Bangkok
is alive. We boat on the rivers. The urban motorboats drive very fast. There are always two people crew, one person in the wheelhouse, the other gives signals with a whistle for docking maneuvers. Our last ride on a express boat was even faster. The driver had probably planned to ruin the thing completely in one day. Always full throttle, the 140 hp diesel exhausted, big clouds of smoke full jug to the pier, then backwards, the rudder extremely in the opposite direction smashing the boat against …