Bangkok

We're safely in Bangkok.  Just had an incredibly spicey spread of mouth-watering Thai dishes -- we've been craving that for a quite awhile.  Bangkok is a giantic city.  I think we'll save most of it for late January before we fly out.  We're trying to figure what to do next.  I think we're leaning towards taking a break and spending some time on a quite island off the Andamar coast in southern Thailand.  Probably leaving tomorrow night on the red-eye bus.