Author Archives: Shawn Stevens

Chiang Mai

By Shawn Stevens | Published: May 25, 2010
I spent ten days in Chiang Mai. The old city is the heart of Chiang Mai and is about two miles square looped by a road. It’s surrounded by an incomplete moat and there remains some of the old wall between the moat and the left lane of traffic (they drive on the left side). [...]
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Ayutthaya & Sukhothai

By Shawn Stevens | Published: March 31, 2010
The bus ride from Bangkok to Ayutthaya meanders North through endless Thai suburbs. Suburbs may be too generous; the homes are roughly permanent, but they are jammed together and sometimes seem squalid.  I work up a moderate sweat while trying to read. The AC of the old bus being no match for [...]
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Bangkok

By Shawn Stevens | Published: March 10, 2010
Bangkok is the largest city in Thailand and has about 9 million people. The city sprawls and merges with suburbs for what seems to be a fifty kilometers in every direction. Bangkok is more dirty, crowded, and busy than any American city. With the blacktop and tropical climate, the city is sweltering during summer (overlaps [...]
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One-Way Ticket to Bangkok

By Shawn Stevens | Published: February 24, 2010
A couple of months ago I was laid off. My first thought was: do I want to go to Southeast Asia or South America. Those areas of the world  had been calling to me for years: foreign culture, friendly people, good food, pretty women, and beautiful places. I eventually settled on SE Asia, because it [...]
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