Traveling to South Korea from the United States is far more than "just a 13 hour flight". I've traveled enough (both domestically and abroad) over the last few years to know you should always give yourself extra time between each leg of your journey. However, the longer you travel, the more these unexpectedly add up. I got up at 6:45AM on Tuesday, July 29th and was prepped for the following itinerary:
- Leave home in Cedarburg, Wisconsin at 7:45AM CST to make it to Mitchell Airport (35min)
- Catch flight from Milwaukee, Wisconsin at 10:30AM CST to Chicago, Illinois. (2h 45m)
- Sit at the O'Hare Airport for ~2 hours. (5h, and we haven't even left the US yet...)
- Catch the 12h 40m flight from Chicago, Illinois to Tokyo, Japan (17h 40m)
- Sit at the Narita Airport for ~1h 30m (19h)
- Catch the 3h flight from Tokyo, Japan to Seoul, South Korea (22h)
- Catch a bus from Incheon Airport to Daejeon, where I would connect with CJ. (24h)
So
hypothetically this should only take me around 24 hours of traveling, right? Wrong. So very, very wrong. Catching all of my connecting flights went over very smoothly. However, I am neither graceful, fast-moving, nor collected when I am juggling a purse, a computer bag, a 65L backpack, a suitcase, and a second 75L hiking backpack zipped in a carrying case.
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| Packed and ready to go! |
