(Delayed blog entry from June 2012)
Asiana Airlines Flight# 0Z213 Enroute to Seoul, South Korea
Asiana Airlines Flight# 0Z213 Enroute to Seoul, South Korea
Well, so far it’s been about 2 hours since my plane took off to India and in that time I’ve been able to lose my cell phone and misinterpret my Korean airhostess, thereby forfeiting my much awaited dinner. I would not have planned it this way, but in any event I wished to be “technology free” during my travels and missing a meal might help me remain humbled and focused on my goals in India. Only 19 hours to go …
(2 hours later) Found my cell phone after frantically ripping my airplane seat apart. Drank two cups of orange juice, so no longer starving … things are looking up! I wonder who and what is waiting for me in India ... this trip is long overdue. This journey I’m on, this magnetism to the foreign land form which my great-grandfather was born, isn’t about the geography … instead I travel for the people and the life lessons they will bestow upon me. Land is land, food is food, music is music, but people share a collective wisdom which is unique to each and every country. The lessons I hope to learn in India will leave me a changed man … I already know that.
We are now in Seoul, South Korea. Plane took off at 1pm, flew for 11+ hours, then landed at 5pm. I’m a zombie. 3 hour layover before my flight to Delhi. Ordered sushi and a beer to help kill the time. Lots of Asian people here, I wonder if I stick out from the crowd? The sushi looks amazing.
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