Hey hey, I just landed in Seoul, South Korea and am loving the free wifi at the airport. I wish I had a connection with which to blog throughout my trip so far, but I have a few comments and notes I’d like to get in before I jump on my connecting flight to Busan.
1) Korean Air gave me one of the best travel experiences ever. Plenty of movies, good food, lots of movie options and most importantly lots of space. Perhaps the expectations I had of flying steerage class for 14 hours made anything seem great, but I never felt that cramped, discomforted or crappy throughout the flight. I think the quality sleeping pills I took during the flight may have also helped some.
2) Incheon International Airport is pretty sweet. Free wifi, free luggage carts and everything is shiny and clean. Also, at those desks where people fill out customs documents, there were even reading glasses provided next to the pens that are usually found at such a desk.
3) Perhaps a little bit of the jitters and natural homesickness that comes to being a great distance from the states, but I did begin to feel alien on the flight from New York. I was not the only American on the flight, but the others travelling were military personal and clearly doing their own thing.
4) Google defaulting to www.google.co.kr during my first web search in Korea is a neat trick, but I must override that. Right now, I struggle to pronounce Romanizations of Korean words (“Thank you” is a struggle at kam-sa-ham-ni-da) so Korean characters are absolutely useless to me right now.
5) Solid move packing some big bags of Dark Chocolate M & M’s. I’d venture over to the convenience store, but I check-in for my flight hasn’t opened yet (its 5:56am here) and I don’t want to lug 6 months worth of luggage in and out while decided between lots of Korean Foods at the convenience store that I don’t know diddley about.
More to come…..
