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Trip to and from Thailand - My flight was late from RNO to SFO, and my plane to South Korea left without me. I had the runaround with both airline companies for about an hour, before one of them finally put me on an emergency exit seat (so super spacious) to Tokyo. I sat next to a giant weeaboo but it was all good. - Lost or got my ATM card stolen without me noticing a couple weeks into my 3 month stay in Thailand. Such a hassle. I was living on a single meal a day of 30 baht soups sold outside a nearby 7-11 at night for about 1.5 weeks. I ended up convincing a local Thai bank to open an account for me so I could wire money to it. I think it may be illegal that they opened an account but I'm not 100% sure. No money was stolen luckily. Also lucky was that I prepaid my reservations. My host family loaned me 10,000 baht to help out as well. - On the day I was supposed to leave via HKT (Phuket airport) to South Korea, HKT was closed for maintenance for 2 days meaning every flight was cancelled (second world countries I guess  ). I ended up overstaying my reservation at my bungelow by 2 days, but for the inconvenience they put me on a business class flight to South Korea when it reopened.- Once I got to South Korea (I was there for a transfer flight only) more problems arose. Because my round trip ticket was now 2 days expired, I was temporarily stuck in a country that had an administrative office person that knew no English which was a serious problem. It took 6 hours for them to finally figure out that the airport was closed from my destination, so it was necessary for them to give me a ticket back home. The next flight to SFO was something like 12 hours out. I ended up sleeping in a bathroom stall for 4 hours (I was worried my luggage would get stolen, I don't know much about South Korea) and then on a terminal bench for another 4, and I still had to sit for more 4 hours at the airport. - I finally boarded the plane, and I had a ~12 hour flight with a 1-2 year old toddler sitting next to me. Luckily the little guy was awesome and I gave him my pillow and he was quiet and talkative with me the whole time until he fell asleep. Trip from Hawaii - Spilled an entire can of soda onto my socks 1 hour after leaving Hawaii so over the Pacific. I had something like 8-9 hours of flight left and my socks and shoes were completely soaked and sticky the entire night flight. It wasn't fun trying to sleep. - Sat in LAX for 6 hours after acclimating to Hawaiian weather with sticky socks and shoes. I've gotten lucky with traveler's diarrhea. Even months of eating sketchy street food and weeks of eating a heavy fruit diet I'm not sure that I got it, or if I did maybe for a night.
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