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Beeftweeter posted:hello yes my wife lives in seoul and grew up in gangnam. what would you like to know oh not much I just wanted to bring some more ppl into the thread lol I am happy others are posting their south korea experiences 
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my direct to tokyo had a stop in seoul and i had to go through security, which was unexpected flight attendants just announced 'i hope your ready for an unforgettable incheon' seoul looked really cool from the air i would like to go there. i'm ready for more awkward encounters.
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leeum museum (fake-name-sounding-rear end museum) is cool & good
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I ate the steak tartare x “live octopus” dish that only tourists eat, and you know what? not bad.
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just gonna quote myself from cjsBeeftweeter posted:well poo poo this is kinda hosed up apparently you can't use US applecare+ in korea, even though they offer applecare+ there. great loving going apple, this is extremely convenient
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fart simpson posted:you wont be overwhelmed just go. you dont have forever
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Jonny 290 posted:i've never left the US and i only speak english! I'm sure it's common enough but, you know. i'm just a hillbilly this makes me sad jony you have the money and the time get a passport and just loving go, you won’t regret it
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Asymmetric POSTer posted:this makes me sad jony
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nargle's going to pass away this year and i kind of want to be there for it, okay. maybe it'll happen sooner rather than later. i said i didnt want to monopolize the thread, i'll let yall get back to it now.
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defacto travel thread I haven’t travelled too many places where it was challenging, budapest was prolly the hardest because they use the latin alphabet but you can’t “wing it”, like you kinda can in france or italy, because their language is B A N A NA S looking on a menu in italy and it says aqua? that’s water. EZPZ. many such cases but generally travel is easy because, and this is the secret - you’ve got money and someone else wants it. SEA is super easy to travel around because no matter where you look there’s someone willing to take your money to take you somewhere when we arrived in koh samui last year, i’d been but my partner hadn’t. it was late we’d been travelling for ages, and we landed, and my partner was looking on uber for a ride but couldn’t find any and it was like 10:30pm and she was getting distraught we’d struggle to get home but I wasn’t worried, turns out there were many many taxis and cars and a tuk tuk and anything you can imagine just right there hanging out for some sweet baht here’s a photo of some infrastructure 
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the thing i was not prepared for the first time i went to europe was that everything was 24 hour time. for whatever reason that was the big culture shock.
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tk posted:You can take your passport photo yourself these days. costco used to do it for something like $3, but since they got rid of their photo centers, that's not an option anymore. if you do take your own photo, use a tripod or have someone else do it vs taking a selfie, as selfies can distort your face due to the short focal length
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a big benefit of living in east asia is that lots of places are now really close and cheap to get to. i can take weekend trips to japan for next to nothing, and if i dont mind sitting on a plane for like five hours (as opposed to 20 from teh US) i can be in vietnam or cambodia etc etc
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conversely, i live on an island 4000km away from the nearest decent sized anything  
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My wife is from Seoul, but was adopted at 4 months old and hasn’t been back. We may go someday. She’s in no rush.
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do they call those little clit tickler mini-goatees a “seoul patch” over there
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echinopsis posted:do they call those little clit tickler mini-goatees a “seoul patch” over there no korean man ever has facial hair grown out
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echinopsis posted:here’s a photo of some infrastructure infrastructure 
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echinopsis posted:conversely, i live on an island 4000km away from the nearest decent sized anything owned
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i’ve been to 36 countries and I’m gonna take this post to act smug about it : 
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echinopsis posted:conversely, i live on an island 4000km away from the nearest decent sized anything i’m only 300kms away and i’ll think you’ll find my size more than adequate
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i think ive been to 17 and honestly its enough. i get the idea by now.
