Bangkok is a whirlwind of automobiles, buses and people.
Provocative billboards five or six stories high advertise the latest in sex and violence movies. It is so hot and humid here that sitting in an air-conditioned movie theater may be the most sensible pastime available.
The people are small and seem vivacious. Many of the young women are very attractive to me and they seem to like foreign men like me—probably because so many American military men have been through here with plenty of money to spend.
In the few days I am in the city shopping for the cheapest plane fare to Hawaii, I see several movies, visit several exquisite temples and watch one of the Asian Cup soccer finals. (South Viet Nam lost…and the USA war just ended. America lost too in South Viet Nam!)
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