We made it, whew! We successfully navigated the last 24 hours and ended up arriving in Bangkok in one piece, stayed in the country for approximately 8 hours, and are actually leaving for Cambodia this morning. We spent a wonderful night in the newly opened Marriott Courtyard Hotel (good use of points!)- actually, it was more like 4 hours to sleep / shower, the night staff were still there when we left at 5:30AM, kind of a weird experience.
The taxi ride from the airport last night at midnight was the most white-knuckle experience of our lives. Speed limit on major motorway: 80kph, speed limit of our taxi driver: 150 kph. We would have asked him to slow down, but he didn't speak much English and my Thai isn't quite useful. We have ALMOST mastered "thank you"- almost.
Now we fly out to Siem Reap, Cambodia for a few days, and then we'll be back to Bangkok after that. It took us 3 months to see two countries previously, now we'll see 2 countries in 2 days!
We are in an airport lounge (free to international passengers) and I have a couple of interesting things wrapped in banana leaves- haven't had the courage to open them up.... actually, i don't know how to eat them so am waiting for someone that looks like they know what they're doing to copy them. Good news is they serve good ol' filter coffee. Yay!
It's time to figure out the "breakfast" food- Steve just got back so hopefully he can help.... wish us luck!
Anna
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