Noflight World Tour
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Book Introduction
When I changed my travel speed, the scenery I saw changed too.
A 30,000-kilometer journey that allowed me to experience the breadth and depth of human civilization.
A history buff journalist's realistic travelogue
The author takes a ferry from Incheon to China, then travels through Central Asia, Russia, and Europe, then crosses the Atlantic Ocean on a cruise to Seattle, USA, on a 111-day journey.
How different would the world be if we traveled by train, boat, and car?
In an age where we can get anywhere in a day by taking a plane, what kind of inspiration will 'no-flight travel' give us?
The author recommends taking a boat instead of a plane to nearby Jeju Island or Japan.
Because I feel that the scenery and people that gradually change like a rainbow spectrum resemble life.
Our lives, like airplane travel, do not arrive at our destination in one go.
It's hard to go from employee to CEO in a single step, or jump from rags to riches in a single moment, and you don't age from 20 to 40 in a single moment.
This journey, in which we find our own path and take one step at a time, is so enjoyable that once we start, we can't stop reading, and it shakes up many of our prejudices.
For readers who sometimes doubt 'burnout' and contemplate 'living their own life,' travel will provide the most powerful inspiration that can be given.
A 30,000-kilometer journey that allowed me to experience the breadth and depth of human civilization.
A history buff journalist's realistic travelogue
The author takes a ferry from Incheon to China, then travels through Central Asia, Russia, and Europe, then crosses the Atlantic Ocean on a cruise to Seattle, USA, on a 111-day journey.
How different would the world be if we traveled by train, boat, and car?
In an age where we can get anywhere in a day by taking a plane, what kind of inspiration will 'no-flight travel' give us?
The author recommends taking a boat instead of a plane to nearby Jeju Island or Japan.
Because I feel that the scenery and people that gradually change like a rainbow spectrum resemble life.
Our lives, like airplane travel, do not arrive at our destination in one go.
It's hard to go from employee to CEO in a single step, or jump from rags to riches in a single moment, and you don't age from 20 to 40 in a single moment.
This journey, in which we find our own path and take one step at a time, is so enjoyable that once we start, we can't stop reading, and it shakes up many of our prejudices.
For readers who sometimes doubt 'burnout' and contemplate 'living their own life,' travel will provide the most powerful inspiration that can be given.
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Prologue_Introducing Noflight World Travel
