Another New Year: This one in the Tropics
We were home in Milwaukee for Rosh Hashanah, we were in Beijing for the New Year of 2023, and we spent the Lunar New Year (of the Rabbit) in Bangkok.
This was my fourth or fifth time in Thailand’s vast capital city, and let’s just say neither the traffic nor the official air quality has improved. However, perhaps because of the time of the year, most of our time in Thailand was less humid than previous visits in fall months and late February. Temperatures were mostly in the high 80s during the day, there was often a breeze, and being outside wasn’t nearly as oppressive as in the past. And, in truth, at least Eli and I actively tried not to run around constantly. We’d seen the major sites, we’ve bought all the Thai (or any Asian) stuff we ever wanted, I didn’t have business meetings as during my trips in the 1990s–it was vacation.