268-miles Hanover to JFK Airport
24-buffalo wings and
2-beers waiting to board the
14- hour flight to Korea
10-hours of sweet straight sleep to Seoul
1111- number of Korean Won per US dollar
14-hours to spend in and around the Incheon airport
5-dollars for a breakfast of coffee, water, seaweed and alfalfa sprout broth soup, with oysters, tofu, kimchi, eggs over easy, rice, all while seated on pillows on a heated wooden floor
1- things that tasted like a tobacco leaf that were served with said breakfast
100%- ratio of tobacco-flavored things that went from my mouth to my napkin to be discretely thrown away outside the restaurant…
1- hour that Eddie and I spent riding a bus into the nowhere suburbs of Incheon trying to find the coast, unsuccessfully
20- $’s it cost for unlimited food, drink, air conditioning, internet, cappuccinos and showers in the VIP lounge for the
5-hours before boarding my flight to Hanoi

oh, and this isn’t numeric, but there is a brand of sports drink or “ion supply drink” here from Japan called “Pocari Sweat!” that tastes like warm powdered gatorade and is the color of, well, sweat…