Let the hurdles begin

We got to the airport early so that we could ensure that we would get seats together (for some reason we were able to reserve Amanda's seat but not mine). After several exclamations of never having seen anything like this before, and several phone calls, we both had seats - unfortunately not together. Once on the plane, we began trading with the people around us to get our seats together. For a 15-hour over night flight we figured it was pretty important. Once we had successfully traded, along came other people who claimed to have the exact same seat as both of our original seats (though now there were other random people sitting there). After much fuss and shuffling and a stroke of luck, we somehow ended up in the exit row - next to each other.
I took a sleeping pill, Amanda didn't... they work. I woke up a good 10 hours into our flight. The rest of it went by without much of a hitch though I did feel groggy from the pill.

We transferred in the Taipei and again in Hong Kong. Taipei not so nice, Hong Kong beautiful - the airports I mean.

From Thailand

We arrived in Bangkok at last at around 2PM (+2 days). Let me tell you that we weren't really prepared to be sleep-deprived, semi-drugged, hungry, and disoriented in a country where we didn't speak a work of their language. Thanks to some excellent directions from my brother Aaron we made it to our hotel.

We grabbed a map at the hotel lobby and did our best to stay awake until night time. We needed food and to get our bearings so we set out on our first adventure. After about 20 minutes of complete and utter disorientation, fatigue, hunger and sheer panic at crossing the road and seeing the cars screaming towards us from the wrong side of the road we made an important discovery. The brilliant map-makers decided to include a blow-up to show more detail of the area we were in. However, in the blow-up part, North was towards the right of the map, while in the non-blow-up part North was at the top. *Bing* a light went off in my head and it suddenly all made sense. The "lost/disoriented" feeling was gone.

From Thailand

We found a restaurant the was recommended by our guide book. They had amazing curry - like nothing I have had in the States. We bumbled around until dark, and started making our way back to the hotel, nearly getting hit by cars as we continually checked the wrong direction (they drive on the left). I think we made it until 8PM.