then where am I now?
The where is Bangkok. After figuring out that my cell phone is of limited use here and that the free wireless in the hotel is slow at best. I am figuring that the best way for people to keep up with me while in Asia is to use the blog. Here are a few of the important bits of the travel day(s).
It is nice to ride on "big" planes again. After lots of time spent on Regional Jets, it was kind of neat to be on the new Boeing 777. Both the leg from Atlanta to Seoul and the leg from Seoul to Bangkok where on these new jumbo jets. Even in economy class the leg room was sufficient. The service was very good. It has been a long time since I have been served a meal on an airplane (despite all of the miles I logged over the last four years or so), but all of the offerings were quite good. The downside is that with the new jets, the legs can be longer than they used to be. If you were wondering about the Atlanta to Seoul leg, that was direct, ok non-stop is the more accurate term. Direct is a bit of misnomer. Thanks to the individual video displays it is possible to watch a virtual flight path. Our route took us up I-75 then up past Chicago, Wisconsin, Duluth. You are probably starting to get the picture, we went North, very north. I set a new record for being north when we finally banked a bit west over the Northwest Territories of Canada. At that point it appeared that the flight plan was to fly north, wait for the world to rotate underneath us and then head south into Korea. We finally started making some headway west across the top of Alaska, across the Being Sea and then hugged the Pacific coastline of Russia. We swung east again as we past Vladiovastock, so that we were clear of North Korean airspace. A little turn south and finally our path took us almost dead west across the Korean pennisula into the Seoul/Incheon Airport. All told 15 hours and 27 minutes from take-off to touch down. I have been doing the 12 hour drive from Daphne to Noblesville fairly reguarly lately, but none of the drives wore me out like that flight. Five more air hours later I was on the ground in Bangkok. For those that are wondering. I left my apartment in Daphne at 3:00 AM Central Standard on Friday morning. I arrived at my hotel at the equivalent of 10:00 AM on Saturday morning.
My accomodations at the Radsion are quite nice. It is hot here (supposed to reach 100 F today), very hazy. I don't have anything special scheduled for today, although I do have some prep for the course to do sometime today.
The photo is the view out of my window early this morning. The interesting part is there is such a mix of hgh-rise and squat tenaments, and industry all so closely packed together.
I will be updating frequently while I am hear so stay tuned and please feel free to leave comments. Just click on the the small link that says "Comments" at the bottom of the post.
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Good luck getting people to comment...very few people ever comment, I have found...they will click on the email link like crazy, but they won't comment for public consumption. Except me. LOL.
Fascinating route you took to get there...did you ever wonder if the pilot was perhaps looking at the wrong destination or you were on the wrong plane??? Love the photo out the plane window...amazing with all that haze...it looks like a very modern city comparatively speaking...well, except for the multi-lane freeway at the bottom of the shot with two cars and one bus...maybe it was off hours...
It was early Sunday morning when that photo was taken. It is a completely different scene on a weekday afternoon/evening. So many cars, that you can not see the road.
Thanks for having the courage to post :-)
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