The trip over...

27.06.2010

Ninety minutes after departing Indianapolis we were boarding our first connecting flight, a Boeing 747 at the McNamara terminal in Detroit, Northwest's world gateway. Sixteen hours later and feeling it, we were pushing back from the gate at Tokyo's Narita International for our third flight and final leg, the seven hour flight to Thailand. Nearly twenty eight hours after we had boarded our first flight in Indianapolis, we touched down at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Asia's tourist capital, the sprawling urban mass of Bangkok, home to over 10 million people. We cleared Customs and Immigration, exchanged a few dollars for Thai baht and headed to the airport's official taxi stand to queue in line to pay for our cab into the city. We reminisced the excitement of being back in Bangkok; but fully exhausted, we headed to our rooms for some much needed sleep.