Hey folks, this is Kevin. Hey, if you can hear sounds behind me, those are the sounds of Bangkok.

I am out on the streets and I'm researching what it might be like to move here later this year.

Now, where am I exactly right now? To tell you the truth, I have no idea. I got four Airbnbs for this

two-week trip so I could check out this neighborhood and then that neighborhood, and here's the deal.

There's a joke about Bangkok that's commonly told, which is the way they figured out the urban planning here was that someone dropped a plate of spaghetti on the floor and said, well, there's a plan.

So in the Airbnb that I just got today, oh, I thought I was so good about how I got it, because I chose a place right on Benjikiddy Park.

I thought, oh my God, I want to see what it might be like to live on a park, you know,

a street right across the street from the park.

But I didn't realize you have to zoom way, way, way, way in on those maps because of the

spaghettiness of Bangkok. There are so many side streets and so many alleyways and so many dead ends and so

many tunnels and so many sky paths that everywhere you turn you're getting surprises but it is so easy to get lost. Plus, everything has at least four names, right? There's

the official name of something, the nickname of it, the ancient name of it, and then an abstraction,

a poetic name for that thing. So if you tell someone the address of where you want to go,

everyone is just as confused as you are

to what that might be referring to.

So it turns out, I am in fact a 35-minute walk

away from Benjikitty Park.

I have to walk.

The Google map is showing me having to go through this side street

and then that alleyway and then way north of the park

and then turn a corner and go way south

because parks here are very, very walled off. They have very few

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