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Bangkok, Thailand (Dexter)
11/23/04 Day 7Song stuck in my head today: Tehran
Today I flew out of the Middle East. My first stop today was Hyderabad, India, but to get there, I had to fly over Iran and Pakistan. There‘s something a little weird about talking to a controller who calls himself ‘Tehran Air Traffic Control‘. I don‘t know, maybe it‘s just me! Anyway, he cleared me to fly over Pakistan. I hung a right at Karachi and as I did I looked down at it and thought about all the unrest that had been happening there. I gotta admit, the city did have sort of an ominous look to it. I was glad not to be landing there.
I went on to Hyderabad, which is right in the middle of India, and stopped for gas. I took off again, this time headed for Bangkok, Thailand. To get there, I had to fly for a couple hours over the Indian Ocean. I decided that oceans really look pretty similar. The Indian Ocean sounds sort of exotic, like it would be more blue or something. But not really. Pretty much the same.
As I descended into Bangkok, I thought about the show we had played there just a few months ago. It was our first time to play in Bangkok, and the show was really cool. It always trips me out the first time we go somewhere, especially somewhere really far away like Bangkok, where they don‘t speak the language and they have a totally different culture, and yet they come out to the show. They even know all the words, even though they don‘t know English. It‘s pretty awesome.
Yeah, my job sucks!
