4am
Wake up and get on a bus to the airport
8ish
Fly from Santo Domingo, Rep. Dominicana to Miami, USA
4 hours later
Fly from Miami to Los Angeles
Land, wait for the rest of your squad
Eat too much of the wrong food right away, use the restroom
4:45pm
Rest of your squad gets in to LAX, share serious and hilarious
travel stories
5:15pm
Hop that shuttle to your sweet hotel (thanks Dixie!)
Hang out all night in LA, get a package from home (thanks
Mom and Dad! Love you!), go to dinner, Target, and R.E.I. thanks to a teammates
mom’s great friend (thanks Mara!), get back to hotel, do laundry in a real,
live laundry machine/dryer, doze off a few times, but don’t sleep
8isham
Be at airport to catch flight to Bangkok, Thailand
11ish
Board plane to Bangkok, estimated 20 hour flight
Some time later…
land in Tokyo, Japan to refuel, get the first sleep you’ve
had in a long time
Two hours later
board a plane from Tokyo to Bangkok
12:30ish am
Get to Bangkok, get all your stuff, go through customs and
immigration with your 50 closest friends, load all your stuff and yourselves
into the back of some pickup trucks (w/ benches and a roof), drive to YWAM
(youth with a mission) Thailand base
1:45ish Go to sleep
7 am Wake up,
find breakfast at gas station in Thailand, eat, throw all your junk on two
sweet double decker buses, drive to Thai/Cambodia border
10am Cross
border into the Kingdom of Cambodia, eat lunch, wait for buses to Phnom Penh
2 or 3 pm? Board
buses to Phnom Penh
Late at night…
arrive in Phnom Penh, promptly go to sleep w/out covers, cause it’s
dumpin’ hot!
It is now Monday, most of us arrived on Friday night, and
the entire squad is now here as of Sunday night. We are all safe and sound, and
will be starting ministry soon. Our travel from Santo Domingo to Phnom Penh was
clocked at just over 81 hours, and we thank the Lord that everyone is here and
safe. One team, Spectacle, has already departed this morning for Siem Reap, so
you can pray for their safe travels.
Traveling is good, but it is filling!
Side note, Cambodia is growing on me at an exponential rate,
and there will be more blogs this month, as internet should be available. Talk
to you soon!
