Away From Home
Published by Thomas under on 8:06 PM
It has been a long night, and it is going to be an even longer day!
I have been on a business trip in the Philippines all week, and was able to arrange my flights home so that I could get back in time for Valentines Day... but the schedule has had its issues. Last night at 1:45 AM I left the Philippines and flew to Korea where I landed at 7:10 AM this morning. I have have now spent the last six hours waiting for the chance to check into my upcoming flight... just so I can wait another two hours before I will be be allowed on the plane... which leaves at 3:30 PM. Once on the plane, I get to sit for 14 hours as we fly over the Pacific to San Francisco. I then get to wait another four hours until I can get on another plane and take a short two hour flight home. All in all the trip home will take 29 hours... although I will arrive in Utah only 14 hours I left the Philippines due to time zones.
The trip has been a lot of fun. I stayed at an incredible hotel that had amazing service and was right on the beach. The weather was about 85-90 degrees every day, and we were able to eat outside overlooking the ocean for most meals. The hotel offered every amenity imaginable, and even has massage therapists come into our meeting room twice a day to give free massages to all of us, we had a special Phillippines dance program performed for us on the beach, I ate tons of exotic foods including parrot fish, Asian soups, white snapper sushumi, etc. and drank more pina colada's than I could count.
While the trip was fun, however, I found myself spending most of my time thinking about home, and wishing I was there... all of the experiences mean nothing when I am unable to share them with the ones I love. And although I am now preparing to return home to cold, snow, the daily routine of work, home, family, scouts, church, etc... I can not think of any other place I would rather be.
So, while the trip home is going to be long... being able to spend Valentines Day with my incredible wife and my adorable children is the best Valentines gift I could ever receive... and would be worth a trip a hundred times as long as this global jaunt.
Contemplating family from a corner in the Korean airport,
Tomasina Cool Cat
I have been on a business trip in the Philippines all week, and was able to arrange my flights home so that I could get back in time for Valentines Day... but the schedule has had its issues. Last night at 1:45 AM I left the Philippines and flew to Korea where I landed at 7:10 AM this morning. I have have now spent the last six hours waiting for the chance to check into my upcoming flight... just so I can wait another two hours before I will be be allowed on the plane... which leaves at 3:30 PM. Once on the plane, I get to sit for 14 hours as we fly over the Pacific to San Francisco. I then get to wait another four hours until I can get on another plane and take a short two hour flight home. All in all the trip home will take 29 hours... although I will arrive in Utah only 14 hours I left the Philippines due to time zones.
The trip has been a lot of fun. I stayed at an incredible hotel that had amazing service and was right on the beach. The weather was about 85-90 degrees every day, and we were able to eat outside overlooking the ocean for most meals. The hotel offered every amenity imaginable, and even has massage therapists come into our meeting room twice a day to give free massages to all of us, we had a special Phillippines dance program performed for us on the beach, I ate tons of exotic foods including parrot fish, Asian soups, white snapper sushumi, etc. and drank more pina colada's than I could count.
While the trip was fun, however, I found myself spending most of my time thinking about home, and wishing I was there... all of the experiences mean nothing when I am unable to share them with the ones I love. And although I am now preparing to return home to cold, snow, the daily routine of work, home, family, scouts, church, etc... I can not think of any other place I would rather be.
So, while the trip home is going to be long... being able to spend Valentines Day with my incredible wife and my adorable children is the best Valentines gift I could ever receive... and would be worth a trip a hundred times as long as this global jaunt.
Contemplating family from a corner in the Korean airport,
Tomasina Cool Cat
2 comments:
Hope you got home ok!!! I heard Quynhie say you were home over the phone!
It is fun to hear about your adventures! Travelling is so much fun but you are right. It is much more fun with loved ones!!!
Welcome back to the cold weather and the warm family!
We missed you so much and were thinking of you all the time too. Love you so much, the other salmonds
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