The Motherland: South Korea 2012
I've always said if you were raised by wolves, you would grow up believing you are a wolf. I happened to be raised by lower-middle-class white people... Therefore, I am... My parents told me I was, Korean , but what that actually meant, was definitely lost on me... Thirty six years later, I found myself boarding a plane to Seoul with my girlfriend, a "REAL" Korean to embark on what I now realize was the most significant trip of my life... I've always enjoyed traveling, seeing, experiencing, living... It's the task of getting there that's always bothered me. I do not enjoy the experience of flying. I fly because, driving takes too long... Up to this point in my life, my only long-distance traveling has been across the Atlantic to Europe. I think 8 hours is the longest I've spent sitting on a plane, and that was unpleasant enough. Our schedule flight from Chicago to Seoul was schedule flight time of 14 hours. Traveling with someone else...
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