Seogwipo Resort Hotel

... d been in a cold stretch until a few days before, so the sun felt amazing. We stayed at the top for about 5 minutes taking pictures and then climbed back down.
After we saw everything we wanted we caught the same bus we had come on and continued on the road that basically goes around the outside of the island. It took about 25 minutes for the bus to come, but it was worth it because the fare was only about 2,000won/person ($1.75) for another 30 ...

... in the rooms, so I slept great!! In the morning we went for a run and got some cereal from the convenience store for breakfast. We took a bus to the far east side of the mountain and hiked Sunrise Peak. It was a short, about 30 minute, hike but the view was beautiful from the top. After we finished, we walked down the black sand beach and layed out for a while, insistant that we were going to get our chance at tanning. We had a galbi dinner (barbque) and went ...

... the road warrior who patiently waits to lick the scraps from a can of dog food once Max is done with it; this dog is the ultimate loyal tough dog. This memory of my favorite dog came to me on Friday night as I had one of the most culturally intense experiences of my time away from home. Sally invited me to a bbq with her family earlier in the month and to my disappointment it was moved to Saturday, the day that I and 9 fellow teachers would be traveling to Jeju Island for summer ...

... we were in the air. The flight time was less than one hour, so before we knew it, we were there! I felt well-informed about our destination since one of my students, Hye sun, had given me the lowdown earlier on in the week. I promised to buy her some Jeju chocolates as a thankyou, and I naturally obliged...

We based ourselves in Seogwipo on the south coast for our 3 night trip as it supposedly had a more relaxed feel than Jeju City, and it was a very good choice looking back ...

... as a pillow. In the middle of the night something scared the **** out of me. There was a blood curling wail that came form the forest very close to where I was sleeping. Before I opened my eyes from the deepo slumber I was in, I was on my feet prepared for the worst. I wished that I had a baseball bat, golf club, sword, or AK-47 in my hand. The wailing continued and I had an internal giggle that a feral cat had forced fear into my mind, if only for a short bit. The creature ...

... wasn't so bad but going down was harder because we had to use our stabilzer muscles to stop from falling. My legs were shaking if I stopped for too long and so we decided to run down to warm are legs up. We felt like billy goat jumping down the mountain and an alarming rate. I felt like I was flying. It was a lot of fun but today my shoulders hurt because of the backpack. After that we got on the bus and took a nap at the hotel ...

... on stopped running either due to the rain or normal operations. Fortunately the kindly ajeoshis and ajummas that I rented the scooter from helped me get on a bus to the other ferry, but not before pulling me up a seat to thier table and shoving succulant watermelon in my face. I ran into a Korean American from LA and her Korean husband or boyfriend. I had seen them a couple of times on the small island and was ...

... got hold of one of the boxes of powder she was selling, assuming it was something like ginseng. The only two words on the box that were not Korean said,"PONY BONE". It still tasted good!! Koreans love their food, especially kimchi which is ...

... white sands. Jeju is popular with Koreans who have difficulties obtaining travel visas, or for honeymooners who wish to travel without language barriers. For our first couple of days on the island we stayed in a secluded but popular part of the island. a village called Hallim. The big attraction there is Hallim Park, a manicured park jam packed with palm trees, rocks, gardens and those picture perfect opportunities. So many in fact, that we often saw line-ups of Korean waiting in ...

... to have a plan and soon we were in a little town called Hallim where we found a fresh sea-food restaurant, chose all things swimming and soon they were on plates or in bowls before us, cooked and no longer swimming. Heaven! We then drove for a short time and they checked out several Yogwans right on the beach front before they chose one that they were happy with that would offer a beautiful morning view of the ...