In Thailand, a bpai tiao is a trip of any length. I’ve written about some of my more significant bpai tiaos to tourist destinations here, to be used as travel ideas and tips.
It started out as something that was really only marginally interesting: one of my host sisters has just finished high school and was going to Chaiyaphum to register for university to study nursing. Chaiyaphum is about an hour from where I live. So we all loaded up into someone else’s pick up truck and made our way there. We all being Gee (my 18-year-old host sister), Geek (my 12-year-old host sister), my host mom, the man who owns the car, an “aunt” and me.
