Travel & Life Vignettes
Our drive from Hua Hin to Bangkok was much like our drive there: an uneventful three hours. Same car, same driver. It’s multi-lane highway most of the way, until you hit the city. And there’s…
We arrived in Bangkok about 4:00am. It was a very long walk through the huge airport to immigration and baggage claim. We avoided the people movers and made a brisk walk of it, to get…
Helsinki was a short stop for us, just in case we didn’t get cold enough in Stockholm to properly appreciate the tropical temperatures in Hua Hin, Thailand, our next stop. We flew Finnair for the…
Our flights from Washington DC to Stockholm, Sweden, started off poorly. Our first leg was on Aer Lingus to Dublin, but they couldn’t get a crew together for their flight, so we ended up on…
The cold and fog of our early morning departure from Seattle reminded us why we tend to head south for winter. Heading to DC, though, is hardly the kind of south we shoot for, but…
Halfway to Costa Rica, hanging out at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, waiting for our delayed flight to board. Neither of us recall ever flying American Airlines before. Back-to-back late departures, five gate changes,…
Our approach to Kuala Lumpur took us over palm oil plantations that appeared to stretch to the horizon. Palm oil is primarily used in cooking, and most of what is produced is consumed by asian…
We arrived in Kota Kinabalu late in the evening and woke the next morning to much clearer air than we’d grown accustomed to while on the Indochina Peninsula. Our room at the Le Meridien looked…
During our approach to Noi Bai International Airport, we could see Hanoi’s air was pretty much as we had left it, some three years prior. Thinking it through, though, if we couldn’t see the air,…
We arrived in Luang Prabang, Laos, on a Lao Airlines ATR 72. The smallish French-Italian turboprop plane is the airline’s main workhorse, which isn’t surprising given the size of the country. It was a full…