Ready to head home...

I am all packed up, except for (of course) this computer, and ready to head home. My flight is at 4pm, Saturday afternoon... gets me into to Vancouver at 11am Saturday morning. Then I have about a 4 hour lay-over, and finally get in to Ottawa just before midnight Saturday. It looks like I get to have, either, two Saturdays or one very very long Saturday. I plan to sleep on the flight over the Pacific, and make it two Saturdays.

I'm really looking forward to getting home -- but won't be there for long. A week in Ottawa, then off to California for a week, followed by Penguicon in Detroit(ish) on the way home.

Hopefully I'll get to spend more of May in Ottawa. I think I need to insist on it, actually.

YVR

And, back in Canada. I've got a few hours here in Vancouver, before my flight to Ottawa. Not a tight connection, so it didn't really matter that my flight from Incheon was 1/2 an hour late getting in. Also, whoever was doing the French announcements probably had worse French than me -- I guess Asian second languages are more of a priority for staff on the flight than French.

ICN

Specifically the Asiana lounge, which seems the lounge for every airline here, waiting for my flight.

Apparently, I should have bought soju in town, where it was cheap, rather than at the duty free, where they didn't have anything under $16, and it went rapidly up from there. So, bought Scotch instead -- replacing one that I like a lot, but have finished, the Aberlour A'bunadh.

I took a bus to the airport, rather than a taxi, so we wandered along a lot more secondary highways, rather than the toll roads. This was nice, as I got to see more of South Korea, or at least, the area around Seoul. In general, still lots and lots of high-rise apartments, but not as completely so as in Dongtan. (Dongtan is called, "Dongtan New City", and in comparison it definitely is very newish.) I saw more mid-rise and low-rise apartment buildings, and the very rare detached house. Generally, the only things that looked at all ramshackle were some semi-agricultural bits, and some business bits. Everything residential looked in quite good shape. Also, I was surprised at how few motorcycles or scooters I saw -- most vehicles were cars, and generally decent-sized cars with a fair admixture of SUVs. South Korea is, quite definitely, a generally wealthy country -- at least around Seoul.