Routing through Bangkok, Thailand for Cambodia
Trip Start
Feb 17, 2007
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Trip End
Apr 29, 2007
Bangkok,
Thailand
Saturday, February 24, 2007
The night before the trip was again, a frantic night of packing and writing down all the necessary information for the upcoming travel. Afterall, we are going to be away from anyone we know for about 2 months, not to mention that we will have 0 skills at communicating with the locals. After Joanna finished up with packing, I spent a few more hours writing down all the numbers, facts, contact info, whatever info that I can think of as being important down on a little note book. Clock was ticking, and it's getting really close to departure and I needed the sleep.
As always, things tend to go wrong after a trip has already started
Bangkok Airport
. Our arranged car service arrived at our front door promptly and Joanna and I loaded the 2 backpacks on the car and off we went. About 20 min away from home on the highway, I noticed that the most important item - the note book - has gone missing. I frantically searched my backpack did not find it. PANIC TIME! It was 7am, we are half way to the airport, and I didn't really want to call Rich to wake him up. "err, what to do?" I thought in my head. I had no choice but to call Rich, dug him out of his bed to see if he can find that note book in my room. Gladly, he found that the note book was sitting at the corner of my bed. I am sure my note book was wondering why I didn't take it with me for the journey, especially after hours of writing on it. Anyway, we politely asked the driver to turn the car around and head home to fetch the notebook. When we arrived at home, saw that Rich was right by the door with a plastic bag in his hand, I was relieved. At least I got the precious book back. Rich was very thoughtful and put a few extra pen, some "green bean" snack in there as well just in case if we were to get hungry on the way. You won't be able to imagine, those beans turned out to be the life savior later on in our trip. It was just amazing how did Rich figure out that we'll need those beans in the first place.
Huh? What is this?
Anyway, we grabbed the bag and asked the driver to shoot for the airport. Luckily, we had allotted more time so this little detour didn't cause us to miss out flight.
The moral of the story - if you were going to travel, try not to deprive your sleep too much. Also, check, double check, triple check, quatriple check to see if you've got everything before you leave your front door.
After checking in, and the usual hassle, we boarded, and the flight took off. A few hours later, we arrived at Thai international airport. From the air, it was a shiny, massive building with numerous planes sitting around it. I've gotta say it's hell of a nice looking airport. We didn't have too much time to spare exploring it. The first impression was that it was big but a little empty and no much to do - well, this thought was overturned at the tailend of our trip when we had to spend more than 10 hours at this airport.
J.