Travel itinerary
In the Strait of Gibraltar
1 China
01 Ferry crossing the West Sea
02 Tsingtao Beer Museum
03 High-speed Train Paradise
04 Hangzhou and Marco Polo
05 Wuhan's air
06 Stranded at the Three Gorges Dam
07 General Stilwell of Chongqing
08 From Chongqing to Urumqi
09 Don't make Korean people angry
2 Central Asia and Russia
10 Lovely Almaty
11 The medicine is Soviet-made
12 Kazakh-Uzbek night trains
13 Civilization seen in Samarkand
14 Volga-Tashkent Railway
15 ruble exchange show
16 Goddess of War
17 BlaBlaCar to Vladikavkaz
18 Watching Korean soccer at a Georgia laundromat
19 Batumi swimming training
3 Europe and Cruises
20 Give me my wallet
21 To meet the Mediterranean
22 Escape from Rhodes
23 Crete
24 Athens Sports Day
25 A country where God prays to humans
26 To Italy!
27 I recommend Puglia
28 Turin
29 Porcini mushrooms
30 In Search of Marco Polo's House
31 Transatlantic
32 slips of the tongue
33 Basketball Player Grandmother
4 United States
34 Psychologist at Art Basel
35 Rocket Launch 1
36 Rocket Launch 2
37 There is rice in the rice cooker
38 Martin Luther King's sarcophagus
39 Opera? Opry!
40 Gateway Arch and Christmas Gifts
41 Omaha, Warren Buffett's home
42 nuclear missile launch sites
43 Mount Rushmore
Officer 44 Wallace
45 Following the Lewis and Clark Expedition
A Beginner's Guide to Traveling Around the World
Epilogue
Travel itinerary
In the Strait of Gibraltar
1 China
01 Ferry crossing the West Sea
02 Tsingtao Beer Museum
03 High-speed Train Paradise
04 Hangzhou and Marco Polo
05 Wuhan's air
06 Stranded at the Three Gorges Dam
07 General Stilwell of Chongqing
08 From Chongqing to Urumqi
09 Don't make Korean people angry
2 Central Asia and Russia
10 Lovely Almaty
11 The medicine is Soviet-made
12 Kazakh-Uzbek night trains
13 Civilization seen in Samarkand
14 Volga-Tashkent Railway
15 ruble exchange show
16 Goddess of War
17 BlaBlaCar to Vladikavkaz
18 Watching Korean soccer at a Georgia laundromat
19 Batumi swimming training
3 Europe and Cruises
20 Give me my wallet
21 To meet the Mediterranean
22 Escape from Rhodes
23 Crete
24 Athens Sports Day
25 A country where God prays to humans
26 To Italy!
27 I recommend Puglia
28 Turin
29 Porcini mushrooms
30 In Search of Marco Polo's House
31 Transatlantic
32 slips of the tongue
33 Basketball Player Grandmother
4 United States
34 Psychologist at Art Basel
35 Rocket Launch 1
36 Rocket Launch 2
37 There is rice in the rice cooker
38 Martin Luther King's sarcophagus
39 Opera? Opry!
40 Gateway Arch and Christmas Gifts
41 Omaha, Warren Buffett's home
42 nuclear missile launch sites
43 Mount Rushmore
Officer 44 Wallace
45 Following the Lewis and Clark Expedition
A Beginner's Guide to Traveling Around the World
Epilogue
Into the book
In transportation studies, it is generally said that for distances that take more than five hours by train, it is more efficient to take an airplane.
This is why the United States invests in air transport rather than railways.
But nothing can replace the unique charm of rail transportation.
The train is equal for everyone.
Anyone, regardless of age or gender, can easily ride it.
Even an 80-year-old person or a 15-year-old child can ride a train alone, and even people with disabilities, the poor, and the illiterate can easily ride a train.
Airplanes are not like that.
Airplanes are not easily accessible to the elderly, children, the poor, and those with a lot of luggage.
In other words, because railways have great advantages in terms of universal transportation, in a society like China where people with diverse education and living standards must live together, railways play an important social integration function.
--- p.33
Even though 800 years have passed, the way Chinese people enjoy West Lake has not changed much.
Perhaps enjoying a beautiful view, eating delicious food, and spending time with close friends are the most primal and fundamental pleasures of human society.
--- p.37
In Central Asia, when I got off at the train station, everyone stared at me as a foreigner, wanted to sell me something, or wanted to take me in their taxi (at a ridiculous price). But here in Russia, no one pays any attention to me.
There is no one to harass, but no one tries to help first.
That's not bad either.
The problem is that I have no way to buy a bottle of water right now.
My throat is parched
--- p.124
Refugees are indistinguishable from locals at first glance.
These are just ordinary middle class people living in the Middle East, but they seem to be trying to move to Europe for economic reasons.
I don't feel like I'm starving or being persecuted or anything like that.
His appearance is not shabby at all.
--- p.178
Some people might think that being stuck on a ship for two weeks would be boring, but for me, that boredom is something I look forward to and welcome.
Because I didn't have a single day of rest while crossing the Eurasian continent for 2 months and 11 days.
I've endured the hardships with the thoughts, 'If I just take a cruise, it'll be heaven', 'Let's just suffer until the cruise', 'Let's just relax on the cruise and do whatever I want', and now it's time to receive the rewards.
For the next two weeks, I will strictly follow the cruise's instructions.
I promise to live like a baby.
Eat, sleep, eat, sleep.
--- p.244
As I got out of the taxi and paid the 60 euros as written on the sign, something like tears welled up in the eyes of the elderly driver.
He looks at me, is silent for a few seconds, and then says, “Thank you, very much.”
I could feel how difficult it must have been for him while cruise ships were suspended due to the coronavirus.
--- p.265
The concept of Noflight World Travel was to experience the size of the Earth and the breadth and depth of human civilization with my own body.
Having traveled through China and the Silk Road, seen the Mycenaean civilization on the island of Crete, and now even seen the Falcon rocket, the key to future civilization, I feel like I've roughly achieved my goal.
Now we can get a rough idea of what kind of species we humans are.
