Has
it been 18 days already since I landed in Bangkok around 10:30 at night Aug 23?
It all started with a marathon 24-hours of flying -- starting from
Newark, 6+ hours to San Francisco then on to Seoul for a 13 hour flight and,
finally the Bangkok leg of about five + hours. It turned out to be the longest day of
sunlight in my life as the plane's computer display showed sunset had already
overtaken New York -- and we were only about a third of the way across the
Pacific. Then, before you knew it, the rest of the U.S. had gone dark and then
Hawaii and Alaska. Finally, somewhere over China, I looked out and saw darkness
had finally descended on my “day”. It wasn’t too long, however, before lights from
a sprawling Bangkok filled the cabin windows and then the long journey came to an end. Fortunately, the journey immigration and customs was much quicker and then it was on to officially start my seven-month walk about in Southeast Asia.
