I arrived to Seattle early Saturday afternoon, and it was raining. I love the rain, and I really love Seattle. After going to REI for a couple hours, where we didn't end up buying anything, the Franklins took us out to a delicous farewell dinner at a great steak house downtown. The next morning, I got a haircut, watched some football, and we were off to the airport. The first leg of our travel was a 12 hour flight to Narita, the airport outside of Tokyo. We arrived on the airplane, found our seats in the second to last row, and settled in. Sam unsarcastically remarkd that he was thankful that we had "great seats". Yes Sam, great seats. Second to last row, middle seat, with a kicking and screaming baby sitting directly behind me. I mean it could have been worse, I could have been duct taped to the seat and had someone smacking me in the face with a rubber dildoy, right? Anyways, it turned out it wasn't so bad. Each seat had its own personal tv with on demand movies and games, so I managed to pass the time by playing four hours of trivia against WKD in seat 15D (I went about .500 against him) , and watching some movies. I watched Harry Potter, which is kind of lame, and then, I unintentionally stumbled on what I know consider to be one of my favorite movies of all time, Mongol. This movie makes Gladiator and 300 look like Barney. It is the most G-ed out story of a Mongolian warrior who strives to regain power, and I recommend it to everyone out there reading this except for my mom and sister. After watching this movie, I not only decided that I want to go to Mongolia, but I want to be a Mongolian warrior.
Anyways, the flight passed about as quick as a 12 hour flight with no sleep can pass, and the next thing I knew we were on a 6 hour flight to Bangkok. I had the foresight to request an exit row this time, being 6'3' and sitting in seats designed for Asian people is not exactly what I consider comfortable. So this leg of the trip was sort of better, the trivia got redundant but I managed to sleep a little bit. We arrived in Bangkok at 11pm, and have spent the last 8 hours doing really nothing. We slept on some slanted cushioned benches under the bright airport lights for about half an hour, listened to some music for a while, wasted time at the Bangkok internet cafe, and played tackle football with my pillow (Sam and I both lost to the slippery floor). We met some cool people from Denver while eating sushi at around 2AM, and began to interact with some of the Thai workers at the airport. None of them really spoke English, and it was a lot of fun trying to ask them to translate certain phrases for us like "thank you" (which we got 4 different translations) and "have a good day" (the people just laughed). The exchange rate here is awesome; meals cost about 3 dollars, and we're at the airport. Sam and I are already being particular stingy about prices, we're deciding whether or not to buy items based on about 5 cents differences. Now there's Jewish cheap, traveler cheap, and then there's Jewish traveler cheap, which I think we're falling under the category of. My time is running out at the internet cafe so I must go, we have a flight to Hanoi in a couple hours so we still have some more time to waste.
Talk to you soon everyone, stay classy
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“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do - especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” - William Least Heat Moon
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