Tuesday, February 28, 2012

DAY 11 - CLOSE CALL



Danny and I took a baht taxi to downtown, just to see what we could see.  Had lunch at the Hilton with a great view of the water and beach.

Only a few of the parasailers....
There were over a dozen of them, with the boats zipping back & forth 

Returned to the condo and then ventured out again with Phil and Linda to check out the outlet mall east of here.  Guess we were getting a little over-confident with dealing with traffic here because when we left the taxi, we almost got taken out by a bus when we crossed the road.  We got half way across ok (3 lanes in each direction) but then we all looked right instead of left when we started crossing the last half of the road.  (They drive on the opposite side of the road here.)  A Thai man sitting across the road yelled at us so we all darted as fast as we could.  We will never take the traffic/road crossing for granted again!

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