Katelyn and Gregory Haskins find their way through—and around—the world
Clearly, Greg and I have been playing catch-up on these blog posts so as promised, here is one on our recent trip to Seoraksan. Greg’s birthday was a few weekends ago and it happily coincided with another national holiday ( something like Memorial day, I think). We had been to Seoul and a few few places around Gyeonggi-do, but we decided to take our last few dollars and the opportunity of a long weekend and to venture a little further in to South Korea.
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.
Seeing New York was definitely a priority on our planes, trains, and automobiles trip. I mean, how could Katie see any more of the world without first seeing the Big Apple? But she’d have to wait first. After arriving at Penn station, we had to take the subway out to Brooklyn to check into the hotel, then back into Manhattan at Rockefeller Plaza before she could catch her first glimpse of the city. She was mildly excited, to say the least.
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?
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.
