I am writing this from our Airbnb in Hakodate! A bit later than we’d planned, but at least we’re here now.
I won’t go into too much detail about the delays, but the short version is that the morning that we were supposed to leave Korea, I almost blacked out sitting on the toilet. Then I spent several hours tossing and turning in bed before my fever finally weakened enough for me to take in anything more than sips of water, by which point the plane that we were supposed to have been on was halfway to Japan.
Luckily, things were far less stressful than they could’ve been; our Airbnb in Korea approved two extra days almost immediately after we requested them, and then our host rang the doorbell with some medicine and a sports drink for hydration! That may have been the only thing standing between us and me having to go to a Korean hospital, which would’ve been a whole extra hassle.
We booked another flight two days later,1 and luckily I was feeling totally fine by yesterday. We were worried Cassie was going to catch it, but we feel like now the danger has passed, so praise God for that!
- Which was actually its own hassle; we booked on a Korean airline with basically no customer support, so when things wound up going wrong, we had to enlist our friends in Korea to make sure we actually had booked flights. Ugh! ↩︎