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i actually dont like travelling a lot but I recognize that its something that everyone should do at least a little bit of
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41, but that’s a little inflated by poo poo like a half a day in monaco and vatican city
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ye hop on a train in europe and whoops there’s 3 countries
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rotor posted:i actually dont like travelling a lot but I recognize that its something that everyone should do at least a little bit of being other places is fun getting there, especially when it involves 8+ hours on a plane plus jet lag, sucks
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The_Franz posted:being other places is fun that’s why you fly business class, duh
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The_Franz posted:being other places is fun auckland to LA loving SUCKS SCABBED UP HORSE BALLS AND THE WHOLE HORSES DICK DOWN YOUR THROAT FOR DESSERT
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did you like LA echi
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it was ok. I mean, as a city its not memorable like nyc or bangkok, it’s just a looooooooooooot of concrete. driving to LV was prolly the best part trip to the us was : staying in breckinridge with my kiwi friends who were working there over winter, flew back to LA and met my wife off the plane and we spent some time in LA, LV, flew to san fran and stayed with some ultra christian family friends, flew to miami, did a carnival cruise around the caribbean (but not cuba of course), then drove from miami to DC via tennessee, and visited nyc it was a whirlwind trip and a lotta fuckin miles on those big glorious freeways. a lot of variety for sure the biggest let down was going to white castle after having watched harold and kumar go to white castle so many times (it was the only movie I had on my video ipod lol)
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when I first arrived in LA from auckland, I was taken into customs and interrogated as to why I was flying separately from my wife. it was to visit friends I had asked for some lorazepam from my GP to help with the flight and id never had it before and I took one and then under the influence of it I took 2 more so I was absolutely zoinked when I was in customs getting interrogated so I otherwise prolly woulda been making GBS threads my pants but I did not care lmao
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i'm a seoul man
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the WORST place in the whole world I have ever visited was tijuana I forgot we also drove from LA to anchor man city and walked over to tijuana and holy poo poo I did NOT feel comfortable other bad experiences : the market in jamaica we got off the cruise boat and instead of one of the carnival excursions we walked to a nearby beach and there were just too locals and we chatted with them and that was legit awesome when we came back to the port we went to the market and oh my god, the harassment to buy their wares from every single seller was overbearing. honestly I don’t know how it doesn’t put everyone off immediately resulting in no one buying anything . in the west we generally just browse stalls and shops, and the poorer the nation the more people try to sell to you unsolicited (casual observation, could be wrong), but this jaimaca market was the worst by such a large margin
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echinopsis posted:when I first arrived in LA from auckland, I was taken into customs and interrogated as to why I was flying separately from my wife. it was to visit friends first and only time I went to LA a friend came to pick us up and got fined like $90 for getting out of the car to help with our bags in the pick up zone or something
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USA is also the only place in the world were in the middle of the country I've been stopped by dudes with big guns in camo and asked for id. I'm lucky I had some on me as we were traveling between hotels, hadn't really thought to carry it everywhere
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I once paid €8 for a diet coke outside the colleseum coz I was desperate
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echinopsis posted:I once paid €8 for a diet coke outside the colleseum coz I was desperate at jfk terminal one a couple of weeks ago, i got a beer while waiting for my flight that wound up being $18. apparently that is down from a couple of years ago, when prices were getting so ridiculous, that the port authority actually cracked down and said they can only charge something like 10% over "typical street price". it wasn't a high abv stout or ipa or anything like that, just a standard pale ale
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distortion park posted:first and only time I went to LA a friend came to pick us up and got fined like $90 for getting out of the car to help with our bags in the pick up zone or something The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.
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distortion park posted:USA is also the only place in the world were in the middle of the country I've been stopped by dudes with big guns in camo and asked for id. I'm lucky I had some on me as we were traveling between hotels, hadn't really thought to carry it everywhere harassing the people manning those inland border patrol checkpoints are one of the very few times that sovereign citizen types are in the right
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Jonny 290 posted:nargle's going to pass away this year and i kind of want to be there for it, okay. maybe it'll happen sooner rather than later. i said i didnt want to monopolize the thread, i'll let yall get back to it now. if you want easy mode travelling, go to some other anglo country first. have you never been even to canada? imbibe of their subtly different donuts and marvel at their healthcare before going to a rich-but-doesnt-speak-your-language country. going to poor countries becomes more difficult but is still worthwhile lotta rich peep bullshit is just bullshit. travel ain't bob dobbs is dead fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Mar 1, 2024 |
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