Business Travel

My father is in Asia this week. In a period of six days, he is visiting Korea, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong. An excerpt from his e-mail: “Lunchtime in Korea…went to a Chinese restaurant and ate things I didn’t recognize with chopsticks…then got a coffee frappacino from starbucks.” The idea of extensive overseas travel facinates me, because I think being sent all over the world in a private jet with good food and an expense account sounds very novel. However, I’m sure my father is absolutely exhausted and it’s not really all that fun after all, since all the cultural immersion he gets is eating food with chopsticks and the ‘historic sites’ will be the inside of hotels and office buildings, with some nice views out the airplane window. I hope sometime he gets to spend a few extra days over there, and is able to at least get the feel of country before he has to move onto another one.