Ancient Capital

Our sleepover

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All cozy on the floor

Me and a "guardian"

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Oh wait, I am an English teacher now...A "guardian" and I

Pagoda

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At the gate of Gulgulsa...the head center of Sunmudo, a Korean martial art

Buddha heads

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On the cliffside at golgulsa

Looking down

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On the cliffside at golgulsa

Wall carving

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ANother cliff hermitage spot

Nature

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View from the cliff

Inside the temple, at Ki Rim Sa

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A major faux pas, I know, but i forgot the rules...and then once the sin was done...well....

Almost alone

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This temple was virtually deserted, a stark difference from the chaos on Friday...it was magnificent

My solitary pagoda

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A monk came down the steps as I finished this picture..."nice water"...he really said nice pagoda...I wish I would have picked up on this earlier so I didn't have to give him a blank, awkward stare

View from the bus....and a bug

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Our driver was amazing...tok us on a scenic tour of the mountain roads...free of charge

"Central Park", Gyeongju

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Gorgeous

Korean picture heart

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They all do it...I had no "plus one" of my own, so this is my sad rendition of the Korean classic, solitary

James quading

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OK, in reality, this was a major highlight of the trip. We talked about it all weekend, but I lost faith that we would actually do it, amid the chaos of siteseeing. But we found some quads..and yes, you can just take them wherever you damn well feel like around the city. I had my first real surge of energy...my testosterone kicked in...and I became a quading menace. Poor James, trying to carefully cross the river without getting his feet wet. I came by moments later in the heat of the opportunity and sokaed the crap out of him. Later, big Koreans on little quads follwed Brianne and I around, squeeling tires...trying to scare the little white girls. I high tailed it toward a jump, hoping to loss him. It worked. He started yelling at me to slow down and I pinned it...caught some crazy air and landed on my two side tires. I pulled a donut out of it and stopped in a cloud of dust. They stood up and cheered, thumbs up and all. It was a good moment. Score one for the white girl.

Home

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I stopped to take a photo of the beautiful day and realized that the scenary was just like Okotoks. Home sick once again