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| A plane that may or may not look like the one I traveled on |
Wednesday, November 16, 2016 - Friday, November 18, 2016
The travel schedule seemed daunting. We would leave Los
Angeles late Wednesday night, with a 14+ hour flight, a 2 hour layover, and a 4
hour flight to the final destination, where it would be 10 am Friday morning when
we landed.
I was afraid jet lag would derail the Thailand part of my
trip, so my goal was to get enough rest on the flight to avoid napping on
Friday in Bangkok, and get myself into local time as quick as possible. To do
this I was (almost obsessively) trying to keep Thailand time zone in my mind from
the moment I left LA. This meant forcing myself to watch movies instead of
sleeping after getting on our 11pm flight, even though it was well past my bedtime
in LA. I even limited myself to one glass of complimentary wine and saving my
coffee intake for the 2nd flight to better align my body with the
right time of day.
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| Hurray movies! |
For whatever reason I was in the mood for some cartoons, so
I watched The Secret Life of Pets and Finding Dory the first night. I added the
more mature Independence Day 2 to the list after my first nap. Between three
movies, strategic resting, and a couple of meals, the time moved along quick
enough for a 14-hour flight. We landed around 6 am Friday morning.
Oddly enough our layover was in Taiwan. We were only there
for a little over an hour before our next boarding, but Steph still made quick
work of some Taiwanese food while we waited.
Our flight to Bangkok departed around 7:45 am Taiwan time,
and was a little under 4 hours. One the
2nd flight I started chugging coffee and reading up on Thailand. And
before we knew it, we were there!
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