Today was a 36-hour day, starting off with a 6:00 AM departure from Bangkok and ending with an 8:00 PM arrival in New York City--after crossing the international date line and flying 25 hours between those two events.

From Houston, it was another 3.5-hour flight to New York City's LaGuardia airport. There I got the NYC Airporter bus to Grand Central Station in Manhattan. I just missed a bus as I bought a ticket from the young woman on the right in the photo and had to wait another 20 minutes or so for the next one. From Grand Central I caught a train to Ossining, and there I got a taxi from the station to Bethany, the home of the Maryknoll Lay Missioners.