It was as good a 17-hour flight as I could have hoped for. Everything was on time, the ride was mostly smooth, and the Thai food wasn’t bad.
Still, it was a 17-hour flight. At about 10 hours in, it feels like you’ve been flying forever. Then you realize you still have 7 hours left, the length of another incredibly long flight. That’s when you order 
another bloody mary–or, if you’re the middle-aged Indian man sitting next to me, you keep asking for a kamikaze, which the stewardess doesn’t know how to make and is one of the worst things to keep saying in a loud voice on an airplane.
Thankfully, Thai Air has personal video screens and movies on demand. I watched a few Bollywood movies and “Invincible,†the football movie starring Mark Wahlberg. I have to say, it was wicked inspirational. With the thin cabin air and sleep deprivation, I got choked up like 15 times. Also, Greg Kinnear does a great Dick Vermeil impression.
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