Phnom Penh to Bangkok As happens for most of my US trips, I needed to take an evening flight to Bangkok and stay in the Bangkok airport overnight and catch a United flight first thing in the morning. Phnom Penh now has a really nice little airport, which is about to be enlarged. One difference in Phnom Penh is the larger number of staff working to check in customers. Bangkok Airways calls itself "Asia's Boutique Airline" and has always distinguished itself by offering a lounge for economy passengers. Just recently that lounge was drastically reduced in size to this venue which only seats about ten people comfortably. Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport is new and modern but has some irritating weaknesses like poor signage. If you were going to Concourse E, which direction would you go?

Bangkok to Maryknoll, NY I slept overnight in the Bangkok airport and left at 8:00 for Tokyo, then Washington, DC, then New York City. My favorite sleeping place in the Bangkok airport is on the B Concourse where they have these padded seats--without arms! If I get there early enough, I take the backside of the last row of seats, sleeping on the side by the flowers. Often, though, a large group of foreign workers from south Asia is spread all over these benches and I have to go elsewhere, but this time I was lucky. From Bangkok we went to Tokyo and then another 13+ hours to Washington, DC. I only had 45 minutes between flights but after being the last person to board the flight to New York City, they pulled the plane away from the gate and then parked us out here on an apron because high winds in the NYC area were disrupting air traffic and they wouldn't let us take off for one and a half hours. Finally I got to LaGuardia in NYC and took a bus to Grand Central Station and then the Metronorth train to Ossining. I arrived later than planned and was really worried about getting a taxi (they don't operate after 10:00 PM) but after standing out in the freezing cold for fifteen minutes and deciding to start walking to Maryknoll, a taxi came out of the dark and took me to the Maryknoll campus.