American 98: Chicago O’Hare to London Heathrow

Main reason to stop at Chicago was actually to get into London to Paris…and round trip ticket was only available to me from British Airways ๐Ÿ™‚

So 8 hours of flight mainly crossing over Canada threw me to London. Hello UK and London – has been a while indeed:)

Chicago์—์„œ 8์‹œ๊ฐ„ ํ‘น์ž๋ฉด์„œ ๊ฐ”๋”๋‹ˆ ์–ด๋А์ƒˆ London์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๋ฌผ๋ก  Marvel์˜ next ๋จน๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์ฐฝ์ถœ์„ ์œ„ํ•ด ์• ์“ฐ๋Š”๊ฑธ ์ง€์ผœ๋ณด๋ ค๊ณ  Thunderbolt๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ ค๊ณ  ์• ๋ฅผ ์ผ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋‹ค ๋ชป๋ณด๊ณ  ์“ฐ๋Ÿฌ์ ธ ์žค๋‹ค…

์‚ฌ์‹ค Transit time์ด 2์‹œ๊ฐ„๋„ ์ฑ„ ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•„์„œ ๊ฑฑ์ •์ด ๋งŽ์•˜๋Š”๋ฐ London๋„์ฐฉ์ด ์˜ˆ์ •๋ณด๋‹ค ๋นจ๋ผ์ ธ์„œ ๋‚˜๋ฆ„ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„์˜ ์—ฌ์œ ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ๋นก์Žˆ๊ฑธ๋กœ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ Heathrow tranfer๋ฅผ ์ฒดํ—˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค… (์ •๋ง์ด์ง€ worldclass ๊ทœ๋ชจ๋กœ ์˜จ๊ฐ– ์„ธ์ƒ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค ๋‹ค ๋ชจ์•„๋†“์€๋“ฏํ•œ ํฐ ๊ณตํ•ญ์ด๋‹ค…)

2025.9

Nuts on Clark at O’Hare Terminal 5

๋‚˜์˜ ์ตœ์•  Chicago thing์ธ Nuts on Clark…๋ฐค๋Šฆ์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ์˜ค๋‹ˆ ์žํŒ๊ธฐ๋ฐ–์— ์—†์—ˆ๊ณ  ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ์ œ์ผ ์ข‹์•„ํ–ˆ๊ฑด ์„คํƒ•๋ฐœ๋ฆฐ ๋„›์€ ํŒ”์ง€๋„ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค….์•„์‰ฝ…

One of my favorite Chicagoland thing was only available via vending machine when arrived at night and didn’t even have my favorites of sugar coated nuts…:(

2025.9

American 2398: Seattle to Chicago O’Hare

์–ด์ฉŒ๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ๋˜ ๊ธธ๋กœ ๋‚˜์„ฐ๊ณ  Alaska๋งˆ์ผ๋ฆฌ์ง€๋กœ ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๋ ค๋‹ค๋ณด๋‹ˆ ๋˜ AA๋ฅผ ํƒ€๊ฒŒ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค..

์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์— ๊ฐ€๋Š” Chicagoํ–‰….์˜›๋‚ ์— O’Hare๋ฅผ ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ์Œํ•ด์•ผ๋ ์ง€ ๋ชจ๋ฅผ ๋•Œ (์˜คํ•˜๋ฆฌ? ์˜คํ•ด๋ฆฌ? ์˜คํ•˜๋ž˜? ์˜คํ•ด๋ž˜?) ์–ด๋А ์นœ๊ตฌ์ธ๊ฐ€๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์นด๋ฝ์„ ๊ผฌ๋ฉฐ “์˜คํ—ค์–ด”๋ฅผ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๋ฉด ๋œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ–ˆ๋˜๋ง์ด ๋ช‡์‹ญ๋…„์ด ์ง€๋‚˜๋„ ๊ธฐ์–ต์— ๋‚จ๋Š”๋‹ค…

์–ด์ฐŒ๋˜์—ˆ๊ฑด Chicagoํ–‰์€ ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ฐฝ๊ฐ€์— ์•‰์•„์•ผํ•œ๋‹ค…ใ…Žใ…Ž ์ผ๋ฆฌ๋…ธ์ด ์‹œ์นด๊ณ ….๋…๋„๋Š” ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋•……

Conversation I had like in old days

“How do you pronounce the big airport’s name at Chicago? Is it Oh-Ha-Rae or Oh-Hae-Ri or Oh-Ha-Ri or Oh-Hae-Rae?”

