{"id":6265,"date":"2019-10-19T05:40:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T12:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=6265"},"modified":"2019-10-19T06:10:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T13:10:07","slug":"two-wheeled-thai-taxis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/10\/19\/two-wheeled-thai-taxis\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-Wheeled Thai Taxis&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6271\" src=\"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC4460-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC4460-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/DSC4460-600-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen a lot of interesting things in the world, and I&#8217;ve seen some really interesting things in Asia.\u00a0 Mind you, all this is filtered through the mind of an East Coast boy who really didn&#8217;t get out of Dodge until he finished college, but boy oh boy, I&#8217;ve sure covered a lot of ground since then.\u00a0 And I&#8217;ve covered a lot of it on two wheels.\u00a0 And because of that, I&#8217;ve always been intrigued by how other people in other countries use their motorcycles.<\/p>\n<p>One of the wilder things I&#8217;ve seen is how small motorcycles do duty as taxis, and in particular, how they do so in Thailand.\u00a0 One night a few years ago I was wandering around in Bangkok, one of the world&#8217;s more sultry and exotic cities, and the action on a typical street corner just off Sukhumvit Road (one of the main roads through Bangkok) was both mind numbing and mesmerizing. \u00a0 I recorded about 10 minutes of it.\u00a0 Sit back, grab a cup of coffee, or Scotch, or whatever floats your boat, and enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZoxezPq4SFI\" width=\"724\" height=\"407\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One of my good buddies who lives in Bangkok owns a couple of small bikes and he invited me to tour Thailand. \u00a0 I&#8217;m tempted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen a lot of interesting things in the world, and I&#8217;ve seen some really interesting things in Asia.\u00a0 Mind you, all this is filtered through the mind of an East Coast boy who really didn&#8217;t get out of Dodge until he finished college, but boy oh boy, I&#8217;ve sure covered a lot of ground &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/10\/19\/two-wheeled-thai-taxis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two-Wheeled Thai Taxis&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[89],"tags":[905,904,903],"class_list":["post-6265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle-adventure-ride","tag-motorcycle-taxi","tag-taxi","tag-thailand"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6265"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6272,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265\/revisions\/6272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}