Traveling from Nicaragua to Thailand was the longest experience I have ever had. I literally felt like I was living one long day with multiple naps, which actually added up to be about four days I think. You really lose count after the second 12 hour layover. I want to share with you my days of travel. Most times are estimates because I turned into a zombie after Atlanta.
Started January 4, 2012
This is all in Central Standard Time
4:00am …wake up
4:30am …Start moving groups with horse and buggy to ferry canoe
7:15am …leave on a chicken bus (a school bus with chicken racks on the ceiling, usually used for bags)
10:00am…arrive at airport in Managua, Nicaragua
1:30pm …board plane
5:35pm… plane left airport (a pipe needed to be repaired because they were throwing our luggage, go figure)
This is in Eastern Standard Time
11:00pm…arrive in Atlanta (about a 5 hour plane ride)
12:00am…arrive at hotel that we were blessed with by an anonymous donor (with Chik-fil-a!!!)
4:30am …left for airport full of Christmas cookies, clean, and on no sleep
7:40am…plane left airport
This is in Pacific Standard Time
9:00am …landed in LAX
10:00pm…plane left airport
This is in Korean time
5:30am …plane arrived in Seoul, South Korea (about a 13 hour plane ride)
6:00pm…plane left airport
Thailand time
9:30pm…arrived in Thailand
Ended January 7th, 2012
We then took a covered wagon type truck with all our luggage piled high to a YWAM base about 40 minutes away. We had two days in Bangkok, one to sleep (which we used to go to the awesome market) and the other as a cultural training. On the second day after training we took a awesome bus with reclining seats on an overnight bus for 11 hours. We are now in Chiang Rai!