--- p.302
“While walking down the street, you may enter a dangerous area without knowing it.
When you feel the surrounding atmosphere is suspicious, it is better to move quickly rather than staying in one place for too long.
So that others don't have a chance to feel bad towards me.
Wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap to hide your expression is one way to feel more comfortable in a foreign country.
Accidents rarely occur in places that appear dangerous because everyone is careful.
On the contrary, it seems that many accidents occur when people let their guard down and let their guard down in countries that appear safe on the outside.
In Western Europe, pickpocketing, petty theft, and random assaults are not uncommon.
There is also racial discrimination.
Also, public safety in major American cities has become relatively worse.
A lot of cars are also stolen.
You have to be careful about this part.
--- p.393
"At the end of the trip, someone asked,
I wonder if there has been any change in my life after 111 days of travel.
Now, I think of all the Koreans I meet in Korea as foreigners.
Whenever I bumped into someone on the street, saw someone cut me off roughly while driving, or had a disagreement about something, I tended to get stressed out a lot.
But when I think, 'It's not that that person hates me, we just have different habits and cultures,' my anger subsides.
Now, I want to live my life with more meaning and laughter, giving more meaning to the small acts of kindness from others.
--- p.398
I started to think that maybe I had been living too trapped in the worldview of office workers.
I've made a living by creating and sharing content about things like how to get promoted quickly at work, how to build a successful career, and how companies can make money, and I think I've become a bit of a human business platform.
Of course, that's important and valuable, but it was nice to be able to get away from that 'company worldview' a little while traveling.
Among the 8 billion people on the planet, there are only a very small number of office workers.
This is why the United States invests in air transport rather than railways.
But nothing can replace the unique charm of rail transportation.
The train is equal for everyone.
Anyone, regardless of age or gender, can easily ride it.
Even an 80-year-old person or a 15-year-old child can ride a train alone, and even people with disabilities, the poor, and the illiterate can easily ride a train.
Airplanes are not like that.
Airplanes are not easily accessible to the elderly, children, the poor, and those with a lot of luggage.
In other words, because railways have great advantages in terms of universal transportation, in a society like China where people with diverse education and living standards must live together, railways play an important social integration function.
--- p.33
Even though 800 years have passed, the way Chinese people enjoy West Lake has not changed much.
Perhaps enjoying a beautiful view, eating delicious food, and spending time with close friends are the most primal and fundamental pleasures of human society.
--- p.37
In Central Asia, when I got off at the train station, everyone stared at me as a foreigner, wanted to sell me something, or wanted to take me in their taxi (at a ridiculous price). But here in Russia, no one pays any attention to me.
There is no one to harass, but no one tries to help first.
That's not bad either.
The problem is that I have no way to buy a bottle of water right now.
My throat is parched
--- p.124
Refugees are indistinguishable from locals at first glance.
These are just ordinary middle class people living in the Middle East, but they seem to be trying to move to Europe for economic reasons.
I don't feel like I'm starving or being persecuted or anything like that.
His appearance is not shabby at all.
--- p.178
Some people might think that being stuck on a ship for two weeks would be boring, but for me, that boredom is something I look forward to and welcome.
Because I didn't have a single day of rest while crossing the Eurasian continent for 2 months and 11 days.
I've endured the hardships with the thoughts, 'If I just take a cruise, it'll be heaven', 'Let's just suffer until the cruise', 'Let's just relax on the cruise and do whatever I want', and now it's time to receive the rewards.
For the next two weeks, I will strictly follow the cruise's instructions.
I promise to live like a baby.
Eat, sleep, eat, sleep.
--- p.244
As I got out of the taxi and paid the 60 euros as written on the sign, something like tears welled up in the eyes of the elderly driver.
He looks at me, is silent for a few seconds, and then says, “Thank you, very much.”
I could feel how difficult it must have been for him while cruise ships were suspended due to the coronavirus.
--- p.265
The concept of Noflight World Travel was to experience the size of the Earth and the breadth and depth of human civilization with my own body.
Having traveled through China and the Silk Road, seen the Mycenaean civilization on the island of Crete, and now even seen the Falcon rocket, the key to future civilization, I feel like I've roughly achieved my goal.
Now we can get a rough idea of what kind of species we humans are.
