Me and my camera in someone else’s home town, my SE Asia trip, my Bangkoknites
I mentioned before that Bangkok has a chronic traffic problem & at times it is crazy inducing bad. When we first arrived we got stuck on one of the main artery roads where our air bnb was and it took us half an hour to go 1 kilometre. The only way to really get around is on motorcycle taxis which slip through the gaps and actually move in a world of vehicular stasis.
Its actually a brilliant service and there is nothing like bombing around a city as exciting as Bangkok on the back of a motorbike. The only downside is if there is two of you, you have to get separate ones and meet at the other end, which is all well and good unless one of your drivers isn’t really a licensed taxi biker and doesn’t know where he is going so follows the other one which works fine until some old guy walks out in front of you without looking and you have to screech to a halt to stop running him over which in turn causes you to lose the other motorbike with your girlfriend on board who is now missing in Bangkok somewhere and their phone is dead and you can’t get hold of them and then you find out your two drivers have only just met and they can’t get in touch with each other either and all you are now doing as you wait in hope is compose in your head your impending conversation to the mother of your girlfriend trying to explain how you kinda mislaid her daughter halfway around the world in a crazy city & you don’t know exactly where she is. Yes, that did happen. Fortunately I never had to make the call as we were eventually reunited. We chose not to adopt that approach to travelling around the city again.