Owen Thomas, West Coast Editor at Business Insider, put together a lovely article on our annual offsite, complete with some great photos. I highly recommend you check it out! Link here. Thanks Business Insider and Owen!
Archives For November 30, 1999
Matt experiences a deadly sea urchin. Precious memories.
Well you guys, an update from overseas. We have spent the past week in Railay Beach. Its been incredible and to celebrate, we went snorkeling over the weekend! The picture above is probably the best picture of the trip, mostly because Matt is giggling like a school boy (our favorite cookies, BTW) and probably pooping his pants a little bit. Apparently that particular sea urchin is especially deadly.
Ready Freddy? JKruse looks like he is!
Tom. Perfect.
Garrett diving into the water! So much fun in the sun!
Bromance at its finest
Sky while at the beach BBQ
After I was awkwardly flowered and betrothed to our guide. Pure joy?
sand bar strolling
- Matt and our guide (also named Alex) jumping/missing legs
Pensive David
Work it Puneet!
David creeping on us.
Dinna Time!
Some magic tricks for our eerie boat ride back
The team
If you can’t tell, I am so in love. We had a great day. The setting was incredible, but more importantly, we have an amazing team of people who are making this journey so unbeatably awesome.
So its been a few days for us, and Thailand is incredible. While work has been about the same (it really is true, we can work anywhere there is internet!), being able to explore Bangkok during lunch is amazing. Truly an adventure and an awesome way to break up the work day.
There are lots of little excursions we have collectively gone on and I have tried to put together a few of these pictures. My personal favorite adventure so far: Wine bar. Keep reading for the story below.
Honestly the pictures below barely begin to encapsulate how much fun it is to just walk around and explore. The temples you stumble upon are incredible, the markets are eye opening and the company is delightful. Seriously, how is this real life?
Lost in Bangkok
Street decorations
- More street decorations
]- Right off the river boat into the heart of Bangkok
- Passing by on the river taxi
- Such cool clouds.
- Dark Alley
- Temple we weren’t allowed into because SOMEONE was wearing a tank top.
Fancy Wine Bar in Bangkok, maybe a little too fancy for us?
After mentioning a withdrawal from wine, David suggests we go to a wine bar downtown last night. Five of us cram into a 4 person cab, and it becomes very clear that communication with our driver is going to be an issue. With 4 of us uncomfortably squished in the back, David has the directions pulled up on his phone, but we still got out of the cab incredulous that we had made it (and severely cramped). When we get to the restaurant/wine bar (Opus, highly recommend it!) we realized we are considerably underdressed than the rest of the population. We had somehow wandered out of our hostel and its corresponding casual atmosphere into a beautiful, high end restaurant in which several of the patrons may have poo-poo-ed our obvious back-packing attire. Oops. Anyways in the background you can see the beautiful wine cellar they have where you can go hand select which bottles you would like to enjoy. We were also unaware that you were supposed to leave the bottle there and tell your server the bottle we preferred. We basically committed 8 faux pas in an hour.
Below are Shawn’s pictures from this market we wandered around. Saw a lot of weird stuff….
And below we have the Lumphinee Stadium for Muay Thai. Highlights? The stadium is not air conditioned and while it was pouring rain, several sections were shut down due to roof leaks. Oh, also, the violence. Two fighters left the ring in wheel chairs, one on a stretcher (that one made me cry) and one with his arm broken. While it was a little tooooo violent for my taste, I think the guys had fun [especially capturing pictures of me crying which will never see the light of day].
- Thanks JKruse for the idea…definitely a unique experience
- Thats all for now! Updates to come as we explore the beach.
- And finally, here we are, Day One at West Railay Beach.
The majority of the team has arrived in Bangkok. Today is our first official day of work for Offshore 2012.
Garrett leaked the information: we are going to Thailand this year.
Everybody is really excited. Some of us are so excited that we are already on our way.
We are all going to meet in Bangkok, before moving south. With more than 20 people going, it is our biggest offshore so far.
PS: the picture is a view of Hong Kong. My flight to Bangkok is doing a layover there so I took the opportunity to explore the city.