I’m not sure what I “expected” Don told us he’d arranged for us to attend the wedding of one of his Korean teacher colleagues at the International School, but whatever I thought it would be like was wrong! First off, it wasn’t held in a temple, shrine, church or other...
I am not making this up! (I took a photo of the sign and you can enlarge it by clicking on it and read if for yourself). “There are about a thousand tombs of aristocrats, eunuchs, and commoners from the Joseon period in Choansan (Mt.). Particularly noteworthy is the...
Although I was starting to get the hang of the subway system in Seoul, third largest in the world (after Tokyo and Moscow), I was grateful for the efforts of Don and Chris to meticulously plot our course whenever Miriam and I went “out and about” without them. Knowing...
Back from Japan, Miriam and I emptied the majority of our suitcases into the laundry room. Then I sorted through all the paper stuff, making three piles: Mine to keep, things Don and Chris might like to peruse in preparation of their own trip to Japan next year, and...
A day of hurry up and wait to travel from Kyoto, Japan back to Seoul, Korea, as our plane did not leave Osaka Airport until 5 pm. After breakfast we went back to the room and I went back through hundreds of photos, deleting the blurry and redundant, and freeing up...
