Progress

.ggyWe survived our flights. We figured we we awake for basically 26 hours. Philip got some sleep on the planes. Me - maybe an hour between two flights. Korean Air was great. I read two books and watched five movies, ate decent vegetarian entrees and drank free wine. 

The airports are pretty cool - great architecture with of course, SEA decor.

Seoul

Bangkok

This is us as we awaited start of first flight.

We arrived in Bagkok in the wee hours of the morning. The Hotel driver was exactly where we were told he would be. The drive to the hotel was less than 15 min. This is a little boutique hotel. Very nice, clean, and great air conditioning. 

They served us an excellent breakfast, helped us purchase phone SIM  card from the 7-11 next door, helped us get to supermarket and then took us back to airport to exchange money and catch train for the city center. 

By following this map, we made it onto the train and then onto the subway. Saw our first monk in his saffron colored robe.

We made it to the downtown area of Hua Lampong. Our hostel is actually very nice and close to all means of transportation and lots of small street cafes. 

Sorry- poor picture and it isn't attractive from the street. But it is nice inside and the employees have good English. Last night they had Tango lessons in their small community room, but, alas, we onLy caught the last few minutes. 

Halfway Through our Trip

Ugh. We have made it the first 16 hours of our trip. We are sitting in the Inchoun airport in Seoul.  Korean Air is a very nice airline, so far. Plenty of leg room but the lady in the seat next to me slept much of the way hanging over her seat into my space. I did watch two movies and read a lot, 

Once we landed, we found the free transit passenger showers

 

We ate Pho and spring rolls and drank ion water.

Now we are at the gate. Philip is checking emails and letting our girls know we survived.

BTW, did I mentioned that our goal was once again to check no bags? So here is what we came with.

And here is our plane awaiting our boarding and travel to Bangkok. 

Now, let's see, I arose this morning at 5:00am. My watch says 3:01.... So that is 22 hours by my calculation. I got almost no sleep on the first flight; maybe I can get more on this next one.

Well, that's all for now. I'll write again from Bangkok.

On our way

Ok this won't be the most exciting post, but I'm practicing. Doing this in Bush International airport at our gate awaiting boarding. Check in was a breeze. 

Our gate. Hmm, we are the only tall people at this waiting area. Just saw the crew come into the area. All very cute and spiffy and looking alert and cheery. 

Ok we should be in Seoul 16 hours from take-off.

Planning for the trip...

Part of our trip preparations have been to make a list of the activities we want to do. Perhaps we should consider fishing? The grandsons caught this fish yesterday somewhere ink northern Thailand.


  

Another Adventure

To those of you who may have followed us on our trips to Morocco, we are now ready for another adventure. While we have travelled to some cool sunny places to go scuba diving, we probably wouldn't have ventured to Morocco or SE Asia if it wasn't for our youngest child and her family. So on January19th we board a plane from Houston and head first to Thailand (layover in Seoul) and then on to Laos by train. That is where Jenny and family live. We will tour some of Laos, then on to Cambodia. We return to Thailand and then back home.

I will try once again to post daily as we travel. Please feel free to comment!

THROUGH WIND, RAIN AND COLD

Thank goodness for blue tarps!! This is the side porch of the bell shop where we grind steel and "treat" the sails in acid. In the last 10 days, just in time for the Christmas rush, the weather has been sold, rainy and windy. So... out came the tarps to cover the steel and to block out rain and wind.

NEW SAIL

We made this sail for a one dot bell for a Christmas order. Just had to post it because I thought it was so cute!