Birthday and ramblings!
Hi everybody! I turned 30 as we landed in Bangkok!
As Tina said, the technology in Bangkok is super cool. At their new airport, they have free luggage carts. The carts have a braking system where you have to press the handle down before it would move. Well the baggage area was on the second floor and the parking was down a floor... so we took the escalator of course, but this was a really cool escalator! It was a ramp so I pushed the cart onto it. Well there is an article about how high-tech this airport is, the carts are RFID enabled and as soon as it got on the ramp, it locked the wheels and no matter how hard we pushed, it wouldn't release until it got to the end. I don't know what was neater, the RFID or the FREE CARTS?
They people were really nice at the airport. We brought our immigration forms in to them and we didn't have an address that we stayed at. We said that we were part of a tour. She said just put down anything so I wrote down "OAT Tour Hotel". It's really neat to see the security out here, all the police are military so you see full uniform with hats. When we were driving in the rain, at an intersection we saw a military person out with a gun.
Alright, time to get myself ready. I got 2 hours of sleep in and am still pumped with energy. I'm really anxious to hit Vietnam and not just be near it. I'll try to take some airport photos, we were a little too much in a hurry last night.
Charles
As Tina said, the technology in Bangkok is super cool. At their new airport, they have free luggage carts. The carts have a braking system where you have to press the handle down before it would move. Well the baggage area was on the second floor and the parking was down a floor... so we took the escalator of course, but this was a really cool escalator! It was a ramp so I pushed the cart onto it. Well there is an article about how high-tech this airport is, the carts are RFID enabled and as soon as it got on the ramp, it locked the wheels and no matter how hard we pushed, it wouldn't release until it got to the end. I don't know what was neater, the RFID or the FREE CARTS?
They people were really nice at the airport. We brought our immigration forms in to them and we didn't have an address that we stayed at. We said that we were part of a tour. She said just put down anything so I wrote down "OAT Tour Hotel". It's really neat to see the security out here, all the police are military so you see full uniform with hats. When we were driving in the rain, at an intersection we saw a military person out with a gun.
Alright, time to get myself ready. I got 2 hours of sleep in and am still pumped with energy. I'm really anxious to hit Vietnam and not just be near it. I'll try to take some airport photos, we were a little too much in a hurry last night.
Charles
posted by Chuckle-Bunny at
4:32 PM
2 Comments:
This is so cool! You guys made it safely in Bangkok.
I can't wait 'till Pete & I go to VN next year. We'll fly with Northwest and might have similar route as you two.
Ann
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Anonymous, at 5:03 PM
Chuck,
Happy 30th b-day!!!
Ann
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Anonymous, at 5:12 PM
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