October 10 – after a seemingly endless series of lucky breaks involving split second timing, cars, houses (except the one in Yachats, the buyer is having trouble with his mortgage company), and other things, we are finally off on the big trip!
Our itinerary:
The players:
Breakfast in Daejeun
Jang-Dong
Daegu
Gumi-si
Pohang
First KFC in Korea. The chickens had not arrived yet, so we had chicken parts. The chickens were delivered as the parts were cooking! Good, but not as good as Moodle Bowl
Last morning on Jeju-do
On to Busan, staying with Seong’s dad’s youngest sister first, then oldest sister.
Sashimi dinner in Busan, ten people, soup, fish, banchan, the works, about $240.
Sunday, so it’s breakfast, church, then lunch. During the service Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Michael Jackson and Sedona all came up, but came up short. Kudos to Rockefeller family, supported a lot of churches.
Changnyeoung
Seong doing a bit of trip planning:
Geode Island
Finally, decent KFC! Our hosts went out and bought two of these, *after* the dinner out. We almost finished them!
Our hosts!
At the market in Tongyoung
Before picture
Seong getting incredibly speedy work
After picture
I thought we were about to leave for the bullet train to Seoul but one more meal, based around sweet potatoes harvested this morning
Seong’s elementary school in Seoul (Cheonho Dong)
Suwon
Her father’s brother hosted us too. He can talk endlessly about the threat from North Korea until the family expressed outrage.
Hiking with Seong’s father’s oldest brother. We heard a lot about North Korea and his take on Christianity. It was quite dark when we finished!
