I arrived 1 day early to get orientated (which is a joke for me) and to try to get adjusted to the 12 hr time difference. It was a long flight, up early and 1 and ½ hr drive from my house to the airport then flight into Chicago, and from there to Tokyo and then on to Bangkok International Airport or also known as Don Muang, arrived around midnight. Out the door to get a taxi after picking up backpack with no problems getting through customs, (I exchanged 20 US$$ at the airport so I would have taxi money) which cost me 350 Thai Baht (it was normally around 40 Baht to 1 US dollar). Into the car at 1215 and to my hotel at 1240, the driver was going 120 k/hr most of the way (not sure why we were in such a hurry).