Our final breakfast in Aria at the Westin Josun Hotel. Had my final Shanghai Soup Dumpling breakfast.  Best yet. Final look outside our hotel window. Goodbye Westin Josun Seoul. Taxis in Seoul have foot warming heat. Don't know what in Seoul. This is the 63 SQUARE building, when it was first opened in 1985 was the tallest outside of North America, at 819 feet. and was built as a landmark for the 1988 Summer Olympics.  Remained as South Korea's tallest until 2003. The tallest in South Korea is now the Lotte World Tower at 1,821 feet, and 6th in the world. Seoul air pollution. I occurred to me that we were passing a lot of bridges over the Han River.  I later checked and found that there are 27 of these bridges.  So halfway into our ride to the airport I  began taking photos. Other roadside objects. This The Giant. I was waiting to take a video of what looked like a huge phallic symbol as you drive into Inchon Airport.   It'a gone.  It was controver...

Yesterday morning was that one crucial moment when we were scheduled to test for covid through a Zoom session using a company in New York City.  First, I'm a klutz when it comes to linking with Zoom.  However, I somehow succeeded. He told us what to do....and we both tested negative.  My one major worry about our entire trip is now over. However, life is not so simple.  He had to send me an e-mail informing us of this test, and I needed to respond to see a message indicating I was negative.  Every so often my Hotmail goes weird, and I could not get his message, but instead saw e-mails of seven years ago.  A few frantic attempts until something else occurred, and could read his response and confirm my existence.  We took a photo of our success, which was supposedly sufficient for boarding the ship.  However, I wanted to have a hard copy, so went to the Executive Lounge to do this.  Could not, so I asked for help, and one of the staff members t...