Hitching a ride to South Korea: what it's like being the only female passenger on board a cargo ship heading to Asia

Nearly a decade ago, I Googled something along the lines of “people used to travel by ships that weren’t obnoxious cruise ships so do they still do that now?” and discovered that purchased passages were available on container ships all over the world. I swore I would do it some day and – when I was planning a trip around the world after leaving Portland, Oregon, my home of seven years, to move back to New York City – it seemed only appropriate to kick off on a 278-metre megaship, floating away from everything in the middle of the Pacific for two whole weeks.

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