Just a quick one to keep you guys updated!
I am finally, finally, finally returning to Korea! After a long wait, employment fall-outs, and various visa complications (that I won’t go into or I will give myself high blood pressure) I am set to travel back to my adopted home tomorrow morning! There were times when I thought the day would never come!
But if you think it is all fun and games, then think again…I mean, just have a look at my flight schedule below. It’s as if Satan himself designed it. This is what happens when you don’t book flights yourself I guess…perhaps it’s a test…I think just like most of my Maths exams at school, I will fail. I looked around in the medicine section of the supermarket today, hoping there were some powerful pills that would just knock me out so I could sleep through the whole thing…you know something named like EXTRA STRENGTH NITRO SNOOZE or something…I dunno…but I couldn’t see anything of the sort, it was all herbal slumber and blah blah blah…I am thinking I will just make friends with the passenger next to me in each of the flights and ask him/her to bonk me on the head with a fire extinguisher or something.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK! WHY IS THE WORLD SO BIG, AND WHY CAN PLANES NOT JUST HURRY UP – GAWD LAZY ENGINES, GET A MOOOOVE ON!!!!
Wish me luck…I NEED IT!
Storytime with John 
Lucky YOU – Going back to your adopted home. That’s the way I feel every time I return to USA from any
trip overseas. This is my adopted country. Hey, hey, hey. You can make some awesome friends on a long
trip as that. It’s in the journey that one grows – so keep your eyes open – hold on to all the experiences and
journal, journal, at the moment. Bon Voyage!!!!
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It’s a weird feeling right? But a good one! You leave so much in a place and don’t really realize at first and then your heart starts pulling you back! Hmm…anyway don’t get me started! 😀 I’ll be rambling all night otherwise!
I agree about making awesome friends on route, I mean, why not? 😀
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Hope it all goes smoothly 😉
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I appreciate that, thank you!
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that video kills me. lol there is nothing strong enough to knock one out for such flights (I have found)
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Dammmmit! I need something, anything!
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Who do those planes think they are!? Lingering about at their own pace, like they own the sky!
Good luck with your hectic flights 🙂 It will be worth it when you land!
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Thank you, THANK YOU! They just loiter about in the airways causing a nuisance! People have places to be, jheez!
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I just came from my trip and I took a direct 8-hour flight. It helps if you drink chamomile before the flight :p. I like flying now, but I used to think planes were tunnels that led to hell.
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I think you were right with the tunnels to hell thing, haha but I shall try the tea! Who knows? 😀
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Haha worth a try. If this helps, the times marked on your itinerary are local time. So, the time you leave for Amsterdam is your time, whereas the time you leave via China airlines is their local time and so on.
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if you’ll have access to your e-mail, you can subscribe and they will send you an email prior to your check-in. Or you can always go to customer service :p.
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Am I reading your itinerary right – you will be THREE days in transit? Or is all of this supposed to happen in a single day?
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Your guess is honestly as good as mine…different time zones and whatnot have me confused, very confused. I will look like hell by the end, if I’m still alive. Urgh…I need a teleporter.
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teleporters would be an excellent thing. Then we could get rid of all the cars on the road, and actually have room and time to think.
Not to mention the extra minutes in our days to get stuff done.
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It sounds like a dream world…but definitely a world I want to be a reality. Scientists really need to get a move on.
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So true. I wish more science fiction could become science fact. Soon!
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Have a safe flight!
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Oh, and thank you!
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Good luck John and have a safe flight 🙂 *hugs* / Nad
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Aww thank you, how lovely 😀
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I’d like to bonk you on the head with a fire extinguisher or something just to help you if i was there.. haha thought it’d be fun XD
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hahahaha thank you at least someone will!!!
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my pleasure 😀
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Looks as if you will have TIME in-between flights to update us on your travels! And good you are not in the BACK of the plane near the toilets! Look forward to hearing about your experiences getting to South Korea. Earplugs would help! Have a safe flights!
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I am sorry. That does look nightmarish. I don’t think I could handle it, and you have all my sympathies and best wishes.
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That is so awesome! WISH YOU THE BEST OF LUCK IN KOREA and with that airplane schedule!!! And now I wonder if you enjoy their dramas. Lol. I totally have to visit Asia one day! Until then I will have to pick up a language. :D!
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Wow, that flight schedule looks like hell. Good luck.
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I think you need a Harry Potter Time-Turner…..OMG, that looks like a horrendous trip! But please….bring me some of these EXTRA STRENGTH NITRO SNOOZE….I need them!
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That does look like a punishing schedule. But like all math tests, we live thru them. Fighting! 😉
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Oooof. You really do need luck. I can’t fly unless someone knocks me out and carries me onto the plane, and then carries me off again before I wake up.
Oh- and doesn’t tell me anything about what happened.
What? That’s totally plausible.
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I truly enjoyed reading your travel tales and wishing you a great trip back to your adopted home
🙂 Hope you survive the long flight 🙂 as the does not look at all fun…
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Glad to hear that you will be able to return to your “adopted home country”. Hope you have a safe trip, and be sure to rest once you get home. Have to sleep off all that jet lag!
