The trail began easily enough. We saw people walking by in jeans and ballet flats (also notable: the girl wearing a peasant skirt and rope sandals) and figured this would be…
KOREA
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HIKING JEJU ISLAND Korean National Parks
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After a full day of last-minute travel frazzling, I stayed up late (as usual) packing, fell asleep on the couch with Max, woke up about four hours later, got ready, finished…
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For weeks we mulled over ideas of what to do over Memorial Day weekend. Time passed and we were uncharacteristically nonchalant about the whole thing, as if it would somehow magically…
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We took a day trip to meet up with one of Sly's buddies from their Academy days. Our train left at 11:06 am. We left the house just before 10am, walked…
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This was the inaugural year of the Dalseong Tomato Festival and as usual, we had no idea what to expect. The website spoke of tomato water fueled water gun fights, finding…
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Biseulsan or Biseul Mountain is part of the same mountain range as Apsan -- the mountain park right by our house. Known for its beautiful field of wild azaleas set against…
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A week long lantern festival came to an end last Saturday, but not before one last brilliant moment of glory: hundreds of colored lanterns fueled by candlelight drifted up into the…
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I'm going to have to start coming up with better names for my hikes, but I'm not quite sure how to name them. As far as I know, trails aren't given…
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I have been excited about this festival ever since hearing about it. Who doesn't love tiny dots of light strung across the night's sky? Not me. The lotus lantern festival kicks…