Tuesday was a regular work day although an unusual one. I had mass for the Missionaries of Charity in the morning and then spent a good part of the day at a police station trying to help a man who had been arrested and is faced with deportation. Then in the afternoon I hurried to finish packing and preparations for leaving. Then I had a 39-hour series of flights from Phnom Penh to New York City.

After a full and sometimes hurried work day, I headed to the Phnom Penh airport for the one-hour flight to Bangkok, arriving there at 9:30 PM. I found my usual place for sleeping occupied by a large group of Bangladeshi foreign workers so I slept on a bench in the A concourse and then at 4:30 AM went to this Gate D6 for the flight from Bangkok to Tokyo.

I flew Bangkok to Tokyo to Chicago to New York City without too much problem, just the rather common delays going through O'Hare airport in Chicago. In NYC I took a bus from LaGuardia Airport to Grand Central Station where I caught the train to Croton-Harmon and then a taxi to Maryknoll, arriving there about midnight. I had a room ready for me at the seminary building and the first thing I did was get my computer setup to download e-mail that had been disrupted the last few days by a Denial of Service hacking attack on the Maryknoll servers.

Maryknoll has quite a few guest rooms for Maryknollers coming here from around the world but this is the first time I have slept here in more than twenty years because I have stayed in the Bethany headquarters of the Maryknoll Lay Missioners during that time. Bethany has now been sold back to the Society, though, and the offices for MKLM moved to a renovated building on the Society campus.