooms at the Sawatdee Guest House across the alley from Shanti Lodge.

After a very full day(the events of which Don detailded on the previous blog)we went to bed about midnight, our jet-lag forgotten, only to be awakened at 5:00AM by commotion right outside our rooms. I awoke to an unmistakeable voice asking the hostess for a strong drink, when she didn’t immediately understand he spoke louder. He wasn’t much interested in the coffee she offered, he wanted something STRONG! Our friend Doug had unknowingly found us again.

So began Day2.

Dharma Bernie

Tags: Bangkok, Travel

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 11th, 2006 at 9:13 pm and is filed under Travel. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.