“Oh that is easy just curl or scratch your hair and call it Oh-Hair :)”

Anyhow it is always better to sit on windows side when arriving at Chicago

2025.9

United 2242: Seattle to Chicago O’Hare

์ง€๋‚œ ์ฃผ๋ง์„ ์•ž๋‘” ๋ชฉ์š”์ผ ๋ฐค – ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ ํœด๊ฐ€๋ฅผ ๋‚ด๊ณ  ๋ˆˆ์•Œ์„ ๋น ์•Œ๊ฐ›๊ฒŒ ๋ฌผ๋“ค์ด๋Š” ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ ํƒ€๊ณ  Chicago๋กœ ํ–ฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค…

๋ญ ์—ฌํ–‰์ด๋ผ๊ธด ๊ฑฐ์ฐฝํ•˜๊ณ ..์‚ฌ์‹ค ๊ผฌ๋งน์ด๊ตฐ์ด ๋™๋„ค ์นœ๊ตฌ์™€ ์ค‘๋ถ€ ์‹œ๊ณจ๋กœ 3์ฃผ ์งœ๋ฆฌ camp๋ฅผ ๊ฐ”๋Š”๋ฐ ๋‘ ์ง‘์—์„œ “๋ฐฐ์†ก”๊ณผ “์ˆ˜๊ฑฐ”๋ฅผ ๋‚˜๋ˆ ์„œ ํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‚œ “์ˆ˜๊ฑฐ”๋ฅผ ๋งก์•„ ํ”ฝ์—…ํ•˜๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ„์…ˆ ๐Ÿ™‚

๊ณ ๋กœ ๋‚˜๋ฆ„ ํ”ฝ์—… ํ•˜๋Ÿฌ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋น„์šฉ์˜ ์ตœ์†Œํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์–ด๋Ÿฐ์ €๋Ÿฐ ์˜ต์…˜์„ ๋ณด๋˜ ์™€์ค‘ United์˜ Economy Basic Red Eye oneway๊ฐ€ 92+Tax์—ฌ์„œ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋ˆˆ ์งˆ๋ˆ๊ฐ๊ณ  ๋‘๋‹ฌ์ „๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์˜ˆ์•ฝํ•ด๋†จ์—ˆ๋‹ค…ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž ์˜ฌ๋•Œ๋Š” ์•„์ด๋“ค 2๋ช…์„ ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์™€์•ผํ•ด์„œ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ํŽธ๋„ ๋‘ ํŽธ ๋Š์–ด์„œ ๊ฐ”๋‹ค์™”์–ด์•ผ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค..

ํ—ˆ๋‚˜ ์ œ์ผ ์‹ผ ํ‘œ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์„œ ์ด๋Ÿฐ์ €๋Ÿฐ ์„ค์›€์€ ๋‹ค ๋‹นํ–ˆ๊ณ  ๋ช‡๋ฒˆ์˜ ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ๋์— ๊ฐ•ํ–‰ํ•œ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ๋ฌด์‚ฌํžˆ ๋น„ํ–‰ ์™„๋ฃŒ…๊ทธ ๋™์•ˆ ์ˆ˜์—†์ด ๋งŽ์€ ์„ค์›€๋“ค์„ listingํ•ด๋ณด์ž๋ฉด…ใ…Žใ…Ž

์ดํ‘œ๋Š” personal item๊ฐ€๋ฐฉ ์ด์™ธ์˜ carryon์ด ์ ˆ๋Œ€ ์—†๋‹ค.. ์บ๋ฆฌ์˜จํ•˜๋ ค๋ฉด ๋ˆ ๋”๋‚ด๋ผ..(==>์ด๋ฏธ ๋ฒ„๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜ฌ ์˜ท ์ž…๊ณ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฑธ๋กœ ์—ฌํ–‰ ์„ธ์›€)

์ดํ‘œ๋Š” ์ขŒ์„๋„ ๋‹น์ผ์— ์•Œ์•„์„œ ์ฃผ๊ณ  ์ผํ–‰๊ณผ ๋ถ™์—ฌ๊ฐˆ์ˆ˜ ์—†์Œ…์ขŒ์„ํ™•์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์œผ๋ฉด ๋ˆ ๋”๋‚ด๋ผ (==> ์ผํ–‰ ์—†์ด ๊ฐ€๋Š”๊ฑฐ๊ณ  ์‹ธ๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€๋Š”๊ฑฐ๋‹ˆ ์ž๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์–ด๋””๋“  ์ƒ๊ด€์—†๋‹ค..)

