Things I learned during my 27 hour flight & arrival in Bangkok in the mdidle of the night...
Things I have learned in the first 16 hours of my 24 hour flight(s): No matter how much sleep you think you will get on a plane… you will be wrong. Taking a train from the domestic terminal at Chicago O'Hare to the International terminal I kind of like crossing a country border. Things become suddenly foreign, in a good way. When taking a Korean Air flight, operated by Delta, all of the flight announcements are made in Korean. I don’t know Korean. I only studied Thai. So I waited at the back of a VERy long line of people waiting to board the flight.. only to find out I could have boarded first zone. This is not a bad thing though. I got a lot of people watching in, became suddenly aware of just how little I am in such a big world, and also got to stand for another 20 minutes, which was also a good thing. When the airlines hand you slippers, always say yes. I did just that, but wasn’t really sure why. Turns out your feet swell like hot air balloons consistently through the fli...