So the whole trip was to take about 36 hours with some stops on the way. First leg:
Plane from Phuket to Bangkok. If you know anything about geography you'll realize that the fact that I went to Phuket for one dday, just to then fly to bangkok, is the stupidest thing ever, and only representative of the fact that sometimes planning things ahead ais a problem… in fact, most of the time, planning super ahead is stupid when backpacking.
I sat next to a cute asian couple with their little asian baby. she was wearing a weird denim dress with the batman symbol printed all over it. Even though the flight was only a little over an hour, they gave us a little lunch bag of some sort of bread roll and a little container of water [like an applesauce container that you have to peel back the metal to sip the drank.] before I knew it, we landed and I barely put a dent into my blogging priorities. it's slow on a phone.
After landing I ran through the airport, but to no avail since my bag was like literally the last one to come out. I was planning to meet Jacob at the MBK [major shopping center in bangkok] and time was running low. I jumped into a taxi after waiting on a hilariously long queue, and we were on our way. It took way longer than expected and I was nearly an hour late when I finally did make the run up to the 5th floor of the mall to find him at the cannon store. Sweet as though. For the nett 3 hours I missioned around the mall buying all the random crap that I figured I should take home after doing minimal shopping all trip. We then decided to go to that sushi place in the MBK that I described on my first trip to bangkok… the all you can eat place. We ate all we could eat, and I think I'm still suffering from the consequences of that excessive feast.
After I wasn't sure how long it would take to get to the airport [there were two different airports, so it was not the stupidest thing to go to the MBK in the middle of my layover… a tiny domestic one that I flew into, and then the inter national one that I'd be flying out of]. Decided the fastest would be to take public transportation/subway since it was saturday night, and I made my way onto the missed BTS, running and heading through 3 different different subways before getting to the airport. The last leg was the air train and on it i met a girl who was also flying into new york, but not on the same plane as me. We chatted for a way, and she was named amarisol… what a cool name. She was really interesting and allayed my stresses of arriving too late, but by the time I got there, I was early and had to even wait a bit before I could check in. After check in I wandered around the massive complex which is the airport and then settled in the gate, trying to charge my dead phone, before getting to korea whereI would have no suitable adaptor.
Second leg:
The flight was 7 hours or something… to be honest I have no idea… It was probably more like 5 because I got so confused with the time change, but on it [it started at midnight] I watched the movie 'the perks of being a wallflower' and couldn't properly fall asleep, passed the usual hallucination like sleep I had been getting. They ended up giving us breakfast before landing, and then I was in seoul, for a 2 hour layover. I found 3 seats at the gate I was in, laid down, and passed the fuck out. Like, I'm glad I woke up for the flight! That could've been a problem. This was the point that I realized that it was winter in korea, and I wasn't at all prepared. Dressed in a weird haremesque jumpsuit I was not prepared for the freezing gate more terminal and struggled a bit to keep warm, but at least that plane, and the next one, had blankets.
Third leg:
This time i decided [it was 10am, which would be 10pm in ny] i should try to get a proper night's sleep on the 13 hour plane ride to hopefully avoid jet lag. 6 valium spread out over the 13 hours didn't do much to keep me asleep, but I got a few bursts of naps during the tryp, separated by meal breaks where they woke us for lunch and dinner [they used real silverware and kept offering wine… overall a prett good plane but i reckon air new zealand was better], and then I'd chat to linus, the companion to my left for a while. He's studying at RISD and like the rest of the people on the airplane, was going back to school. The entire plane was filled with boarding school students and college students all going back to school. The ride took ages, but by the time I got back, it was exciting to run through customs [I was one of the few people with an american passport, so waited on a different line]. I went to the baggage claim and holy shit, my bag was lie the last bag, after waiting about a half hour of bag after bag…. Everyone seemed to each have 3 massive suitcases with them. I've never seen so many bags in my life, but the plane was a double decker and full of students.
Once I was out, I was on my way home before I knew it. Back to reality.
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