Category: travel

Travelocity vs. Korean Air

mike d. 0 Comment Blogpost, travel

Normally, I book my company travel through our travel agent at my company. It’s massively convenient. For this trip however, because of the limited advanced notice, one of my coworkers was kind enough to set my flight up for me via travelocity.

My return flight was scheduled for 8pm and I found out that there was an earlier 10am flight available. I called up travelocity to see if I could switch the flight and was informed that I would be charged $1,550. $150 for the change fee and $1400 as the change in the two ticket expenses. $1550? Whoa there, Travelocity. That seems a bit steep. I figured maybe $300 bucks or so. But $1,550? Geeze.

So I called Korean air and was able to change my flight for no charge. Free. Zero bucks. Zippo Dollars. Ixnay on the argeChay.

What the heck Travelocity?!?

Kimchi

mike d. 5 Comments Blogpost, Food, travel, Work

Of all the foods I’ve tried, it is Korean cuisine that I can’t yet appreciate.

I am currently working on the South East end of the Korean peninsula about a four hour drive from Seoul. A typical lunch for the workers here consists of a pile of white sticky rice, various vegetables covered in brine and hot chili peppers, kimchi, a meat and a soup. It’s that brine-esque, pickled vegetable stuff that I haven’t yet learned to love. and it is EVERYWHERE. 50% of most meal options are sprinkled with hot&spicy ocean flavor spices.

Yesterday, the Koreans that I’m working with requested a pizza party. So we bought them Pizzas from their favorite locale: Dominoes.

Korean Dominoes should be classified as local cuisine. Two of the pizzas had mayonaise on them, another had shrimp and unidentified yellow cubes. Squash? I’m not sure. You’d think I would be all over that mayo pizza, but I couldn’t move myself to try it.

I will be here until the 28th.