For years my cousin David lived in the city of Chicago while I was living in the suburbs. Sadly, we never managed to connect in all that time. David recently moved to Thailand after he married a girl from Bangkok. And we of course moved to Hong Kong. Ironically, now that we are both on the other side of the world and living 1071 miles from each other, we made the effort to see each other.
After multiple emails back and forth and a tricky phone call on a Thai cell phone, we managed to finally meet David and his wife Benz on the platform of the train station. We rode Bangkok’s skytrain to the north side of town and spent the afternoon together at the Chatuchak Weekend Market which is supposedly Southeast Asia’s largest market.
It sure looked like it.
Although some of it's covered, it's essentially a sprawling outdoors bazaar and had just about anything a person could want.
We spent a pleasant afternoon shopping and getting caught up with David and Benz.
Fun, but it sure would have been a lot easier to coordinate a cup of coffee in a Starbucks back in Chicago.
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