ํƒ‘์Šน๋„ ์ œ์ผ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์— ํ•œ๋‹ค.. (==> ์ ˆ๋Œ€ ์ดํ•ด๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ๊ฐ€๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์™œ ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋นจ๋ฆฌํƒ€๋Š”๊ฑธ ํ˜œํƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ณด๋Š”์ง€…๋‚œ gate์•ž์—์„œ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์‹ซ์–ด์„œ Priority Pass๋กœ Club ๋ฌธ๋‹ซ์„๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ €๊ฒƒ ์ฃผ์„œ๋จน๊ณ  ๋ฏธ๋ฏธ์ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋’ค์—์„œ ๋‘๋ฒˆ์งธ๋กœ ํƒ”๋‹ค..)

๊ธ‰๊ธฐ์•ผ ์ถœ๋ฐœ ์ „์— checkinํ•˜๋ คํ–ˆ๋”๋‹ˆ ์ด ํ‘œ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋ฐฉ ๊ฒ€์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๊ณตํ•ญ์—์„œ ์ง์›๋ณด๋Š” ์•ž์—์„œ checkinํ•ด์•ผํ•œ๋‹ค ๊ทผ๋ฐ ์‹œ์นด๊ณ  ๋‚ ์”จ๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ์ข‹์„์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ (๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์˜ค๋ฒ„๋ถ€ํ‚น์ด๋œ๋“ฏํ•˜๋‹ˆ) ์›ํ•˜๋ฉด ์•„์ฃผ ๊ด€๋Œ€ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ‘œ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ์‹œ๊ฐ„์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๊ฟ”์ฃผ๋งˆ..(==> ์ด๊ฑด ์ •๋ง ์›€์ฐ”ํ–ˆ๋‹ค…๋ฌด์กฐ๊ฑด ๊ผญ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ๋งž์ถฐ๊ฐ€์„œ ์• ๋“ค์„ pickupํ•ด์•ผํ•˜๋‹ˆ risk๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฑด๋ฐ…๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๊ณตํ•ญ์— 2์‹œ๊ฐ„์ „์— ์žฝ์‚ฌ๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€์„œ ์ œ์ผ๋จผ์ € checkinํ•˜๋Š”๊ฑธ๋กœ…) ๊ฒŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๊ณตํ•ญ ๊ฐˆ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ SMS๋กœ ์ฒดํฌ์ธํ•˜๋ผ๊ณ  ๊ฒฝ๊ณ ๋ฉ”์„ธ์ง€๋„ ๊ณ„์†…ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž

ํ•œํŽธ ์งœ์ฆ๋‚˜์ง€๋งŒ ์ดํ•ด๊ฐ€ ๋˜๋Š”๊ฑด ์†”๋กœ ์—ฌํ–‰๊ฐ์ด ํŽธ๋„ ๋Š๊ณ  ์—ฌํ–‰ํ•˜๋‹ˆ ๋ณด์•ˆ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰๋Œ€์—์„œ ์ƒ…์ƒ…ํžˆ ๋’ค์ ธ์„œ ์ข€ ๊ฑฐ์‹œ๊ธฐ….(๋‹ค ์•ˆ๋‹ค ์ด๊ฒŒ random์•„๋‹Œ๊ฑฐ…)

์•”ํŠผ ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ์—์„œ๋Š” ์ž ์ด ์ž˜์˜ค์งˆ ์•Š์•„ ๊ณ ์ƒ์€ ์ข€ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ์ข€ ๋ฒ„ํ‹ฐ๋‹ค ๋ˆˆ์ข€ ๋ถ™์ด๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋‹ˆ Chicago์— ๋ฌด์‚ฌํžˆ ๋„์ฐฉ..

