For those who follow international news, you might have heard that Bangkok, Thailand declared a state of emergency the other day leading up to their Presidential election in early February. Over the past weeks there have been increasing protests and some violence but it's mostly been contained to governmental areas and a few key intersections across the city. There is definitely a lot of uncertainty as to if it's going to escalate further in the coming weeks.
Knowing that my post-assignment vacation plans include a brief stint in Thailand, a few folks have asked me what we're going to do. The short answer is we are keeping a really close eye on the political situation and are going to wait until at least early February to make a decision on what to do. If the elections are held on schedule the protests may or may not dissipate, and if they don't dissipate, they may or may not escalate. Our vacation wouldn't put us there until the beginning of March so we're going to wait and see how things shape up. The majority of our itinerary is actually outside of Bangkok proper but we were planning on using Bangkok as our hub for the first week of our trip before we head to Cambodia. We purchased really good travel insurance so if we have to change anything on our itinerary that should help. Please keep us in your thoughts as we really had our hopes up to go to Bangkok so we are keeping our fingers crossed that there is some resolution that would make it safe for us to go as planned.
No matter what happens though, we will be going somewhere after my assignment ends - just not sure where!
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