Toby and I are sitting in the Incheon Airport (Seoul, Korea) with quite possibly the longest layover in recorded history – well, at least in our history – 12 hours and 33 minutes between flights. So, I thought I would post a few thoughts about my experiences during our trip.
I may come back and edit these – I’m working on about 2 hours of sleep over the past 30, and my thoughts may not coherent after I read them tomorrow…
Has my trip changed my perception of Vietnam? Absolutely…it is an interesting study of a modern interpretation of a national governance model that has largely disappeared. It wasn’t that long ago that the cold war was the largest threat to the U.S. I still remember reading the Civil Defense booklet in my family’s bookcase that talked about “duck and cover” and provided detailed plans for a do-it-yourself bomb shelter. Seems now the biggest threat is from terrorism and not world domination.
Update – Toby just found the World Series on the TV in the lounge we are spending some time in. We can’t read the names but I think we can follow the game just fine. Somehow the fact that we can watch the World Series live 12 timezones away from Arlington, TX seems normal – and that’s a good thing.
