I'm sititng in the Northwest Airlines WorldLounge at SFO about to embark on another journey. I was invited to speak at a meeting in Bali. Pretty sweet. It's not til the 28th, but I decided to take some well needed PTO. Orignally I was just going to o to Bali, hang out in Ubud among the rice paddies and the mokies and the artisans, but when corporate travel booked my flight, it went through Bangkok, so I'm going to spend a few nights back in Bangkok before heading to Bali.

I haven't been in Southeast Asia since early 2002. I was in Bali and Lombok for 6 weeks in spring 2002 and in Bangkok in transit to Cambodia just after 9/11, so I'm pretty excited. This will be first trip to the east since I've had a digital camera, so I should come home with tons of great pictures.

The flight leaves in about an hour. I'm armed with several movies, some beef jerky and abien so it shouldn't be so. I'm in business class for the leg from here to Bangkok (via Tokyo), so that's nice, but I'll be in steerage on JAL and NWA from Denpasar to Narita and SFO. Then I have a few hours to check in with the cats before going back to the airport for a flight to Boston. More work. A three day meeting. Then it's back for one day of regular work and then a 3 day offsite in the city. No rest for the weary.

I will try to do some posting from the road and get some pics online at Flickr, but I've thought I'd be able to do this before on other trips, Costa Rica most notably, and I haven't been able to one reason or another. I do have my computer with this time, so it might be different.