We are now settled into the Rex Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. We left San Francisco Airport at 5 past midnight Monday night (or Tuesday morning, depending on how you look at it), arrived in Taipei airport 15 hours later, spent 3 hours in the Taipei airport, flew 4 hours and arrived in Bangkok at noon on Wednesday. I didn’t realize we’d “lose” a day on the way here (Thailand is 15 hours ahead of California) but will “get it back” on the way home.
The Bangkok Airport is new since I was here in 2005 and very nice and very, very large. Largest single terminal airport in the world, we were told.
John and I joined our group of travelers – Gloria and Frank from Ventura and Nelson from Virginia – plus Sun, the driver and Kasma, our fearless leader, at the airport after some wandering around (the airport is new to us and it is large) and immediately headed out to lunch (it is a food trip!) at a restaurant that is very good and is inconvenient to reach from the city but is convenient to reach from the airport.
We’ll visit Bangkok tomorrow, starting with a trip to a near-by market for snacking and then a noodle shop for breakfast, and then onto the Grand Palace and other sights nearby. We head out of Bangkok early Friday going north, stopping at a floating market near Bangkok on the way.
Here’s a link to the itinerary for the trip http://www.thaifoodandtravel.com/travel/itina-2012.html.
On the Go with John and Jessie 