It's around 4:30pm on Tuesday, December 21. I am sitting in a small Internet cafe just across the street from the Royal Princess Hotel in Chiang Mai. We arrived here just a few hours ago having opted to fly (one hour) instead of drive (six hours) or take the train (12 hours) from Bangkok. As Fate would have it, there is a Starbucks RIGHT NEXT to the hotel so I am happy, particularly having suffered through a few cups of instant coffee over the last few days. But still, instant coffee is better than no coffee at all, right? And this is also the first opportunity I've had to go online since arrival.
The flights from Norfolk to Bangkok went well, though the haul between Chicago and Tokyo was wretchedly long and tedious. We arrived around 10:30pm on Sunday night and had a very full day yesterday including a return trip to the airport late to collect our baggage which somehow was lost in transit. So as for a brief summary of recent events: lots of temple touring yesterday as well as just getting familiarized with Bangkok in general. Very interesting place, very different from Norfolk. Today we flew up here to Chiang Mai where we will spend the next couple of days (going back to Bkk on Xmas Eve.)
At any rate...I just wanted to fire off a qick post to let everyone know that I arrived safely and am having a great time thus far. I will try to update again first thing in the morning if at all possible.
4 comments:
...stop trying to update and go have fun! Altho we would love to hear about everything every day, we can be patient. Well...not really...but enjoy your vacation...while we freeze...and go to work...every...single....day.....
...spending money we barely have....slaving...over...bunson burners....blood what-ya-ma-call-its (Britt), snow blowers (Diana), books (Nik)...go have fun, Norm.....we'll be ok...(looking forlornly at the ground while kicking a pebble like Opie used to do on Andy Griffith)~sigh~
Kim: LOL. You're trying to make me feel guilty. Well it's NOT working. So HA!
Iain: Thanks for the comments. The delayed luggage was but a minor setback and if it never arrived, no big deal. All of my clothes were old anyway.
..would it help if I cried?
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