Empty Nesters Take Flight

Global Nomadic Travel after kids leave the nest

Category: SE Asia

  • Last of Bangkok plus Pattaya and Ayutthaya

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    Bangkok Bike Tour We rode through back alleys and busy streets.  Street vendors to market streets to a huge flower/food market in a warehouse.  Chinese temples, Buddhist temples, a Catholic church in an old Portugues district.  Ferry crossings, road crossings, potholes, narrow passages dealing with cars and scooters, pedestrians and kids playing ball.  Note the…

  • Checking in from Bangkok, Thailand

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    Flying Air Asia from Penang to Bangkok (Air Asia is a budget airline with legroom allowances appropriate only for adults 5’ 1” or smaller) we arrived in Bangkok and made our way to our AirBnB apartment on Petchubury Road via Grab Car.  We’re on the 27th foor with a nice view towards downtown. We’ve been…

  • Penang Island, Part Deux

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    Full time travel is a marathon, not a sprint, so we aren’t in tourist mode all the time.  We’ve taken some time to work on “stuff back home”, such as Susie renewing her Real Estate License (we still have a couple houses to sell in Idaho), doing some work for Forsta, laundry, finances, figuring out…