As all of you might know I came to South Korea over four-and-a-half years ago, January will be Five years. Anyway, my main reason for coming here was to get debt free and save money, well two-and-a-half years ago I met a very special person whom I've spent a great deal of time with and have gone on some great travel adventures with, well this past September we got married, so this blog is really more about my experience with getting married here in South Korea. Let me start off by saying that getting married here is very, very expensive, it [View Full Entry]

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Hello all, this is not a travel blog, but an opportunity for me to relay some info to y'all. Yesterday I read an article in "The Seoul Times" about dogs I'm sure many of you know how much I love dogs and miss my companion Possum, anyway this article is about how dogs are used for meat here in South Korea and the way they are "put down" that is about as nice a way I can put it. I encourage all my dog loving friends/family, Mom & Dad, Lori, Casey, Judy, Ross, Ignacio & Dinah, Leighanna, and Chris whom Possum [View Full Entry]

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Well, as I mentioned in an earlier blog I was thinking of going to China to see the total eclipse, I did not make it, couple of reasons 1) It is still monsoon season and I did not want to buy a ticket to Singapore and it ends up being a cloudy day, 2) Which is the main reason, I procrastinated and forgot I needed a China visa. So I stayed in Korea and saw an almost 90% eclipse on what turned out to be a very clear day. One of my co-workers (Korean) had never seen an eclipse, so we [View Full Entry]

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Well this is the third year that we have gone to the "Boryeong - Mud Festival", last year I did not take any pictures because when we went a Typhoon hit the cost. This year it rained so hard the first weekend, it is monsoon season now, so we went on the last weekend, although it did not rain the entire day, it was very very windy. But it was still very fun seeing everybody covered in mud we also ate lunch at our favorite restaurant, it is a shell fish joint with a hole in the middle of your table [View Full Entry]

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Well after a long hiatus, I'm finally back to writing my blogs, and I must say I have missed it. Let me apologize for not keeping you all posted on my travels, but I have been so busy here at work, with a new contract being awarded here at Kunsan last May (possibly 5 years), I'm still very busy until the end of August, but I now have some free time. To get you caught up, there will be short blogs on some of our trips, home over Thanksgiving for two weeks, went to Thailand for a long Christmas weekend, four [View Full Entry]

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This was the first time Pearl and I traveled on separate flights to the same place; her flight was a few hours before my flight. When it was time for her to leave I walk her to her gate which was in a different terminal than my flight, after she left I stayed in the area and did some work, about an hour before my flight I started to head back to my terminal, only to find out that there was no way back, I had to go to security and explain to them what happened, and suggested to them that [View Full Entry]

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Winter here was kind of dry until one weekend we got hit with a nice snow storm, reminded me of Colorado when I lived there, it started snowing Friday night and did not stop until Sunday evening, when it was all done we received about 18-20”. On Saturday night I walked around my apartment for the enjoyment of walking in the snow, helped a couple of drivers who got stuck in the snow. [View Full Entry]

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We decided to go to a nice warm tropical place for Christmas, so Thailand was our choice. Our hotel was walking distance to a nice beach, one day we to a boat ride an island that had a huge cave in it, after that we went to “James Bond Island” in which parts of the James Bond movie “Man with the Golden Gun” was filmed, I think that was the movie. Along the way it started to rain, and it rained, and rained, and did I mention it rained. We visited a temple, saw the largest Buddha in Thailand, went to [View Full Entry]

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Went home for Thanksgiving, which was very nice, got to see my house for the first time and it look so much different. Visited my Grandmother for her 100th birthday in North Carolina along the way we stopped off at some flea markets. While in Chattanooga went to Ruby Falls and later drove to Helen Georgia. [View Full Entry]

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When I drove down to Deagu in August for an inspection I noticed some banners up along the highway advertising "2008 World Body Painting Festival - Asia" and immediately told myself, "We are going to this." So the last weekend in August Pearl and I drove down to Deagu to see what this festival was all about. It was quite the day, the weather was clear and mild, they had food vendors and merchants all set up outside the stadium, where the actual body painting was going on. Once inside the stadium each artist had their own booths so you can [View Full Entry]

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