It’s impossible to escape the fact that Bangkok is built on a jungle and that said jungle is trying to kill you. The temperature is in ‘the high 30s’ according to the locals and Matt’s American-educated mind runs through a quick conversion calculation. 35º Celsius would be 95º Fahrenheit, so today’s gonna be hot.
Matt takes another gulp from the water bottle he’s carrying.
It’s the last of his bottle, which means it’s time to find a 7-11 and get another one. That’s not hard to do, even down here in the Chinatown district, one’s never more than a block or two away.
The streets teem with gasoline-powered life and amid the cars, trucks, and motorbikes, a wandering pedestrian needs to take care. Channeling his inner Frogger, Matt hops lane by lane to the other side of the asphalt river and the air-conditioned 7-11.