Whew...it is now 6:15 pm on Day 10 of the "Trip of a lifetime!" and I am finally sitting in a comfortable internet cafe, with a high-speed connection, and computers that have so far, not crashed. However, I wasn't exactly prepared for this, so there are still no pictures.
So from the beginning...Day 1, Thursday, Oct.2, 2008. The night before, we managed to get everything packed, shipped, given away, and otherwise disposed of and to our friends Gerald & Shig's place for dinner and to spend the night. In the morning, caught the bus to the airport, got on our plane, dried Yoshi's tears, and were off to Hong Kong. We made our way to our friend Spyros' apartment on "The Peak" on HK Island, where he lives in a HUGE empty apartment in one of the buildings called "the Chopsticks", so called because they are side-by-side stick-thin skyscrapers; apparently the tallest residential towers in HK, possibly in all of Mainland Asia.
We stayed there for about two and a half days, and did almost nothing other than hang out in his nest. We were still completing our immigration application, which was the first priority. With a couple of hitches, we finally got that done and posted, so I could move on to worrying about if I did it correctly or not.
Leaving HK we hit our first snag. We checked in online, and then failed to get to the airport on time to catch our flight...by about 10 minutes! And the best Cathay Pacific could offer was about $400 per person to fly the next day. So we headed back to Spyros', got online and managed to find a flight leaving from Macau the next day at 11am, for about $150 each. Not bad...much better than I had even hoped.
So that is how we ended up in Macau, for those who saw my status on Facebook. We caught the 7:30 am ferry, rode through a typhoon, caught the local bus to the airport (which in itself wasn't the easiest, as most people in Macau speak Portuguese...and I don't.
From Macau, we went to Bangkok, arriving about 14 hours later than planned. All's well that ends well, I guess. And it's another stamp on the passport!
Next up, Thailand Part 1...
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