Airport lounge
BANGKOK AIRPORT
R has proven himself this morning - landed us in cushy lounge with unlimited cafe au laits, tiny sandwiches, banana chips and internet access. Would still be wandering duty free and contemplating Thai cookbooks, and paying for a coffee, without my outstanding travel partner. Had assumed these lounges were front of the plane people sanctuaries - to remove them from the rest of us - but egalitarian Bangkok Air has an enlightened outlook and we're all in here - the backpackers en route to Burma right alongside the enormous business men.
Bangkok a whirl and a dream and, for now, over. Promise to fill in details but for now am thinking Pnom Penh, thumbing our second hand Lonely Planet Cambodia and gearing for a Khmer Thanksgiving.
We will be arriving fresh, for now clean, and generally well pressed. A far cry from my arrival here - Bangkok excellent for overhauls. Almost too easy a city - hard to segue from the rough and tumble, story and a sensory assault at every turn of India, to the refined ease of Bangkok life. Clean, easy, obvious - might as well have been reporting from an Upper West Side Starbucks. Promise to be an intrepid traveler, fly headlong into the new and foreign, again soon.
Love to all, it's dawn in Bangkok.
C
R has proven himself this morning - landed us in cushy lounge with unlimited cafe au laits, tiny sandwiches, banana chips and internet access. Would still be wandering duty free and contemplating Thai cookbooks, and paying for a coffee, without my outstanding travel partner. Had assumed these lounges were front of the plane people sanctuaries - to remove them from the rest of us - but egalitarian Bangkok Air has an enlightened outlook and we're all in here - the backpackers en route to Burma right alongside the enormous business men.
Bangkok a whirl and a dream and, for now, over. Promise to fill in details but for now am thinking Pnom Penh, thumbing our second hand Lonely Planet Cambodia and gearing for a Khmer Thanksgiving.
We will be arriving fresh, for now clean, and generally well pressed. A far cry from my arrival here - Bangkok excellent for overhauls. Almost too easy a city - hard to segue from the rough and tumble, story and a sensory assault at every turn of India, to the refined ease of Bangkok life. Clean, easy, obvious - might as well have been reporting from an Upper West Side Starbucks. Promise to be an intrepid traveler, fly headlong into the new and foreign, again soon.
Love to all, it's dawn in Bangkok.
C
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