{"id":225,"date":"2008-02-21T13:59:49","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T04:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matero.net\/?p=225"},"modified":"2008-02-21T13:59:49","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T04:59:49","slug":"day-250-vietnam-to-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"Day 250 &#8211; Vietnam to Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to visit some places in Hanoi such as Ho Chi Minh&#8217;s Mausoleum and the Temple of Literature, but I didn&#8217;t feel good enough to do anything like that. Plus I was running low on time and had to get to the airport. Today still feeling sick, dizzy, and not thinking clearly.<\/p>\n<p>I took a $2 shuttle bus to the airport. I wanted to exchange some of my Vietnamese money, but I didn&#8217;t notice any currency exchange offices inside the terminal. I was in pain waiting for the plane. I think I was cold, tired, hands were numb, headache. Even sitting down, I could not relax.<\/p>\n<p>The flight was on-time and only halfway full. Kind of nice because there five empty seats to the left of me all the way to the other side of the airplane. About 2 hours later, I arrived in Bangkok, Thailand. At the airport I tried to get my Vietnamese money exchanged again, but no one would accept it! I think I had about $60-$70 in Vietnamese Dong left, but outside the country it is worthless. I might as well throw it in the garbage. Here in Thailand, it was nice to see a 7 ELEVEN again after so much time in Cambodia and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p> I took a bus to Chanthaburi and the English school again where I can get some help with my illness. Once I arrived, they helped me to go a hospital just down the street. I think they said my temperature was 38.6 degrees Celsius (or 101.5 degrees Fahrenheit). They took a blood sample and I asked them to check for Malaria, but thankfully no malarial parasites were found. The doctor suggested I say in the hospital to be safe. But if I have a choice, I wasn&#8217;t going to stay in the hospital (especially for $200\/night). So I left the hospital with some medicine and might come back in a few days for a checkup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to visit some places in Hanoi such as Ho Chi Minh&#8217;s Mausoleum and the Temple of Literature, but I didn&#8217;t feel good enough to do anything like that. Plus I was running low on time and had to get to the airport. Today still feeling sick, dizzy, and not thinking clearly. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/?p=225\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 250 &#8211; Vietnam to Thailand&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matero.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}