The day we left Phuket was the most memorable day of the whole journey, we were flying to Bangkok at 21:30 pm, the normal way from our hotel to Phuket International Airport is less than 1 hour, considering the uncertain traffic, we took about 18 o'clock to go to the airport, I want to say as long as 20 o'clock can get to the airport on the line. At first, there was a little difference pool, and the driver picked us up ten minutes late, thinking that the problem was not big, and it was a small episode. Get in the car, drive along Patong Beach, and enjoy the dusk of Patong Beach along the way, even in the car is intoxicating. The next time you meet Lao Xu, you have to stay in Padang for a few days.
After crossing the beach, there is nothing to appreciate when entering the city, plus a little traffic jam, the two people are dizzy, and when they are awake again, they find that it is already dark, the car is basically immobile, and there is a red dragon in front of it, and there is no end to it. Looking at the time, it was already 19:30, and it was only half an hour before the 20 o'clock we expected. I can't sit still. Ask the driver brother (Thai) how long it will take, say one hour, this time we are more empty, saying 1 hour is definitely a conservative estimate. Sure enough, after driving for half an hour, it didn't move much, it was already 20 o'clock, and the old Xu looked at each other, realizing that it was very likely that the plane could not catch up, and it did not matter if it could not catch up, it was a big deal to change the flight, and if it could not be changed, it would be when the air ticket money was floating and re-bought. The embarrassing thing is that our flight is to Bangkok, which means that we have to catch the plane below Bangkok, if we miss this flight, we may not be able to buy a flight to catch bangkok, things are much more troublesome than we expected.
The driver brother should also feel our anxiety, began to find a new road, before it was on the main road, hit a direction to the path up, but when God wants to joke with you, you really can't cope, the road is also blocked, plus the road is small, the car is not convenient to change lanes, feel that the situation is worse. It's already 20:30. Limited to language, unable to communicate with the driver too deeply, can only be anxious in the heart, and silently check the new flight. At this time, the body turned, and we entered a new path, but there was no car on this road, the speed of the car increased significantly, and we were happy in our hearts. It was too dark, plus the path had no street lights, the only thing I could feel was that the road was well built, very smooth, but the road was very narrow, our car almost occupied the entire lane, and there were many curves, anyway, these are not problems, the car can drive up. However, when a car came on the opposite side, the two cars met, and when the high beam cut into the close light, we finally realized that it was a cliff path, no wonder there were so many curves. The driver brother has been accelerating very intimately, and the fat man and I have been unable to calm down. At such a speed, on the path on the edge of the cliff, the driver's brother skillfully switched the long and near lights, hitting the tip of our hearts one after another. I was already in the beginning of fantasy that the car overturned, when we were taken to the Thai hospital, how do I communicate with the doctors, whether they will call our embassy, with a nervous heart, I silently shook Lao Xu's hand. After staying up like this for ten minutes, we got on the main road, and the driver brother happily told us that the airport was in front, only ten minutes, and our hearts that were hanging all the way finally let go. When we got to the airport, we stuffed 50 yuan into the driver's hand, said, this is 50 yuan for your kind help, thank you very much, and ran to the check-in desk.
We were in such a hurry that I wasn't sure if the driver brother could hear my unspeakable thanks, but I believe he would feel our sincerity when he saw the tip we gave (the tip for a Thai taxi is usually 20 baht, 50 baht is already very high, and we give 50 yuan). In fact, the traffic jam is not the driver's fault, even if we can't catch up, we can't say anything about him, but the brother can be anxious to rush us, so hard and safe to take us to the airport, we are really grateful. Looking back now, I don't remember what the little brother looked like, but the cliff-edge path and the long and near lights that kept switching were deeply engraved in my mind and lingered.
In Bangkok are late night flights because they are cheap. About 23:00 to Bangkok, 4:00 a.m. to fly to Nanjing, 2 hours in advance to check-in, that is, as long as you wait at the airport for 3 or 4 hours, it is not difficult for the transfer. But, again, when God is going to joke with you, you really can't help it. At zero o'clock, the big screen at the airport showed that our flight was delayed, because it was snowing in Nanjing, and the drama was not dramatic. Thanks to Suvarnabhumi, there are still many people at midnight, unlike Dalian Airport, which is closed in the early morning (this is another unforgettable experience [covering your face]). This kind of thing will always happen later, and we are not in a hurry, ready to go to eat first, and then sit and wait. Wait for the finished meal and then return to the check-in hall, ask the staff about when it is late, said it should be about 8 o'clock, at this time it is more than 2 o'clock, out to find the hotel is not too late, and the old Xu discussed, just at the airport to make up the meeting, so the two people took turns squinting, waiting for 4, 5 o'clock because it is too cold, has been completely sleepy. At this time, the radio sounded, and our flight could not fly at 8 o'clock, and it was going to be 13 o'clock, and it was really aimed at a cat. We said it was going to be noon, and we went to find the hotel in the middle of the night. The heart is naturally to find the airline out of the gas, hit the customer service all kinds of complaints, however, air traffic control this kind of thing is not your complaint can be solved, and it is estimated that these customer service has seen the complaint is not strange, all your temper is like hitting the cotton, there is no rebound, you also feel powerless. There is no way but to wait.
When things are unfavorable one after another, you will find that your psychological ability to face disadvantages will also become stronger, because when the radio says that our flight has been changed to 18 o'clock, we have calmed down, haha. When we landed in Nanjing, it was already 22:00 at night, from the hot beach back to the snow in as long as 3 hours, and the moment you landed, all the fatigue seemed to matter, plus the flight delay insurance earned back 1200, the mood has become beautiful. Looking back now, I don't remember the bangkok airport customer service ignoring it, but lying on the airport bench, the clothes that Lao Xu tried to cover me, and the snow that I stepped on back to Nanjing were deeply engraved in my mind and lingered.
I used to travel to escape, to escape from the boring life and work and people in front of me, and I wanted to relax myself for a short time, but after I came back from the trip, everything returned to the original point, and those boring things still did not change, which made me wonder what the meaning of travel was. But later, when I started to get used to memories and I found that many of the beautiful pictures in my mind were related to travel, I really realized the meaning of travel. Travel is an unknown exploration, even if you do a good job, you will still encounter various situations, even if you plan the attractions, you will still encounter the unknown style. Once with Lao Xu driving back to Manchuria from a small town in Inner Mongolia, halfway through the drive, we found that the oil was very little, but there were still more than a hundred kilometers, and the navigation did not find a gas station along the way, so we did not dare to stop. But in such a situation, when we turned a mountain, there was a colored mountain range in front of us, the grass on the mountain was colorful in the sun, the beauty was invincible, we did not dare to stop, but we were deeply attracted by the scene in front of us, and we could only slowly open it, so that the beauty of this sudden harvest passed a little slower. We have also seen the sun shining through the clouds in the small village at the bottom of the mountain, like the spotlight of the stage, shooting from this end of the village to the other, and we stood in the VIP room on the 3rd floor and looked at everything in front of us, and there was a sense of God in the world.
When we planned to live in Ginza, Tokyo, we didn't know that it was a pedestrian street that would close the traffic at 3 p.m., so when we arrived in Ginza on the first night, we only saw the prosperity of the international metropolis, only to be attracted by the sports cars and go-karts on the road, and when we went back to the hotel the next afternoon to see the ginza street, we were shocked, on both sides were first-line big-name buildings, and the middle was crowded with travelers from all over the world, many of whom did not come to shop. Just to stand on this road and leave a picture of you as if you were in it and not there.
In order to meet more beauty, I will continue on the road.