Time for Asia!

OK, I figured it might be easier to keep a blog of my trips, starting with this year's big vacation to Thailand and Cambodia.

Since I will have my cameras, camcorder, and laptop along I hope to be able to publish more or less in real time and let you know what I am doing and seeing. We'll see if it's really that simple. One issue may be how good my internet connection is and how much energy and time I have to edit and post photos and video clips. But I will try.

The itinerary:
7 Nov - depart Washington (Dulles) on All Nippon Airways flight 001
8 Nov - arrive Tokyo (Narita) and sit around for a couple of hours before boarding ANA flight 915 to Bangkok arriving around 11 PM! Then off to the supposedly fabu Sukhothai Hotel for a shower and some sleep.
9 Nov - a free day to get reacquainted with Bangkok. I expect I will head to the major shopping area as there is supposed to be a concert event of some sort at Central World mall
10 Nov - FAT Fest #7 is here! Should be a fun event, 5 stages, tons of bands plus booths and merchandise
11 Nov - more FAT Fest including three of my most favorite bands Supersub at 3:00, Armchair at 3:20 and ModernDog at 6:10.
12 Nov - a free day in Bangkok
13 Nov - an early start as I head to Nakhon Ratchisima (Korat) province for a 3 day trip to see old Khmer Empire temples and sites in that area
14 Nov - Korat
15 Nov - Korat and return to overnight in Bangkok, and hopefully see ModernDog play at Central World
16 Nov - an early morning (7:40!) flight to Phnom Penh, Cambodia
17 Nov - another day in Phnom Penh
18 Nov - a morning flight from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap, Cambodia to see the great temples of Angkor Wat and the surrounding area
19-22 Nov - more time visiting temple ruins and other places of interest
22 Nov - back to Thailand and a few days at Pattaya to hang out at the beach and just chill out. Hopefully no food poisoning this year!
23-25 Nov - more time in Pattaya
25 Nov - drive from Pattaya back to Bangkok and a stay at the Triple Two Silom hotel to close out the trip
27 Nov - A day trip to Lopburi
28 Nov - another free day to round out my Thai time. One last trip to DJ Siam? Siam Paragon luxury mall? Central World one last time?
29 Nov - early morning (again!) flight on Thai Airways to Tokyo arriving 4 PM and then overnighting near the airport
30 Nov - a not so early morning flight (11:10 AM) from Tokyo on ANA flight 002 arriving home around 9:30AM...so we land before we took off by the magic of the International Date Line