One Night in Bangkok

Yes, really. I missed my flight on Thursday, and ended up having to fly to Bangkok and spend a night here, though I didn’t know at the time how long I would actually be. I was nervous until I checked my bookings online, and found someone had already made reservations for my make-up flight… the website said I would go to Delhi either on Saturday or Sunday. So I got a room at the Royal Hotel and wandered around Khoa San Road. Somewhere along the way I ran into a nice East German girl who’d been on the shuttle bus …

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So here’s the rough plan…

The rough plan for India: Finish testing next Monday. Spend Tuesday punching in grades and handing in the last of my paperwork, and pick up my ticket and passport, which should be ready by then. Leave Korea on the night of the 18th of December. Arrive at some crazy-ass time like 5am on the 19th of December. Meet up with Ritu. Thank my lucky stars. Hang out Ritu and prowl about Delhi for a week. Blunder south to Agra, and Fatepur Sikra for a few days. Shoot north to Dharamsala and settle in for a wonderful winter. Write my novel; …

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The best travel agent in Korea.

I’m willing to bet that Mr. Jang-Yong Choi is the best travel agent in Korea. He works at Time Machine Travel up in Seoul. Here’s the company’s webpage. (It’s also available in Korean.) Where other agents only checked the cheapest classes, he went one class up, checked on things, and managed to get me tickets to India via Bangkok, and back, with a short stopover in Bangkok, all for only a little over a million won! (About a thousand dollars, cheaper than anything I have been offered yet.) And on top of that, he even is looking up what I …

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