homeward bound

i followed a young romanian man who speaks chinese down from the mountains of koh phi phi to the ferry at the beach, rode the ferry an hour and a half to phuket, was driven an hour to the phuket airport, flew an hour to bangkok, waited three hours in the bangkok airport, flew four hours to shanghai, took the maglev from the airport and then taxi'ed to catherine's house, taxi'ed to the maglev again, maglev'ed back to the airport, flew fourteen hours to chicago, picked up my bags, passed through immigration, and re-checked them in two hours, and flew four hours to los angeles, all so i could be home right now.