Incheon (Inchon) Airport

After a 14+ hour flight, we landed at Incheon Airport, near Seoul, South Korea. This is where we tranfered to our last couple of hours of flight, into Hanoi, Vietnam.

Incheon is famous from the Korean Conflict for the September 15, 1950 landing by the 1st Marine Division. If you are in my History classes, we talked about this a week or so ago, as Stage III of the Korean Conflict. MacArthur landed the Marines here, in a surprise move against the Communist, North Korean forces. This was the "D Day" of the Forgotten War, and a wildly successful landing, to boot!

On a cultural note....the Incheon Airport is BEAUTIFUL. Shopping, eating establishments, very high end!
Also ~ Korean Air, whom we had never heard of before took us from Dulles to Incheon. We flew on a LARGE 777. They took GREAT care of us! 2 full meals, LOTS of citrus juice, water, wine (which as you know Mr Mellott didn't have!), peanuts, fruit, etc. Good leg room and in-flight movies....he watched 4, including Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino. He hopes to see Valkyrie on the way home.

This was Mrs. Mellott's lunch
...not enough meat for Mr. Mellott!!