--- p.302
“While walking down the street, you may enter a dangerous area without knowing it.
When you feel the surrounding atmosphere is suspicious, it is better to move quickly rather than staying in one place for too long.
So that others don't have a chance to feel bad towards me.
Wearing sunglasses and a baseball cap to hide your expression is one way to feel more comfortable in a foreign country.
Accidents rarely occur in places that appear dangerous because everyone is careful.
On the contrary, it seems that many accidents occur when people let their guard down and let their guard down in countries that appear safe on the outside.
In Western Europe, pickpocketing, petty theft, and random assaults are not uncommon.
There is also racial discrimination.
Also, public safety in major American cities has become relatively worse.
A lot of cars are also stolen.
You have to be careful about this part.
--- p.393
"At the end of the trip, someone asked,
I wonder if there has been any change in my life after 111 days of travel.
Now, I think of all the Koreans I meet in Korea as foreigners.
Whenever I bumped into someone on the street, saw someone cut me off roughly while driving, or had a disagreement about something, I tended to get stressed out a lot.
But when I think, 'It's not that that person hates me, we just have different habits and cultures,' my anger subsides.
Now, I want to live my life with more meaning and laughter, giving more meaning to the small acts of kindness from others.
--- p.398
I started to think that maybe I had been living too trapped in the worldview of office workers.
I've made a living by creating and sharing content about things like how to get promoted quickly at work, how to build a successful career, and how companies can make money, and I think I've become a bit of a human business platform.
Of course, that's important and valuable, but it was nice to be able to get away from that 'company worldview' a little while traveling.
Among the 8 billion people on the planet, there are only a very small number of office workers.
--- p.399
Publisher's Review
“A record of geographical exploration and human curiosity.”
〈No Flight World Travel〉 is a record of geographical exploration and curiosity about humanity, with the desire to “see this planet I live on, Earth, at a different speed and in a different way.”
The motivation for the trip began with the author's experience of traveling overland for part of the journey (China-Pakistan) while studying abroad in Oxford, England in 2008.
The 'overland border crossing' that I tried without thinking left a deep impression on a Korean who has lived on the peninsula his entire life.
In 2022, I traveled by car across the United States (LA-Chicago).
It was a transatlantic cruise that led me to the challenge of a no-flight world tour, following two long-distance overland journeys.
In the fall of 2023, when I was feeling tired from work and my health was deteriorating, I revisited the idea of 'travel without taking a plane' and looked for a transatlantic cruise line.
What did the author see and what happened on the 'no-flight' trip he attempted at a turning point in his life?
We present seven scenes from the journey, seen through the passion of an adventurer and the insight of a journalist.
1.
Follow Marco Polo's journey and discover history and civilization.
In Hangzhou, China, we tour the West Lake while reading Marco Polo's Travels.
The scenery of West Lake recorded by Polo 800 years ago is not much different from today's West Lake.
The coincidence that Polo's journey and the author's journey overlap is also surprising.
In Italy and Greece, the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire is evoked, while the crossing of America follows the Lewis and Clark expedition's western expansion route.
At the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and the Jimmy Carter Center, we see "Black America" and "White America."
2.
Crossing Central Asian borders and the Russian currency exchange commotion
From Kazakhstan through Uzbekistan and Russia to Georgia.
Will he be able to safely cross all borders? The author, after much effort, finds train and bus routes that cross borders, and uses a car-sharing app to arrange private taxis for places without public transportation.
I also had an awkward situation where I was thrown between dozens of taxi drivers trying to pick up a single tourist.
In Russia, ATMs do not allow you to withdraw cash, and they do not exchange dollars for rubles.
As I faced the crisis of not being able to buy even a sip of water, I felt the aftereffects of war and economic sanctions with my whole body.
After experiencing the 'Tearful Currency Exchange' and meeting Central Asian people of mixed languages and ethnicities on the train, the author is forced to reconsider the meaning of borders.
I also think that Korea, where one nation, one language, and one set of interests are taken for granted, is quite exceptional.
3.
Testing Your Physical Limits: A 51-Hour Train Ride and Russian Antibiotics
The Chinese and Central Asian continents were mainly traveled by train.
I'm confident in my stamina, but there are always variables involved in long distance travel.
