Almost didn't make it to Canada but titling this entry as "the Great Race" doesn't quite fit cause though it's tale now makes for a great story, it was anything but great when it was occurring.
So here's what was supposed to go down:
8am bus to Incheon Airport
10am arrive at the airport and check-in
12:40pm fly to Japan... then to San Francisco, and then to Toronto, Canada.
Snickers stayed up all night so that he wouldn't miss our bus and I was sure the 8am bus would get us there with plenty of time. Well, we got the 8am bus but plenty of time wasn't in the cards.
It started raining during the bus ride. It rained and rained... and flooded. It flooded the streets, stopping cars in their tracks and causing numerous accidents. No word of a lie, buses parked beside the river in Seoul were 80% under water!!!
Our expected two-hour bus ride turned into three but when the driver got out of the bus I knew something was up. Traffic had come to a complete halt and the 7am bus was only but two cars ahead of us.
"There is no way I'm missing our flight!" I told Snickers and with that we decided to jump off the bus.
The bus driver showed pity on us and gave us his umbrella. We then grabbed our luggage, jumped over the highway barrier and ran across four lanes of oncoming highway traffic only to walk 20 minutes back the way we came but on the shoulder of the highway.
Running INTO highway traffic and then ALONG side it... I definitely don't recommend that to anyone!!!
Twenty minutes back was a subway entrance. Snickers jumped the subway entrance gate, as did I. Security alarms sounded but we kept on going, like I said there was no way we were going to miss our flight. We were on a mission. Jumping the entrance and hitching a free ride means you have to jump the exit and so we did, even with a full crowd of people witnessing the whole thing. When we finally arrived to the airport we checked-in but we then had to head over to another terminal, a forty minute commute within the airport vaccinities.
Turns out we weren't the only ones late so a lot of flights out of Korea had been delayed. Boarded our 12:40pm flight at exactly 12:52pm. We were the very last to board but we probably were the happiest people to board that flight.
... and the rest was smooth sailing, well smooth flying in this case.
QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What's worth the fight for to you?
QUOTE OF THE DAY...
Just do it.
-- Nike
As the story has it, one day I headed to the opposite side of the globe – the Flipside. I arrived in Korea February 16th, 2005 and thought I’d do a year, then leave. I was wrong. I stayed, launched my first company, Flipside Fitness, and then opened Korea's largest boxing club, Hulk's Boxing (now called Hulk's Club).
After 11.5yrs in Korea, I then picked up one day and returned to Toronto, Canada. But then I left again.
Now I live in the Philippines where I am the CEO and head coach of Empowered Clubhouse, the Philippines' first and only boxing clubhouse exclusively just for women. I also am the founder of the Lil' Sistas Project, CEO and designer of Slay Gear and Baa Baa Black Sheep .Ph.
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