The trip back to Asia started early on Tuesday morning with a 5:00 AM taxi to the train station in Ossining. The train terminated in Grand Central Station in New York City and from there I got a bus to LaGuardia, and then I was off. I finally arrived in Bangkok at 10:30 PM on Wednesday night.
The flights started off with a small regional jet that took me from LaGuardia in NYC to Dulles International in Washington, D.C. where I changed to a B777 for the thirteen hour flight to Tokyo. The 777 was the first two-engine aircraft certified for trans-ocean flight.
In Tokyo we changed planes and once again moved up to a bigger model, the B747 for the six-hour flight to Bangkok.
The Japanese are noted for all sorts of conveniences and labor-saving devices. This is a child seat attached to the inside of a toilet stall in the Narita airport.
And for the mother or father of the child there is an electronic toilet with an armrest containing controls for warm or cold, strong or weak streams of water from a bidet nozzle under the toilet seat.
