Buraksan Park
Johnnie is home!! He’s been TDY for the past almost 6 weeks and finally returned on Friday evening. If you’ve been following our blog, you can see that I’ve kept…
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Festival Eats and Treats
There were a lot of interesting things to see at the Hangang Yeouido Spring Flower Festival in Seoul! There were many food vendors set up selling unique foods that I’ve…
Convenience Stores
There seems to be a convenience store on almost every corner here and most of them have English names. These stores are packed full of sodas, juices, candy, cookies, chips,…
Gyeryongsan National Park – part 3 of 3
We had a choice after lunch to go back the way we came up or to continue along the mountain path, looping around to where we started from. We chose to…
Gyeryongsan National Park – part 2 of 3
After reaching the top of the mountain, we took a little side trek up to a scenic peak and back. This path went alongside a fence topped with barbed wire.…
Gyeryongsan National Park – part 1 of 3
This past Saturday, I traveling to Gyeryongsan National Park near the city of Daejeon to go hiking with some friends. It was the first time there for all of us…
Hyundai Tour
This week I went on a tour of the Hyundai car production plant in the city of Asan. This was an organized tour for a group of military wives and…
Pagodas and Tea – part 4 of 4
Finally, the tea part of Pagodas and Tea! After spending some quiet time visiting the pagodas and the graves, we spent some time talking to the monk that I’m pictured…
Pagodas and Tea – part 3 of 4
A while ago I did a post on Korean grave mounds. Bodies are buried under a circular mound of dirt. A single grave here, a group of graves there, but no…
Pagodas and Tea – part 2 of 4
After lunch at the rustic cabin restaurant, we continued on to the Korean Buddhist Temple. The temple is an area that consists of multiple pagodas, buildings, statues, and a cemetery.…