In China, I had to take a 33-hour train ride while infected with a coronavirus variant, and the 51-hour journey from Bukhara, Uzbekistan, to Volgograd, Russia, was on a freezing train with broken heating.
The symptoms of the coronavirus variant, which did not improve no matter how much medicine was taken, were cured immediately after an 'accidental' overdose of Russian antibiotics.
4.
Greece, a fun country, Italy, a country I want to live in
Greece, a hip country in disarray due to influx of refugees and gentrification.
So, a country that wants to be friends with, a country of true maritime people who consider not only the land but also the sea (Aegean Sea) as their territory.
Greece is one of the countries that left the author with the most vivid memories.
Boarding the cruise ship in Rhodes was the biggest challenge of “No Flight World Tour.”
The ship was almost missed between the maritime authorities who tried to prevent the refugees, who were apparently indistinguishable from tourists, from boarding the ship and the refugees who were desperately trying to get on board.
The author chose Italy as the country he would like to live in, aside from Korea.
“In Italy, even drinking a cup of coffee is an important and special thing.
The people are cute too.
“I like places like that.”
5.
Take a transatlantic cruise aboard the Nieuwsteidendamm
What would a mega cruise with 3,000 passengers and 1,000 crew look like?
The author is eagerly awaiting the cruise.
Because it is a rare opportunity to rest one's body and mind, tired from traveling by land.
A place where you can eat, sleep, and play while enjoying various cruise facilities and daily meals, so you can become a 'cruise baby'.
'Single Night' is a place where single grandmothers who have already seen off their grandfathers appear.
However, he suffers the humiliation of losing a basketball game with his grandmother.
In a lecture given by a proud shipping company that fed and housed thousands of soldiers three meals a day even under extreme conditions during World War II, we learn about the 'essence of business.'
6.
SpaceX rockets, the Grand Ole Missile Show, and the Delta Nuclear Missile Base
After seeing the Mycenaean civilization on the island of Crete via China and the Silk Road, we head to the Kennedy Space Center in the United States, which holds the key to future civilization.
To see the SpaceX rocket launch site in person.
After the launch was canceled once due to technical issues, there was no indication of when the launch would take place, but the author waited patiently while reading Elon Musk's biography and finally watched the Falcon 9 launch.
“It is said that when Genghis Khan led his cavalry and ruled the Eurasian continent, his army had 3 million horses.
In other words, the Yuan Dynasty was an empire that operated a force of 3 million horsepower.
The rocket the U.S. government used to launch the space shuttle Atlantis reportedly had 37 million horsepower.
Elon Musk's large spaceship Starship, which he is preparing, is said to have a power of over 40 million horsepower, which is equivalent to 70 percent of the power of all the horses on Earth.
If you measure power by energy consumption, Elon Musk alone has more than ten times the power of Genghis Khan.”
Traveling without taking a plane can also take us to unexpected places.
One of them is the Grand Ole Free Show, a country music venue in Nashville, Tennessee.
Listening to Don Schlitz, the creator of the hit song “The Gambler,” sing the song himself, the author says, “There is no need to live your life comparing yourself to others to see if your life is successful or not.
We learn the wisdom of life: “Life’s final accounting is done when you die.”
“If you’re going to play, you better learn it properly, kid.
Know when to hold your cards, know when to fold your cards,
You have to know when to get up and when to jump
Never count money while sitting at the table.
After all the deals are done, there is plenty of time to count the money.
While looking at the map, I stumbled upon a travel destination.
Delta Missile Site, a US nuclear missile launch site during the Cold War.
Surprisingly, it is also open to the public.
If you go down to the bunker 10 meters underground, there is a control room inside an iron door that looks like it is about 1 meter thick.
The iron gate, which cannot be opened by human power, has a picture of a Domino's pizza box with a missile inside, and the words "Delivery anywhere in the world within 30 minutes."
Otherwise, the next delivery is free.”
7 Traces of 'Small Town America' and Korea
In Atlanta, Georgia, the presence of our country's Kia Motors, which has deeply penetrated the local community, can be felt by opening an automobile factory in West Point, a poor town suffering from unemployment.
The villagers were happy to have jobs and said, “Thank you, God.
They say they put up a sign that said, “Thank you Jesus for bringing Kia to our town.”
