The trip back was long. I left Louisville on Monday and stayed that night at the Maryknoll house in Manhattan. Tuesday morning I flew LaGuardia to Chicago to Tokyo to Bangkok, arriving in Thailand Wednesday at midnight. Thursday morning I flew to Phnom Penh.

Monday afternoon I left Louisville on American Airlines. I was supposed to be on US Airways through Charlotte to NYC but that flight was delayed so they rerouted me nonstop from Louisville to LaGuardia, on their partner American.

It was dark when we arrived in New York City. This is northern New Jersey as we made our approach.

Tuesday morning I flew LaGuardia to Chicago. Here we are taxiing in from the 27Left runway at O'Hare in Chicago.

The Chicago airport had an interesting feature I hadn't seen before: a child's seat in the bathroom, next to the hand dryers, for parking a small child momentarily while dad attends to other things.

From Chicago it was an all-night flight across the date line to Tokyo and then another six-hour flight to Bangkok where I spent the night on some airport chairs, luckily padded. Then Thursday morning I was back in a tuk-tuk on the ground in Phnom Penh.