After joining the accounting firm Moss Adams in January 2019, Zhaoyang began taking the four parts of the CPA exams. Since she had been taking some time off at home prior to taking each of the earlier parts, but for the fourth part we decided to go to Thailand for the week so she could study during the day and enjoy great food and nightlife at night! We stayed at the Casa Vimaya Riverside Hotel which is in the Khao San Road area. The hotel had a great buffet breakfast and during the day the area was free for Zhaoyang to use to study (rather than sitting in the hotel room!)
During the day, I explored the city, although it was quite hot walking around! At around 4pm every day Zhaoyang would meet up for a beer then we would get dinner at one of the many awesome restaurants in the area.
Timeline:
- Fri, Oct 4 – Fly to Bangkok via Taiwan 1:30am EVA flight BR27
- Sat Oct 5 – Arrived BKK 11:15am – Checked in to Hotel around noon
- Sat – Dinner – Near hotel Jok Pochana Cafe
- Sun – Lunch – Yok Krok, Red Elephant
- Mon – Dinner – Met Brian and Family at Ariyasom Villa where they were staying for a few nights
- Tues – Explored the city, saw the Jay Fai restaurant (famous woman cook)
- Tue – Dinner – Khao San Road
- Wed – Order Blue Crab Papaya Salad delivered
- Wed – Beers and Zhaoyang had a massage
- Wed – Dinner at Magic thai food by Max (Permenantly closed)
- Thur – ZY spent the day at Nap Lab to study
- Thur – Dinner – Local place near hotel
- Fri – Dinner
- Sat – Left Bangkok at 11:40am arrived back in SFO at 4:30pm same day
We didn’t blog on this trip but I was thinking of adding some photos from the trip …