Day 01, Thursday, 3/13/25, Traveling

Here we are again. Time to go. Do we have everything we need? Do we have everything we want? We wanted to travel with only Carry-ons, but, alas, everything we need won’t fit! So we pack up medium sized Check-in luggage and have a little room to spare for acquisitions along the way. Our good friend, Tony, drives us to the airport! I’ll have to put his name on a couple bottles of wine! Our flight leaves on Thursday at Noon. My seatmate on plane, Ernest, is from Los Angeles and is traveling to Tokyo to watch the Dodgers play in Tokyo! Why? Because he can, of course! Our first flight is from LA to Hong Kong, 16 1/2 hours! Ugh. Well, it’s a good thing I brought sleeping pills and a neck pillow.

I watch a movie and eat the first meal they serve. Typical airline food. Probably recycled out of cardboard. We have also paid for extra leg room and that’s a blessing in disguise. I take a sleeping pill and lay back. I manage to sleep for 7 or 8 hours by the time left to fly when I awake. A couple more movies and some more recycled cardboard to digest and we are landing in Hong Kong.

We manage to find our next flight and trudge through the airport in time to board our 2nd flight to Bangkok, Thailand. Another uneventful flight and we land in BKK shortly after 11PM. We get through Security and Customs without any issues and our driver is waiting to pick us up. But first, I need to buy a Sim card for my phone. It is just comforting to know that I can use my phone for GPS and the Internet without incurring high rates from my home carrier. So, for $8 USD I have a Sim card good for a week. I’ll only need it for 3 days.

The ride to the hotel was just short of one hour. By the time we checked in, we got into bed about 2 AM, Saturday Morning. That’s right, we left on Thursday. Where did Friday go?

See you all when we wake up!