Chicago O’Hare๊ณตํ•ญ์€ ๋‚ด ์ƒ์• ์˜ ๊ธฐ์–ต ์†์˜ ์ฒซ ๊ณตํ•ญ์ด๊ณ , MBA๊ธฐ๊ฐ„๋™์•ˆ ๋ป”์งˆ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ์•„๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๊ณ  ํšŒ์‚ฌ ์ถœ์žฅ๋„ 2๋ฒˆ์ธ๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ„ ๊ธฐ์–ต์ด ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๋‚ด๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ˆœ๊ฐ„ ์ธ์ƒ์˜ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฟ ์˜› ์ถ”์–ต๋“ค์ด ๋จธ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์‹ธ์•… ์Šค์น˜๊ณ  ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ”๋‹ค.

Endeavored a Red eye Economy Basic fare trip from United to Chicago on last Thursday night to deliver the family duties. Had to go multiple rounds of “hesitations of paying more” for luggage carry-on, seat assignment, etc but finally reached Chicago – Almost the first time in a decade…

Hello Chicago, Chicagoland, Great Lakes or Midwest whatever you are called you are where part of my heart belongs..

2023.7

Chicago ์ถœ์žฅ

ํ–… ์—์Šคํ‚ค๋ชจ ์•„์ €์”จ๊ฐ€ ๋ชจ๋Š” ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐํƒ€๊ณ  Chicago๋ฅผ ์ถœ์žฅ ์™”๋‹ค..

์ด๊ฒŒ ์–ผ๋งˆ๋งŒ์˜ Midwest์ธ๊ฐ€? ๊ฑฐ์˜ 2๋…„๋งŒ์— ์™”๋Š”๋ฐ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์€ ์Šต์Šตํ•˜๊ตฌ๋‚˜… ๐Ÿ™‚

์™ ์ง€ ๊ณ ํ–ฅ์— ์˜จ๊ฒƒ ๊ฐ™์€ ์ด ๊ธฐ๋ถ„์€ ๋ญ์ง€? ๐Ÿ™‚

Going to Boston

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ํ„ธ์„…ํ—˜๋‚œํ•œ ์ผ์ •………. ์‹œ์ž‘๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์ฃฝ์—ฌ์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค…

 

* ์ง‘์ค‘ ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰: ๊ณตํฌ์˜ ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐํ‘œ XXX ์˜จ์†Œ์ง€ํ’ˆ ์˜จ๊ฐ™๊ฒƒ ์—„์ฒญ ๋’ค์ง ๋‹นํ–ˆ๋‹ค…ํœด…-.-;

* ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ ์—ฐ์ฐฉ: ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ๊ฒจ์šฐํƒ„ ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ๋Š” Detroitํ™œ์ฃผ๋กœ์—์„œ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ํ•œ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์„œ์žˆ๋‹ค ๊ฐ€์ฃผ์‹ฌ..

* Chicago ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํŽธ ๋†“์นจ: ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์‹œ์นด๊ณ ์— ๊ฐ€์„œ๋„ ๋‹น์—ฐํžˆ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํŽธ์ด ์—†๋‹ค..-.-; ๊ฐ•์ œ๋กœ ๋‹ค์Œ ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ ํƒ‘์Šน…ํ‘…์ž”ํ˜น

* Boston์—์„œ ์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋ฌผ ์•ˆ์˜ด: ..๊ฒŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ง๊นŒ์ง€ ์•ˆ์™€์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๋ฆฌ์ฟ ๋ฅดํŒ… ํŠธ๋ฆฝ์— ์ฒญ๋ฐ”์ง€ ์ž…๊ณ  ๊ฐ”๋‹ค… ์•„ ๋†”..T_T

* Boston ๊ณตํ•ญ์— ์–ต๋ฅ˜๋‹นํ• ๋ป”ํ•จ: ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ์—๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ง ์•ˆ๋‚˜์˜จ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ๊ณตํ•ญ์— ์‚ฌ.๋žŒ.์ด. ์—†.๋‹ค. ํ—‰… ํƒ์‹œ๋„ ์—†์„ ๋ป”ํ–ˆ์Œ…T_T

 

์ •๋ง ๊ตฌ์งํ™œ๋™ ํž˜๋“ค๋‹ค…T_T

์‚ฌ์ง„์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์‹œ์นด๊ณ ๊นŒ์ง€ ํƒœ์›Œ์ค€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๋…์ˆ˜๋ฆฌ ๐Ÿ™‚

 

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