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Do you recommend a trip to Korea? We've thought about it quite a bit.

What cites in Japan stood out?

Ive watched video on utube about the bullet trains in Japan and looks like it would be a lot of fun to ride

As we were flying on American, I checked out their credit card, and obtained one.  The first year is free, and I got 50,000 miles for spending some money on it, so cool, but that much FF isn't good for much.

BUT, for 7900 miles, you can get into their lounge, which I did (2x).  The second year costs $99 so I'll cancel, but can use the miles for the lounge if we're on AA in the future.  I did the same with United but their card gives you two lounge visits a year.

I have a Delta AMEX I use for most things.  It comes with lounge admission, but is starting to cost too much.

They also carry up to 5,000 people, who really are not there to be transported in any normal sense.  I asked the chief engineer on our last cruise how much lube oil his engines had, I forget the answer, it was like 30 metric somethings, a lot, was it 30 metric meters?  He said they don't ever change the oil except during a full overhaul.

I wondered how long the engines last between majors.

I've heard 20 years or so.

That sounds reasonable to me for a huge Diesel.  I imagine they usually run at constant RPM and get excellent maintenance (one hopes).  I know Diesels on ~35 footers go for a premium over gas.  My friend in Wisconsin had one of those but with 454 gasoline engines (2), as I recall.  He sold it finally.

Sounds like you're talking about me...

Yup.  My buddy lived in Racine. WI while he was working, and then retired in Sturgeon Bay.  He had a boat the whole time, we visited them 5-6 years back and had the last ride on his boat before he sold it.  He also was the Chief Poohbah of the local boating group, whatever they called them.  He talked some about gas vs Diesel.

Reminds me of the old $50 hamburger stories pilots would tell,  which now would be $200.

Commodore.

Sturgeon Bay has some really nice marinas.

I found that belonging to a yacht club really wasn't worth it, for our uses.

The KYC (Kenosha) is mostly geared toward sailboats and racing.

Those people don't like my people much.

I've flown through DFW about a gazillion times,  but never internationally. I kinda like walking between the terminals when I have enough time. There are trains that go both ways and "they say" the max time from one end to the other is 9 minutes, but I don't know about that.