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Weaver Adventure Blog for Week of May 23, 2012

The Adventure Heats Up

Korean Won

So our one-way flights are ten days away.  Lots of last minute things are on our to-do lists.  However, in general, we are in good shape.

For those of you who were losing sleep over it, I did, finally, get my Alien Registration Card.  I was a bit surprised at how monochromatic the ARC card is as the money in Korea is quite colorful.  However, immigration law is filled with grey areas so perhaps this is a testament to that fact.  Dunno, just glad to have it.

Dog Carriers

Speaking of our flights, we are planning to fly out of Detroit so it is just one hop.  Delta has a flight direct to Seoul from Detroit.  It’s a scenic flight up and over the continental US, Alaska, Russia, China and finally into South Korea.  Takes about 14 hours.  Our plan is to carry the dogs on the plane in little carriers and put them under the seats in front of us.  While I have some pretty significant misgivings about this plan, it seems better than shipping them as cargo and having them in the belly of the plane.  Time will tell, but I have 35 free drink coupons to distribute to those around us if this backfires horribly, and another 35 for myself.

Pak Mail

In move-related news, while much of the world’s communication has become electronic, we still get a lot of mail.  So we had to figure out what to do with all of our mail while we’re gone.  As luck would have it, we found a place in Bloomington that will rent us a mailbox and as often as we like will box up our mail and send it to us.  They will even weed out the catalogs and other items we don’t want.  However, I imagine it will only take Hammacher-Schlemmer about  48 hours to get our Korean address and start sending their catalogs to us there. 

One Day's Mail

We have been spending quite of bit of time saying goodbye to family and friends.  It is a strange sort of goodbye as it is not permanent.  If we were on a 30-year space voyage or something it would be quite different.  But it will be tough to not hug parents and friends for what might be a year.  We will be back at least once a year, but I imagine around the holidays and other important events emotions will run a little higher.  But we will persevere with Facetime and Skype and the occasional visit from our more intrepid relatives and friends.

Might be a little gap in the blog as we actually get settled, but expect a full report in early June with tales of our travel and first few nights as a family in a new country.  Now where did I put those drink tickets…?

Until next time.

Weaver