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Mommy made it to Bangkok

Mommy got out Kathmandu, despite a strike, and is now in Bangkok:

Hi family, I am now sitting in our favorite email place just below Khao San
Rd. I left KTM today in spite of the general strike throughout the whole
valley. The students were protestiing the price of oil and wanted the
government to reduce it to last year's level. They called a general strike
last Sunday while I was trekking in Poky so I did not know about it. The
whole country was at a standstill. They called for another strike today and
all the shops , taxis, buses, cars were off the street. The only people
making it big were the rickshaw pyullers,and a few tuks tuks. I took a tuks
tuk to the airport of 200 rupee cos I asked a local in front of me how much
he paid. They were asking for 1000R.So I was glad to be able to get out of
KTM and even tho I was on the wait list I knew I had a good chance of
getting a seat. The whole plane was full cos a lot of Nepalis   were on their
way to work in Malaysia.The plane left at 2 pm and arrived BKK at around 7
pm. I did not have the notebook and no STeve ,so did not have the guest
house numb er. Fortunately, even tho I arrived at her place after 8 pm she
had a room for me and it was the same room that I had the last time and
facing the garden. I was very happy. The first thing I did was of course
took a shower and right away went off to the night market and ate and ate
and ate. Now I am doing email to you guys after the wonderful food of
Thailand.

posted by Li at 11:39 AM