Tag: korea
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bikes, brakes, bruises, and a beautiful evening
I’m glad to be alive at the end of today. I may be fearless about flying a single-seat jet across the largest ocean on the planet, but I’m terrified to ride my bike around the neighborhood. It started with a short bike ride on a Korean evening lit by another amazing sunset painted in the […]
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Rummicube at Dak-bucks
Four hours after leaving Kunsan, after driving over several dividers to correct wrong turns and countless stops for OSI (milk) coffee, we arrived at a parking lot we could call home for the night. Rick pitched his tent on a grass median. I pitched mine on the mattress in the back of Slicks truck. Now […]
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eating spaghetti with chopsticks
The sun has drifted below the horizon but that angle allows it to glint pink off jagged cloud bottoms high above me. Harmonies of Korean music accompany the ever-changing sunset as I wolf down my spaghetti with the only utensils the pension has provided chopsticks and a spoon. My friends are out hiking and […]
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Ironman Korea
The roped-off area between the cones was filling with lean bodies wedged into wetsuits. Predominantly black Asian heads where increasingly covered with white bathing caps. I searched the spectators for my friends, suspecting Id hear Carries shouts as soon as she arrived. Finally I saw them walking stiffly down a grass-lined trail to the beach […]