We've made it to Bangkok without to much incident. Meg's flight from SFO down to LA was delayed a couple hours, so I got to spend some time hanging out in LAX. Not as nice as I remember it being. Of course, when I was younger all it took to impress me was some Haggen Dazs. Now it's just sort of old, dirty and under renovation everywhere you look.
Lucie and Richie picked us up and took us to a seafood restaurant down in Newport Beach. Good food, outdoor seating on a beautiful day and a chance to catch up with friends. Very nice.
We got back to the airport around 7:00 and met up with Brad and Jenn a little while later. The check in line was massive and the airline only seemed to have a couple people working at any given time, so it took forever. We did manage to take in a college student from Florida though. She got into the line at the same time as us, but in a state of total panic. She thought she was late getting there had had problems with her rental car, and this was her first time travelling alone, let alone to a foreign country alone.
Our flight was delayed a bit. We could never figure out why, because all of the announcements were unintelligible. The flight, once we finally got on board, wasn't quite as bad as I thought. Though 17 hours is a very long time to spend in a plane. The seats were just uncomfortable enough to wake you up after a couple hours of dozing, but they fed us three times (Meg and Jenn had requested vegetarian food, so they took that to mean Brad and I wanted veg as well), and there were video games and movies in the seat back sets to pass the remaining time.
So now we're here at the new Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, hanging out in the posh Bangkok Airways lounge waiting for the flight to Seam Reap. The airport here is a definite improvement over LA. Clean, beautiful spaces, very wide open, with the exposed skeleton that seems to be in vogue these days. We've got a couple of hours until the next flight (Yay! more time on the plane) so we might do a little exploring. I'll post pictures when I can (no exposed USB ports on this machine).
Enjoy.
3 comments:
Mmmmmmmm... honey vanilla ice cream!
Eric, I know you are in your underwear, blogging from your basement. My question is: what have you done with Meg?
Eric, One thing to remember is that Cambodian electrons are slower and more laid back than the ones that you're used to in the US. Drink heavily before blogging and you should be in a frame of mind equal to their capacity to transmit your ideas. Glad you made the transition from Cow Pie to Pad Thai so smoothly. Keep us posted, dude! - DrC
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