Comments on: Souvenir Spotlight: Thai Beer Can Tuk-Tuk

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:36:04 +0000

So you like to “ride the elephant” as a German guy I met liked to say? :)

By: Boris

Boris — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:25:05 +0000

This is brilliant!! Wish I would have seen that the last time I was in BKK. I wonder if they do a Chang version? A much better beer in my opinion :)

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:51:55 +0000

Given the amount of time you'll be traveling, I can't imagine you won't buy something you'll later deem silly back at home. :)

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:28:55 +0000

Dave, that is a great funny short story. I wonder how many times I have over paid for local gifts to bring back home.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:06:35 +0000

I think the bookstores in Thailand, esp Bangkok, are hard to beat! I read the biography of Anthony Kiedis “Scar Tissue” there, as well as several others.

Yes, the market photo was at night, and thanks for reminding me it was Pat Pong. :)

By: BlakesJourney

BlakesJourney — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:00:58 +0000

MBK CENTER! I got a mug from that place, I loved it so much. I like shopping a bit too. Thailand is a great place to do it. God, we bought so much stuff there. Plates, photos, shirts, photocopied books (lol). What I really love about thailand, and is so characteristic of the type of tourist that frequents it, are all the used book shops. I adore the idea of finishing a book on some beach and swapping it out for another. Love it! I think I read more during a 6 week period in Thailand than in my whole life combined (shamefully... seriously).

I never picked up a beer can tuk tuk, though. It would be a good memory because it doesn't fade or wither.

Nice pic of Pat Pong. I can't believe that's at night. It is at night, right?

Blake.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:08:31 +0000

Thank you Andy, I try. :)

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:08:02 +0000

haha, whoa, so you're saying there's a good chance I'll be holding onto my Thai tuk-tuk for a decade?

The scary thing I've gone to so much effort for it already, I can totally see myself taking it with me to wherever I move next.

By: Traveler

Traveler — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:03:26 +0000

OKAY – my last day in Australia – I was perusing the crap at The Rocks in Sydney and needed to blow what was left of my dollars.. and ended up settling on a propeller plane made out of a Victora Bitter can. WTF?!? I actually had that thing sitting around my house until just this past May when I moved and decided it was high time to throw it out (purchased June of 1998). Hehehe. :)

By: Andy Hayes

Andy Hayes — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:06:02 +0000

That is SO tacky. Well done :-)