We meet at Mountain Christian Church at 7:30 am. We load a van with eight people and another van with 16 pieces of luggage and carry-ons. After prayer with family and friends, who came to see us off, we leave at 8:00 am from the parking lot.
Dennis Curran driving and Min Thike navigating we weave through traffic on our way to Dulles International airport.
When we arrive Jim converts the money we need for Thailand into Thai Baht. We have several thousand dollars to exchange. He is told that he will take all the Thai currency that is available in the local exchange. They are giving him all the denominations that they can scrounge.
We begin to hear our flight called. We walk quickly (it was a long walk). At one point Jim begins to run to the gate to make sure we are not left behind. (Earlier Jim had teased us that we were being diverted to Africa – so we kept up.) All was well and we were not the last to board. Another passenger was being paged after we were seated and settled.
The adventure begins as we take off for a 14 hour non-stop flight to Tokyo. Some slept and some did not. Needless to say it was a long flight. Those who could not sleep watched three “B” movies.
We landed in Tokyo at 4 pm local time on Friday Jan. 29th (which is 2 am. Friday Jan. 29th in MD.) We have approx. 2 hours before we depart for Bangkok. It is an 8 hour flight. OH JOY!
--- The Thailand Team
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Yay! Praying for continued travel safety!
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