Well, not good news per se. Fun news. Big news. But not what one could truly classify as good news.
I requested off from work Nov 21 to Dec 5. It was granted.
And I got flight tickets from O’hare to Seoul to Tokyo.
Making decisions like that is harrowing. It’s expensive. But, in the end, I know I won’t regret it. My trip in ’07 was easily one of the finest times I had in my life. What I spent I found easily recompensed by the experience.
Even disregarding the fun times and just plain delightfulness of the trip, the out-on-my-own feeling is intense when I am halfway around the world from anyone I know and everything is my responsibility and I have no one to fall back on. The giddy rush of euphoria from that is amazing.
Ah, wanderlust.
I am totally going to set up trips through Imperial Palace this time though. Kinkakuji must be seen. The gold is only .0005mm deep, but it covers 2 entire floors of the building. Doing some quick (and likely fail) maths indicate that would be approx $1000 per 2 square meters. And that’s a lot of square meters. To cover the just the outside walls of my condo with that much gold would cost roughly $37,000 dollars.
Anyway, this means I won’t be in town for Thanksgiving.
And sad face at fuel prices. Downtime season tickets well in advance cost as much as peak season tickets a couple months in advance 4 years ago.
