I used this morning to work out how to deal with my Emirates flight.
After finding out that there were to flights to anywhere within Asia unless I went via Dubai I decided that it was probably a dead loss, unless I took the only one which was Hong Kong to Bangkok.
I noticed also while doing this that it was a good price to get between Manila and Hong Kong, so started to make my plans based on this concept.
With the bus ticket bought, I headed to Green Hill for dinner with Xander, who had bought a ticket for the same time, and then we shared a grab to the bus station.
As it turned out, despite it being the same bus times, it was different busses, so we said our good byes, and hopped on for the long journey.
The journey in to the night was as I had read on the trip advice sites - very bumpy roads, and of course, the a/c for the bus was turned to Siberia mode, so I was glad to have remembered the long trousers and jacket to wear!