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Already without a wink of sleep since the day previous, I stand in an eerily silent hotel foyer, waiting for my taxi to the airport. The inner city roads of Bangkok are still quite busy for 4 am, but the freeway to Suvarnabhumi International Airport is like a 10 mile long runway, waiting to be attacked as if it’s a Top Gear speed test. And we’ve just been given permission to roll.
It was already noon by the time I’d left my hostel in Sukhumvit to explore more of central Bangkok. Apparently there was a requisite landmark that I had overlooked yesterday. So I once again found my way over to Central pier and shot up the Chao Phraya river on a water taxi, halting my rugged voyage opposite the stirring Khmer like towers of Wat Arun – or the Temple of Dawn.
The bumps and augmenting turbulence of my Air Asia jet did little to quell the somnolent state I’d come to find myself in during this, and every other plane, train and boat journey during my trip so far. Until, that is, the charm of my titled head and wide open jaw unknowingly allured the attention of a fellow passenger seated next to me. I was suddenly awake and situationally aware.
