Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Off to Southeast Asia!

I'm leaving tomorrow morning for Thailand and Vietnam for three weeks! Keitlyn and I have a painfully long 11 hour flight to Seoul where we have a slightly scarily short 1 hour layover in which to make our next flight - 5 hours to Bangkok. We land at 9:45 pm August 28th Thailand time, hang out/pass out in Bangkok for a night before flying to Siem Reap on the afternoon of the 29th. There we'll hang out at Angkor Wat for a day - and I'll meditate in a temple! - and fly back through Bangkok to Ko Samui (a southern island off the east coast of Thailand) on the 31st. We'll hang out there for about five days, maybe ferry back to the mainland if it suits our fancy, and then back up to Bangkok on the 5th. Late night on the 6th Uncle Michael arrives and on the 7th we'll meet him and head over to Pattaya for a couple days so UM can nerd out in an enormous botanical garden and Keit and I can ride an elephant. On the night of September 9th, I say goodbye to Keitlyn who will head back home while UM and I head to Hanoi where we'll make our way down to the coast. I fly out of Saigon early on 9/17 (before the crack of dawn even occurs) and get back to Seattle that day at 11:20 am. Mom or Jane, one of you better be waiting for me as I will have been traveling for 24 straight hours (9 hour layover in Korea alone - I'll have to get creative....).

I'll try to keep this blog going while I'm gone so that you can all keep up with my adventures. See you in September!

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Have fun. I just flew in to Seoul. Inchen is a very nicely run airport.

Unknown said...

Ko Samui is where my roommate always goes to hang out a few weeks each year -- have fun!

Lauren said...

Laura, my twinsie - my love. Have a wonderful time!!! I can't wait to see you once you're back and I'm finally living in Seattle again. Happy blogging...I'll be reading =)