-Eat Japanese style breakfast
-Go to beach
-Play frisbee
-Lounge
-Ferry back to Korea
-Standby on rapid train to Seoul, standing for 3 hours with 10 new friends in cramped quarters annoying all other passengers.
Japan
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7 October 2009
Everywhere. EVERYWHERE. Anytime I stopped for a breather I would look at the beautiful green trees and see giant webs reaching between them and an array of spiders catching their meals. Giant, ugly, creepy, crawly spiders.
Flying down the hills on my bike, I quickly learned to keep my mouth closed as once or twice I busted through said spider webs and followed the collision with short and feverish freak out sessions in which I was certain I had just inhaled a spider.
7 October 2009
-Wake to beautiful sky
-Hop on bike
-Pass through various coastal towns
-Get flat tire. Walk a few kilometers stopping to have tire filled with air from various Japanese work sites. Have tire go flat again and again and again.
-Get picked up by truck and driven to hotel with a view
-Put on kimono and rest weary muscles
7 October 2009
-Bike on ferry
-Bike through immigration
-Bike to our campsite (easier said than done)
-Take freezing cold shower, eat food, drink beer, barely sleep on hard floor in freezing coldish temps.
7 October 2009
When The Race told me she was going to Japan for Cheusok weekend I jumped at the chance to invite myself to go with her and her closest friends and the 30 or so other people signed up for this mini tour.
With the help of our tour guide, William, we found way to our bus and overnighted to Busan, hopped on a ferry, and biked our way through immigration to find ourselves on the lovely island of Tsushima. Closer to Korean than Japan, this little fishing island is a perfect place to go if you want a weekend of tourterous biking and absolutely amazing scenery.
5 October 2009
My ass hurts.
Not biking in years and then deciding to bike about 80kms in one weekend is a shock to the quads, the back, and the ass that has to sit on the seat of the bike. All that is worth it though as it was an incredibly beautiful and fun trip. I spent my birthday weekend in Japan, met some cool people, and rocked the hills that tried to impede our trip across Tsushima. The hills lost. We won.
Haven’t uploaded all my pics yet, but here are a few until I do:
30 September 2009
Korean Thanksgiving is upon us here in Korealand. Chuseok is a holiday much like ours back home were families get together and over eat.
In my lessons this week I incorporated some of our Thanksgivingness to my kids here. Like drawing a turkey from the outline of your hand. (Unfortunately, they all thought it was a chicken on fire.)
Around Korea stores are packed with people, prices have been hiked, gift sets have been pulled to the front, and Korean women have started to dread the long weekend that must be spent with their in-laws.
I have three days free from work and the monkeys and do not have any elaborate Chuseok plans. Instead, I intend to bike across a small Japanese island called Tsushima. Nothing major.
Until then…
6 August 2009
I am not keen on the idea (ie: I am being lazy) of recapping the whole Chris/Kris experience in Korea (awesome) or the roaming around Tokyo (awesomer) or my visit home to see all my lovelies (awesomest), so I’m just going to post some of the highlights. (Most of you who really care to know, already do know, and the rest, well, you won’t have to sit through someone else’s vacation photos= win, win!)
Showing off Korea
Monsoon season, Korean food, and climbing up a gazillion stairs to see a pig head on an altar. Korean Style.
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TOKYO
In front of a palace
In front of Mt. Fuji, or lack thereof since it was MIA this day.
In front of, and making fun of, fat Asian baby.
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Home Sweet Colorado
Jumping with my girls
Happy to see favorite uncles and aunts!
And, doing it up Browning style!
18 July 2009
A week flew by in Seoul and now Kiki is taking me to Tokyo.
Be home in FOUR DAYS!!
