Yes today is my freedom day! I get to leave this hotel after 14 days! So let's go get packed!
Hey, what is going on YouTube! Greetings from my final couple hours in my ASQ hotel. In a minute,
I'm gonna pack up all my stuff. I can't actually check into my airbnb till around three it's
around 8 30 9 o'clock right now so i'm gonna have some time to kill i can check out of this hotel
as late as 11 and that's when my taxis pick me up to take me over to my condo they said it might be
ready by one if not i need to run some errands i need to go get some toiletries things like that
so i'll take you along with me but first let's pack everything up real quick all right so it's
time to pack up i do have a packing video i'm not going to go too in depth on everything i got here
if you want to see what i carry in this backpack and what i've basically had for the last three
straight years of travel check out that video i'll link it somewhere up in here but i did want to
point out a couple things so i've been here for 14 days this is all i've really worn so these are my
dirty clothes i always talk about moreno wool and you know because i was stuck in this room
i just wore these three shirts they don't smell i wish i wish we had smell-o-vision and i could
prove it but that's why i love merino wool i wore a couple pair of shorts and underwear and i just
washed those in the sink i could have sent them out in the hotel they had laundry service but
i didn't feel a need to to be honest with you and i like to kind of practice what i preach
so we're gonna put these in a little bag here uh what else do we got here oh we've got
retired life problems formerly known as chocolate man in Thailand these are his sandals that i
bought over in Hawaii he wanted a certain kind he's a retired military like me so i went on a
base and i got them for him but i was happy to do that for him all right let's pack this stuff up
okay so this isn't the best and most efficient uh packing job i've ever done i could probably
it's in 30 liter mode right now i could probably take it down to 20 liter mode pretty easily but
i'm not going to i'm just going you know i'm not traveling on a plane or anything like that
so i'm just going to keep it in this mode and i'll probably be carrying it mostly like this
and then sometimes draped around my shoulder but let's go get some toiletries
excuse me oh yes check it out thank you
uh you have no idea how good it feels to be out of that room i've only been out to come downstairs
to uh take my covet test so this is the first time in what 15 days i'm gonna be outside and
i was in airports for two of those days too so i really haven't been outside for like 17 18 days
okay i think my thai elite car is out here so we're gonna check
hello
okay my first little bit of freedom that's my uh the car from Thai elite since i'm
aTthai elite member they are going to pick me up it's a nice little bmw
pretty sweet i'm storing my bag in there okay so the 7-eleven appears
to be closed so we're going to go to the family mart and get that stuff um
uh
okay so uh a gillette shaver a blade you know normal blade like three blade or whatever
uh a small sensodyne toothpaste and a small nivea deodorant was 141 baht which is a little bit over
four dollars and remember that's convenience store prices so it'd be cheaper like in a normal store
so you can kind of see the prices here you saw that coke it was 15 baht which is i don't know 50
cents maybe maybe a little less so yeah that's one reason i love Thailand all right let's go get into
the car and head over to where our hotel or my airbnb is so the cab ride was pretty cool it was
about 15 kilometers through the heart of Bangkok i was really really surprised how active Bangkok
was i thought because of the lockdown it would be abandoned i couldn't really show you because the
side windows were tinted i had to have this front angle but yeah i was shocked how many people were
out and about and how much hustle and bustle there was in Bangkok but finally we arrived at my condo
thank you sir have a good day
okay so i'm here um looks like they've got like
nice little places to sit hopefully it's okay um i might whip out my laptop and just go to work so
that's what i did i jumped on my laptop i actually edited this video
and it took a couple hours but eventually the other person was out they cleaned my room
and let me show you this building real quick it's a pretty cool building it's a new modern
building i'm actually up here on this fourth floor and that's where the pool is too so
that'll be great so here we go let's uh jump in here real quick for a little tour so you walk
in and you got the bedroom right in front of you it's two floor we're on the top floor right now
in here you got the uh bathroom a very very basic you know Thai style bathroom with a little shower
you got a toilet here you can't see it but there's a bum gun over there on the side of the toilet
people laugh when i say that you got to sink just a normal
normal bathroom nothing special then you got this little bedroom here there's a Paris motif which i
love i'm a huge fan of breakfast at tiffany's you see the breakfast at tiffany's over there
a cute little bed here uh this floor actually overlooks the pool got a nice tv here can't see
behind the door here but there is a closet and these windows actually open up so you can get a
little air which is pretty cool and you know it's hot as all get out this time of year in Bangkok so
i don't know how much i'll have that open but we've also got an ac up here there's actually
an ac on both floors i just pointed to the door that's a door to the bathroom from the bedroom
so you can access the bathroom from you know two sides which is kind of cool all right let's go
downstairs to i guess what would be the main floor there's all these cool like little plants they
have on the stairs it's just a really cutely decorated little condo here and down here is
the living room you've got the stairs here you've got some zodiac signs going up the stairs you got
a nice little tv here good wi-fi i did a little speed test i actually did another speed test
later it was faster but you know 60 down 40 up that's pretty good like i said it was a
little faster later when i tested it again got a little eating nook over here a little couch
it's not very comfortable but it's okay uh it'll work and then another ac that ac actually
blares the ac i'm recording this uh voiceover right now and i'm freezing because that thing
is so cold and we've got a big refrigerator by thai standards here uh which is pretty cool
and then a little freezer down here and you know just a normal kitchen maybe a little bigger than
a normal thai kitchen and then this was a nice little surprise there is a washer in here i didn't
realize there was a washer it's not listed in the airbnb ad but there is which is great
there's a little eat-in nook in here which is awesome and you can open this other side i'm not
able to get it open here because i hadn't figured out the locks yet but you can open that up and
you know have coffee in the morning get some fresh air that's also where you dry your clothes
no almost nowhere in asia comes with a dryer so usually dry your stuff outside so there's
that nice little drying area the best part i can walk right out here to the pool because of covid
because they have a lockdown right now all pools are locked down which you know sucks but i have
been spending a lot of time up here you can see the train there in the background that's pretty
cool i don't know if you can see that there's a bts station right over there but normally this
pool would look like this and i could just swim with the train going by it's very brooklyn-esque
kind of cool so yeah that's the condo this condo i got on airbnb for 360. for 32 days can you
believe that price what an amazing amazing price another reason why i just absolutely love bangkok
oh no
it's raining i guess we're gonna call this a video
hopefully you enjoyed me transitioning from quarantine hotel to my new condo here in bangkok
in the next video we'll go run around the neighborhood check it out
see what's going on see if bangkok really is as dead as some people say it is see you next video
is that thunder oh that's not the thunder
that's the bts their version of a subway all right see you next video