Justin Parke

Khmerican Family Abroad #25 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 Life In Transit 🧳 Part 1 - By Air ✈️

Being bankrupt and stranded in Suriname has caused us to miss economic freedom and personal freedom of movement greatly.

🛫 AIRPORTS & AIRPLANES 🛬

With "walking" being the only freedom of movement we still have and can afford these days, @Sreypov and I were reminiscing last night about the abundance of forms of travel we used to enjoy before coming to the western hemisphere.

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Since flying is the form of transportation that landed us in the western hemisphere, I decided to share some of my favorite pics of us in sky-related transit, as it was the most recently acquired family freedom and the most recently lost.

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About a year and half ago we had a wee bit of savings, passports for all, and a desire to get legally married, something unavailable to us in Cambodia.

Airplanes came to our rescue, at least in some ways. We suffered many transit visa refusals, flight refusals, multi-day layovers without any accommodation, but we have grown stronger as a family through this form of transport.

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We've slept on the floor for days to enjoy the privilege of briefly flying, and the @KidSisters have never once cried or complained too much.

Monkey-B only approves of Bajaj RE transport, and considers all other forms of transportation inferior. All enclosed forms of transport stink of "plastic" and "air-conditioning," according to this sensitive-nosed travel critic.

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Even though we self-impose extreme austerity measures when transiting airports, food is something we never deprive ourselves of, me just make sure to try and not look at the prices.

Traveling by air has taught the @KidSisters how to eat and sleep anywhere, anytime. There's no place too awkward to sleep or position too uncomfortable to sleep in.

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Sometimes one needs to relax though, and we've seen the best of free relaxation at Changi Airport in Singapore. We've also experienced the world's worst-rated airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Staying loose and goofy is the key to surviving air transit and all it brings. There is an equal abundance in both the ways to handle family transit as well as ways to transit.

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It seems a big part of being in transit is the waiting, and we have become experts at that. Modes of transportation are in abundance, but air travel is exclusively for the middle class and and above during the new COVID-19 world.

Stay tuned for more ways to experience life in transit...