Philip Fibiger

Em and I just got back from our trip to Thailand. We spent two weeks at Amanpuri, an incredibly swanky resort on the island of Phuket with 3 of my cousins and their wives/girlfriends. Through the generosity of a very wealthy parent of one of my cousin’s wife’s students, we stayed in a stunning 5 bedroom villa at the resort with with our own full-time chef and usually 2-3 housekeepers. I can’t really describe the intense level of luxury at this place, I think you’d do better to check out the photos. Most of the photos are from Amanpuri and Phuket, a few are from the last two days that we spent in Bangkok.

We had custom suits tailored ($199 for 2 nice wool suits perfectly cut, 2 custom dress shirts, and 3 silk ties), went on an elephant trek, saw temples in Bangkok, and ran around the island on our ridiculously underpowered $4/day motor scooters, but mostly we hung around the private pool(s) and drank a lot of beer. And ate world class thai food. And sometimes had massages at the beach. It was worth every minute of the 36 hours of travel hell that it takes to get from Los Angeles to Phuket, and then some.