As you pass through rural American towns, you will encounter many traces of the Korean War, also known as the "Forgotten War."
In the town square of Broken Bow, a small town in Nebraska, there is a monument honoring the young men who died in the Korean War, with this inscription:
“Go and tell him.
“You are free because we served and died.”
(GO AND TELL THE PEOPLE THAT WE SERVED AND DIED. SO YOU MIGHT BE FREE)
The sign at the entrance to Orofino, the last town we stayed in before heading to Seattle, our final destination, clearly shows the reality of small towns in America.
“Thank you for supporting small American towns.”
(Thank you for supporting small town America)
As I passed through 'Small Town America,' I could tell that Seattle, the final destination of my journey, was approaching as I saw electric cars appearing one by one on the road, something I hadn't seen before.
〈No Flight World Travel〉 is a record of geographical exploration and curiosity about humanity, with the desire to “see this planet I live on, Earth, at a different speed and in a different way.”
The motivation for the trip began with the author's experience of traveling overland for part of the journey (China-Pakistan) while studying abroad in Oxford, England in 2008.
The 'overland border crossing' that I tried without thinking left a deep impression on a Korean who has lived on the peninsula his entire life.
In 2022, I traveled by car across the United States (LA-Chicago).
It was a transatlantic cruise that led me to the challenge of a no-flight world tour, following two long-distance overland journeys.
In the fall of 2023, when I was feeling tired from work and my health was deteriorating, I revisited the idea of 'travel without taking a plane' and looked for a transatlantic cruise line.
What did the author see and what happened on the 'no-flight' trip he attempted at a turning point in his life?
We present seven scenes from the journey, seen through the passion of an adventurer and the insight of a journalist.
1.
Follow Marco Polo's journey and discover history and civilization.
In Hangzhou, China, we tour the West Lake while reading Marco Polo's Travels.
The scenery of West Lake recorded by Polo 800 years ago is not much different from today's West Lake.
The coincidence that Polo's journey and the author's journey overlap is also surprising.
In Italy and Greece, the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire is evoked, while the crossing of America follows the Lewis and Clark expedition's western expansion route.
At the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and the Jimmy Carter Center, we see "Black America" and "White America."
2.
Crossing Central Asian borders and the Russian currency exchange commotion
From Kazakhstan through Uzbekistan and Russia to Georgia.
Will he be able to safely cross all borders? The author, after much effort, finds train and bus routes that cross borders, and uses a car-sharing app to arrange private taxis for places without public transportation.
I also had an awkward situation where I was thrown between dozens of taxi drivers trying to pick up a single tourist.
In Russia, ATMs do not allow you to withdraw cash, and they do not exchange dollars for rubles.
As I faced the crisis of not being able to buy even a sip of water, I felt the aftereffects of war and economic sanctions with my whole body.
After experiencing the 'Tearful Currency Exchange' and meeting Central Asian people of mixed languages and ethnicities on the train, the author is forced to reconsider the meaning of borders.
I also think that Korea, where one nation, one language, and one set of interests are taken for granted, is quite exceptional.
3.
Testing Your Physical Limits: A 51-Hour Train Ride and Russian Antibiotics
The Chinese and Central Asian continents were mainly traveled by train.
I'm confident in my stamina, but there are always variables involved in long distance travel.
In China, I had to take a 33-hour train ride while infected with a coronavirus variant, and the 51-hour journey from Bukhara, Uzbekistan, to Volgograd, Russia, was on a freezing train with broken heating.
The symptoms of the coronavirus variant, which did not improve no matter how much medicine was taken, were cured immediately after an 'accidental' overdose of Russian antibiotics.
4.
Greece, a fun country, Italy, a country I want to live in
Greece, a hip country in disarray due to influx of refugees and gentrification.
So, a country that wants to be friends with, a country of true maritime people who consider not only the land but also the sea (Aegean Sea) as their territory.
Greece is one of the countries that left the author with the most vivid memories.
Boarding the cruise ship in Rhodes was the biggest challenge of “No Flight World Tour.”
The ship was almost missed between the maritime authorities who tried to prevent the refugees, who were apparently indistinguishable from tourists, from boarding the ship and the refugees who were desperately trying to get on board.
The author chose Italy as the country he would like to live in, aside from Korea.
