Ah..grilled chicken at it's finest!!!
We rolled on into Khon Kaen around 3:00 pm and began to look for hotel. Every time we've come to a city to begin looking for a place to stay, we've looked up in Colin's Lonely Planet guidebook for where we are. What we didn't count on in Khon Kaen is that they don't have street signs identified, so we didn't know where the hell we were. Finally, stopped and asked some guy for a particular guesthouse we wanted to see, and rode past this 7 story older hotel...Khon Kaen Hotel. As it turned out, this was the original 5 star hotel in Khon Kaen, although it had fallen on hard times and would probably have difficulty getting 2-3 stars...would of loved to have been there when the stars were removed! Anyway..it only set us back 650 baht (around $23 a night) and it had cable TV (I insisted as I wanted to see the Super Bowl), AC and other nice amenities. We showered then took out looking for an internet cafe, food, and massage. Well, we found the food...great place across the street which served fresh pizza so we each had a 10" pizza...although expensive (to us..at $6 each). We wandered around and found what we were looking for and then came back to hotel for a nightcap. Heard all this music and noise so we walked over this this door and look at the place called "The Harem Club"..(absolute truth). Looked in and there must of been 200 Thai girls sitting around in this "bar" and several Westerner's and Thai men. Turns out is was a "Gentleman's Club" and no, it was not what most of you perverts out there are thinking...a Gentleman's Club in Asia is where a man goes in, can sit and drink, have several beautiful girls around him who laugh at his every spoken word, he pays a million baht then leaves. The girls are not available for the evening and it is absolutely forbidden for the girl (or the man) to negotiate anything other. So no...the girls don't come to the man's room for sex. They are just girls who make the man happy for several hours, drinking with him and laughing. The girls usually get 50% of the price of the drinks so they are always trying to get him to drink more and buy them more drinks. So after looking this over we knew we didn't feel like sitting in some smoke filled bar and paying out a thousand baht to have cute little girls laugh at what we were saying and not understanding a word we said...so off to bed.
I had already heard the score of the Super Bowl and was bummed out...really wanted to see the Pat's win it all...mainly cause Tom Brady, the Pat's quarterback is a University of Michigan ex-quarterback...and my sons and I bleed Maize and Blue. But...wasn't meant to be...just pissed me off though the guy who caught the winning go ahead TD for the Giants..had to be an ex-Michigan State guy...now that REALLY pissed me off!!!
Oh well....next year....
Later Dudes and Dudettes.
Len
1 comment:
Hey,
Looks like a great trip. I do not know if I could keep up the pace. But I would rather be there then here right now. We are having any kind of weather you can think of.
The US economy is going in the TANK for 2008.
If you have been checking your investments then you know what is up. If not then prepare for a serious loss in investment capital.
Today was LOI for college football. Michigan does not have any QB's on there list yet. Mallet is going to be a razor back next year. Guess he did not want to be a bench warmer. I do not think it is any big loss.
Go Blue, GO BIKE RIDE, T$
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