Our employers finally sent them to us yesterday after several problems with scheduling and name spellings (it’s Haskins, not HaskinGs, thank you very much) . We leave Detroit on Sunday, August, 25th at 2:25pm and arrive in Tokyo approximately 14 hours later. We have a two hour layover in Tokyo and then a 3 hour flight to Seoul (Incheon International Airport). We should reach the Republic of Korea around 10:30pm (local time) in the evening. This means we lose a Monday, but we think it will be worth it.
We almost didn’t come to Philadelphia. The thing about Philly is that it isn’t really on anyone’s travel radar and it often gets overshadowed by bigger cities to the north and south. Yet neither Greg nor I had ever been to the city of brotherly love and it was halfway between New York and DC so we thought, why not?
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So, big news! Our visa issuance numbers have come through. We had been hoping to get them before we left for our trip since Ellen lives about 30 seconds from an ancillary Korean Consulate office, but instead we received the much anticipated email mid way through our Philly Cheesesteaks in downtown Philadelphia. Looks like our tour of the Eastern seaboard has now become a business trip. Does that mean we can claim it on our taxes? Updates on our interview at the consulate in NYC to follow.
As I write this, Greg and I are sitting in the 30th Street train station in Philadelphia on our way to New York City. Philadelphia is the middle leg of our mini tour of the Eastern Seaboard (DC, Philly, NYC). You see, Greg and I decided that before we become strangers in a strange land, we would like to see a little more of our own lovely country. We call this our planes, trains and automobiles trip.
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