The question of “when” Evo will be involved in a motorbike accident is definitively answered. Hopefully the question of “when” he goes to jail will remain a mystery.

As citizens of what is supposed to be the country with the best healthcare in the world, just how have we dealt with illness traveling the globe? That’s a question one of our listeners has, so we have to answer!

Instead of talking around our life in Bangkok, we’re going to talk specifically about it, walking through a list of 25 so called “rights of passage” that move you from tourist to expat in Bangkok. Yeah. We’ll see.

We finally had that classic Thai experience of partying with the Ricola people and every key influencer in SE Asia on a rooftop bar in Bangkok. And then things got weird.

We fell off the “responsible travel blogging” wagon this week, visiting one of Bangkok’s iconic dens of depravity. So much for the “sexy” side of “sex tourism”. [shudder]

One quick way to get deported from Bangkok? Have your mild-mannered international teacher cover story blown by those meddling kids.

Some days, living in Thailand is like living in paradise. Other times, it’s like the system is conspiring against us. So when an opportunity to screw with the system comes along, one of us is probably going to take it.

Exactly how many Thai governmental functionaries can Evo piss off in one day? About as many licks as it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Tootsie Pop, apparently.

This week: Bangkok’s best movie theaters have the worst popcorn. Meanwhile, professional traveler Gary Arndt island-hops the Pacific and gets the Prime Minister of Kiribati to reform immigration with one bad trip.