“In Italy, even drinking a cup of coffee is an important and special thing.
The people are cute too.
“I like places like that.”
5.
Take a transatlantic cruise aboard the Nieuwsteidendamm
What would a mega cruise with 3,000 passengers and 1,000 crew look like?
The author is eagerly awaiting the cruise.
Because it is a rare opportunity to rest one's body and mind, tired from traveling by land.
A place where you can eat, sleep, and play while enjoying various cruise facilities and daily meals, so you can become a 'cruise baby'.
'Single Night' is a place where single grandmothers who have already seen off their grandfathers appear.
However, he suffers the humiliation of losing a basketball game with his grandmother.
In a lecture given by a proud shipping company that fed and housed thousands of soldiers three meals a day even under extreme conditions during World War II, we learn about the 'essence of business.'
6.
SpaceX rockets, the Grand Ole Missile Show, and the Delta Nuclear Missile Base
After seeing the Mycenaean civilization on the island of Crete via China and the Silk Road, we head to the Kennedy Space Center in the United States, which holds the key to future civilization.
To see the SpaceX rocket launch site in person.
After the launch was canceled once due to technical issues, there was no indication of when the launch would take place, but the author waited patiently while reading Elon Musk's biography and finally watched the Falcon 9 launch.
“It is said that when Genghis Khan led his cavalry and ruled the Eurasian continent, his army had 3 million horses.
In other words, the Yuan Dynasty was an empire that operated a force of 3 million horsepower.
The rocket the U.S. government used to launch the space shuttle Atlantis reportedly had 37 million horsepower.
Elon Musk's large spaceship Starship, which he is preparing, is said to have a power of over 40 million horsepower, which is equivalent to 70 percent of the power of all the horses on Earth.
If you measure power by energy consumption, Elon Musk alone has more than ten times the power of Genghis Khan.”
Traveling without taking a plane can also take us to unexpected places.
One of them is the Grand Ole Free Show, a country music venue in Nashville, Tennessee.
Listening to Don Schlitz, the creator of the hit song “The Gambler,” sing the song himself, the author says, “There is no need to live your life comparing yourself to others to see if your life is successful or not.
We learn the wisdom of life: “Life’s final accounting is done when you die.”
“If you’re going to play, you better learn it properly, kid.
Know when to hold your cards, know when to fold your cards,
You have to know when to get up and when to jump
Never count money while sitting at the table.
After all the deals are done, there is plenty of time to count the money.
While looking at the map, I stumbled upon a travel destination.
Delta Missile Site, a US nuclear missile launch site during the Cold War.
Surprisingly, it is also open to the public.
If you go down to the bunker 10 meters underground, there is a control room inside an iron door that looks like it is about 1 meter thick.
The iron gate, which cannot be opened by human power, has a picture of a Domino's pizza box with a missile inside, and the words "Delivery anywhere in the world within 30 minutes."
Otherwise, the next delivery is free.”
7 Traces of 'Small Town America' and Korea
In Atlanta, Georgia, the presence of our country's Kia Motors, which has deeply penetrated the local community, can be felt by opening an automobile factory in West Point, a poor town suffering from unemployment.
The villagers were happy to have jobs and said, “Thank you, God.
They say they put up a sign that said, “Thank you Jesus for bringing Kia to our town.”
As you pass through rural American towns, you will encounter many traces of the Korean War, also known as the "Forgotten War."
In the town square of Broken Bow, a small town in Nebraska, there is a monument honoring the young men who died in the Korean War, with this inscription:
“Go and tell him.
“You are free because we served and died.”
(GO AND TELL THE PEOPLE THAT WE SERVED AND DIED. SO YOU MIGHT BE FREE)
The sign at the entrance to Orofino, the last town we stayed in before heading to Seattle, our final destination, clearly shows the reality of small towns in America.
“Thank you for supporting small American towns.”
(Thank you for supporting small town America)
As I passed through 'Small Town America,' I could tell that Seattle, the final destination of my journey, was approaching as I saw electric cars appearing one by one on the road, something I hadn't seen before.
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: June 28, 2024
- Page count, weight, size: 400 pages | 536g | 150*210*18mm
- ISBN13: 9791198342126
- ISBN10: 1198342129
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