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Four flights? Why don’t you just take the Tardis?
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I’m sorry but what is ROTK? I’m guessing, something to do with LOTR? 😛
Have a safe flight!
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hahaha, I was like “return to Korea”…wait hold on that’s close enough! What can I say, any excuse to drop a vague lord of the rings reference!
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*sheepish* Umm yes that makes sense too 😛
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Have a safe trip.
At least my trip to NZ was one plane (left 9pm 31/8, arrived 9am 2/9) with an hour and a half stop in Hong Kong, total journey time 23 hours going (allow for time difference), 25 coming back via HK again rather than the US (left midnight 28/10 arrived 2pm 29/10).
Enjoyed every minute of the flight as I had my own entertainment station, a proper bed and fantastic food (blew part of my pension nest egg on a first class ticket)
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Wow, what a journey, but WELCOME HOME!
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So happy for you that you are going back ‘home’. No sympathy from me as far as the flying is concerned. I just love flying! One of my favorite trips was flying from Cape Town, South Africa to Mobile, Alabama – my itinerary was pages long! I love reading and people watching and having my meals served to me knowing that I don’t have to wash the dishes afterwards! Have fun and good luck.
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bon voyage!! oh, i guess the ship er plane has already flown. i hate flying anymore. i think the last time i was on a plane was in 2007. l.a. to chicago and back. it was quite enough, thank you. congrats on the new gig. good luck and god speed.
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You are so lucky to have a home away from home.Enjoy your flight and hopefully whoever bonks your head with the extinguisher will not hit you so hard to put you into eternal sleep.All the best.
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Have a good flight notwithstanding the hassle!
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I actually cried for you a little bit while reading that itinerary. Safe travels!
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…………….Well, that’s a total sucker. Sorry to see that. You think a fire extinguisher is enough to shake your brain off of it?
just kiddin’
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Love the way you ended that post! LOL! Good luck and have a safe trip!
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Thanks Wanda! 😀
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Do NOT read my blog post from today. It will not help. Also do NOT read Vanity Fair. Or the Weekend section of yesterday’s Guardian.
Fly safely. And yes, knock yourself out.
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Don’t worry about the flights just take it all in! It will probably make all the visa issues worth it and you won’t even remember them after it all! Your such a good writer and I hope you’ll post about your travels! Don’t get lost x
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Thank you! This was lovely to read, and almost made me forget the jet lag I am suffering from right now! More posts coming soon of course, I am honored to have you looking out for them!
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I am new to the whole blogging thing and super jealous of how many comments and stuff you get! Jet lag is horrific, Australia to London I was oh for about three days! Have a great trip
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Oh stick with it! I’m only five months in, but it has been a progressive thing! I hate how late I am to replying most of the time with me traveling about!
Oooohh Australia to anyway is a killer I bet! I have New Zealand in my sight…hmm…will someday!
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Well if your going to get to New Zealand then you might as well pop across! It’s worth a visit I must say.. Yeah I’m about a month in it’s just hard because my blog is quite vulnerable and personal but I really want it heard so when I feel like it isn’t it makes it tricky but ahh well! You were super quick with that reply so going strong haha
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I will! I’m here now, you caught me at a good time I suppose 😉
I understand! Just put it out there and I think if anything people will appreciate the honesty of it all!
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Stay tuned I guess! Do you have any hints?
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Many…haha! On what particularly? Naturally I’d love to help 🙂
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Just how to get the blog out there and become more involved with the people reading it
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Oh okay! Well it’s nice to think of it as a community, so try and interact with blogs that match your interests or hit on certain issues that you may address on your site. Also try and ask questions, possibly even rhetorical ones that can spark conversation.
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Okay cool I only discovered the little community which is super cool! Thanks so much
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You’ve got this, I believe in you!
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Thank you haha you’ve been a huge help
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John would alcohol help? Ya know a drinky-poo each flight? No, not drunk just a bit tipsy is all…Ha I do not even drink alcohol so what do I know? Have a safe journey-Be H a p p y!
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Consider luck wished….think there might be a story or to in there….
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Lucky duck! I hope your return is everything you are hoping for 🙂 ROTK could stand for Roundaboutly Off To Korea? Good luck finding some nuclear strength knockout lollies! 🙂
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Wow, I’ve been on my fair share of terrible, long ass flights but damn, that schedule looks no bueno. Sorry for rubbing it in haha!
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You are right, glad you can sympathize to some extent…urgh…at least I am here now, worth it (just about!)
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Things that make me laugh ‘ROTFL’ is I imagine you cry like in that video.. hahaha
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hahaha, it wasn’t so far off to be honestly! 😦
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Good luck. It’ll all be worth it in the end once you land in the sunshine LOL!
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Thank you! Here now at last! Just settling in, aka eating too much and making a fool out of myself!
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Now that. My friend. Is what you call, “living it up”! 🙂
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En route to Korea…..bit of a hassle it seems but you´re almost there.
That first picture of the guy with the hat all dressed up with all the other people dressed up…..That is sooooooo English style. Gotta love the Brits.
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haha, makes me smile every time I see it!
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