{"id":18023,"date":"2019-01-23T09:32:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T20:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wohutravels.us\/?p=18023"},"modified":"2019-03-26T09:42:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T14:42:23","slug":"day-27-bangkok-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/?p=18023","title":{"rendered":"Day 27, Bangkok &#8211; Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our SE Asia trip had been quite an adventure. Three countries, four sets of bikes, four different guides and four support crews helped give us a varied perspective of each country we visited from their local customs,\u00a0 economy, religious views and political outlooks.<\/p>\n<p>All of ones senses are challenged here. The sounds, sights, tastes and environment conditions all remind you that, &#8216;We&#8217;re not in Kansas anymore, Todo!!!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Our touring company Spice Roads did a fantastic job handling all the logistics behind the scenes and providing such great staff, including Bo, our &#8216;travel concierge&#8217; from the headquarters office in Bangkok that we all dealt with so much before and leading up to the trip.<\/p>\n<p>It was also great having Daniel from Spice Roads along for part of the trip sharing his experiences of living in Thailand for the last 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>From urban to suburban to rural to jungle we had seen it all . . . but it was now time to head home. I missed Smoochie and the pup and it will be great to see them again . . . no more long trips without her. Of course, she will need to retire some year down the road first!!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18565\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/26-09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/26-09.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/26-09-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/26-09-768x422.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>. . . another reason I knew it was time to head home was that my fellow Wisconsinite, TommyH, was &#8216;going native&#8217; on me. He has REALLY enjoyed the cuisine along the way but the last morning when he had this deep fried crawdad, that look like it was crawling out of his breakfast bowl, I knew it was time to leave . . .<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18566\" src=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/26-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/26-10.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/26-10-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/26-10-768x947.jpg 768w, https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/26-10-830x1024.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>. . . and this letter from the manager of the Novotel, really cemented our leaving when we found there would be no liquor served today because of a Buddhist holy day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our SE Asia trip had been quite an adventure. Three countries, four sets of bikes, four different guides and four support crews helped give us a varied perspective of each country we visited from their local customs,\u00a0 economy, religious views and political outlooks. All of ones senses are challenged here. The sounds, sights, tastes and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/?p=18023\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Day 27, Bangkok &#8211; Chicago<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-se-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18023"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18769,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18023\/revisions\/18769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travels.wohu.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}