I’ll be honest. We have not gotten out and about much. However, where we live is pretty interesting, so I grabbed a couple of quick shots to give you a taste of it all, so to speak.
So, we made it to Korea. What next?
The good news is that we have jobs and a place to live. The bad news however is that those two things are all we have.
We barely made it through Japan, and arrived in Korea tired, battered, broke and ready for a change. We certainly got it here, and dear Jesus there is potential in this city. The catch is simply that we have to survive somehow until our jobs kick in and we get that first sweet paycheck. As soon as we have some loot in our pocket then we can burn this mother fucker down. But until then we’ll be living off free rice in our guesthouse, wandering the streets for fun, and basically just sticking it out.
Hang in there with us and we promise we make up for it double when we get that first paycheck.
Today we launched the newest iteration in a very long series of web designs with substantial help from our friend, designer Andy Collins. Check out his portfolio at inrgbwetrust.com.
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After the most hassle-free trip of my entire life, we’ve arrived in Seoul, Korea. Nothing went wrong, nothing. I think it’s a Friday the 13th weirdness thing– on this day, against all of our previous experiences traveling and relocating, absolutely everything went well. We made the 10:20 bus, got all of our bags in the plane without overage charges, made the flight– hell, even the in-flight food was delicious (octopus and rice with a spicy red sauce). Then we took a pleasant bus from a pleasant airport, through a scintillating city, to two cabs, to our guesthouse. That’s it. Nothing more.
Maybe one more thing. Our accommodations are incredibly small. About the size of a cramped walk-in closet. And mine smells vaguely like urine.
I am so goddamn excited to start over in this city.
This is the room. All of it.
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Massachusetts is almost done with winter, but in one last ditch effort to kill me it has sent the sickness my way. SE0204 was scheduled for tomorrow morning, but I doubt it will be there. My guess is late this week or during the weekend.
With a lucky stroke, this morning the credit card went through. That means we won’t need to beg our way out of jail on Saturday, or be stuck in the streets of Seoul Sunday. We have tickets, housing and jobs ready for Korea.
Tokyo is never satisfied with having trendy bars or hot clubs. No, the city always has to take it one step farther than necessary.
Secret bars are one of the latest trends to emerge on scene in Tokyo. These places are tiny, have no name, no sign on the door, no advertising, and cater to people so hip that going to a bar that is merely famous or trendy is a waste of their time.
Our visas will expire on Friday. We have to leave before then. Unfortunately, right now we need $1,600.00 to buy five plane tickets to Seoul, Korea by 3pm tomorrow, and thanks to Japan’s unnecessarily complicated financial system, we cannot use a credit card. If we were Japanese, I guess we could, but we’re not.
ATM rules limit us to only two $500.00 withdrawals in the short amount of time we have between this moment and the time these tickets expire. We have two options: Figure out how to take 300 lb.s of baggage on a small commuter train to Osaka, or find a generous Japanese person to lend us $500.00 for four hours until we can withdraw and repay them.
I had imagined at some point in Tokyo to have to ask for money from a Japanese person. I hadn’t imagined it would be $500.00.
Update: Spring forward, fall back. If it were an hour earlier, we could withdraw again. But it’s 1:00am in the US right now so now we need $1,000.00.
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