Day Zero: Planes and More Planes

Three (out of eight) of us started out the trip from Newark Airport in New Jersey. It's a moderately sized airport and that's where we took one of the very large planes north, over the Arctic, to get to Japan. This was about 16 hours of flying. The flight was okay but far too long. We were following the sun going west/north so it was daylight outside the entire time. They kept the windows closed for most of the flight in order to fake it being night so we would be adjusted to Japan time. I tried to look out the window but it was way too bright out to see anything, plus I was sitting beside the wing. When we were landing I could take some pictures of the Japanese countryside. The food on the flight got progressively worse as we went.

We landed at Narita Airport in Tokyo. There's a lot of interesting stores and such all around there along with a few cafes. It's very large and there's several terminals separated by huge underground tunnels with moving sidewalks. There was a four hour layover so the six of us, having met three other REU students here, hung out and waited for the next flight there. It was more or less the same as the last flight but only six or seven hours this time. I slept through most of time.

By about 12 am we ended up at Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok. It's huge and is built with glass walls and ceilings everywhere. From there we took vans to Chulabhorn Research Institute where we are staying. The accommodations are like a hotel and we're paired up two to a room. We haven't been spending much time at the residence lately since we're out at the universities from eight to six.


Four Days of Pictures:
Album 1
Album 2
I haven't had any time to go through them and take out blurry ones. And there's more when I can take them off the phone.