Tag: Japan

pre-Bangkok paranoia

Bangkok customs line for the reticent.

Andrew and I arrived in Bangkok this morning at 05:30. There was some slight concern as to what our experience entering Bangkok would be like due to an interesting interaction I had with an airline employee. Don’t worry, it didn’t involve violence. Before our flight left San Francisco one of the girls at the Japan Airlines counter freaked out when she found out I had no Thai visa and a one-way ticket to Bangkok. She scurried around in her cute little semi-ethnic outfit until finally telling me that when I arrived in Thailand I might be denied entry. She followed that statement up with a question: Would you be okay with that? A new paragraph. How the fuck do you answer that? Will I be okay with paying slightly under $900 and spending 30+ hours in air/airports to potentially be…