Travel plans - Connecting the dots

Ever been bitten by the Journeyman bug? Felt a wanderlust that washes over you like a tidal wave when you look at countries and ..... oh well, I get that, and mostly a Journeyman'esque desire to connect the dots in maps.

My recent fixation is on South East Asia (me being in India, all the more reason to think that it's do-able), after a good friend of mine visited Bangkok. Well, as usual I pulled up this map in Google and what do I see, countries dotted together like states in our country. In India, I've travelled about 8-10 states & its major cities ...... Been to Mumbai, Delhi (passed through... caught glimpses of the touristy things), Chandigarh, Patiala, Ambala, Silvassa (Daman- although only for a party, so can't call that really visiting!), then being more of a southie... travelled all states and cities in south - Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mangalore, Ooty, Cochin, Palakkad, Yercaud, etc etc all the way down to Kanyakumari.... wait, how could I forget Andamans - yep, been to Port Blair and other mini islands as well.....
Well, while searching for articles on Bangkok, came across so many blogs, travel logs and memories of people, captured so vividly and for a point - a point of sharing it so that many such prospective travellers could benefit from it. Will make concious efforts from hereon to share many such little tidbits which could be a starting point for many. One pain point is that I'm not as meticulous or as organized as these fine bloggers, but not making excuses - will definetly work to share travel logs in future.

Back to the topic of connecting dots - Bangkok. Travel costs are as low as Rs.16-20k to it from Chennai/Mumbai. Well, my friend ended up spending about 30-35k for 5 days and was very upbeat about the overall travel & stay. Me being me, pulled up the map, and was working out the incremental costs to 'connect the dots'...still dont get it??? look left, right, up, down to Thailand and you'll see what I mean!!! Thailand's neighbours include, Laos, Myanmar (not planning to travel there), Cambodia (definitely on - Angkor Wat), Vietnam??-maybe, but pushing it too east, Malaysia, Singapore.. connect this and i'm up with a mammoth cost of close to a lakh. Still trying to work out the math, number of days for this trip and the logistics (need multiple entry travel visas for some countries...etc etc). More importantly got to save up enuff moolah to cough up in thai bhats!