Day 206 - AAAAAARRGH.

Spent the day dealing with trying to change our flight from Bangkok to Seattle. As booked, we have a 10 hour layover in Seoul. Seoul sounds like a pretty neat city. We would like to change our ticket so that instead of a 10 hour layover, we have a a few days to explore. You would think this would be easy. This was easy with both Turkish Air and with Malaysian Air when we needed to change those flights. Apparently it is beyond Delta's capabilities.

As of now, having spent hours (literally) on the phone with Delta representatives from Thailand, Korea, and the US, we still have a 10 hour layover in Seoul.

Remember how I said I didn't know what I was going to do when I had to deal with domestic airlines? Tearing my hair out seems about right.

AND my favourite fish-and-soup lady wasn't open today.

AND Cz's memory cards caught a virus, which made loading pictures nearly impossible, not to mention the possibility of having lost ALL of the pictures he's taken since the trip began.

I consoled myself with a pumpkin custard. And a visit with N, the Brit girl we met while trekking in Nepal. She's in Thailand now, doing a similar circuit to us, but in the opposite direction. We plan to meet up again in Laos when we expect our paths to cross again. The visit was a nice bright spot in an otherwise disastrous day.

Update: We do now, in fact, have tickets to Korea. We will be visiting Seoul from Feb7-12. We might be paying dearly to do it, but perhaps this little episode will be what convinces the publishers to give me lots of money for an advance on the book.

Karma says that's what should happen.