Flying from Phoenix Arizona to Bangkok Thailand to Kathmandu Nepal during COVID in March 2022: Dave documents the long haul journey, Thailand's Test and Go entry, and the start of the Everest Base Camp adventure. A firsthand record of late pandemic era international travel, from departure in Arizona to arrival in Nepal.
A Multi Stop Journey East
The route runs from Dave's home in Phoenix, Arizona, through San Diego, California, and Tokyo, Japan, before landing in Bangkok, Thailand. Filmed in March 2022, the video captures what international travel looked like in the late COVID era: masking, testing, and paperwork at every stage of the journey.
Thailand's Test and Go Entry
On arrival in Bangkok, Dave goes through Test and Go, Thailand's short lived COVID entry scheme that required pre arranged testing and an approved hotel night while awaiting results. For anyone researching how Thailand reopened to tourism, this is a firsthand record of how the system actually worked on the ground.
Meeting Up and Heading to Nepal
In Bangkok, Dave meets up with his wife Kim, who flies in from Koh Samui, and together they continue to Kathmandu, Nepal. The goal is the expedition that anchors the next stretch of the channel: an Everest Base Camp trek with a sleepover at the actual base camp, one of the most ambitious adventures the family has filmed. For anyone who traveled internationally during that period, the airports, forms, and testing lines will look very familiar, and for everyone else it is a fascinating piece of recent travel history.
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