Mountain temple

To get here, I rode the subway around 1 hour, hiked up a mountain for around 3 hours, and eventually followed a trail to this temple. This day, we hiked more than 6 hours, and eventually returned home refreshed, but exhausted. Met many fellow hikers, enjoyed a free meal of bibimbap served by monks at a temple, and took in some amazing views of the city from an up high vantage point. All accessible by subway. I'm still in appreciation of that convenience.

Seoul Mates

December 1st 2011
We’ve now been together in Korea for more than 8 weeks. Still, it feels foreign and unsettled for me, while Matt daily plows into his job as if he’s thick in the trenches of war. Moving here without kids has meant there is more time but less sense of worthiness to my daily activities. Nevertheless, being an expat in a new city also means one can be busy from sun up til sun down simply by striv ... read more

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Korea was an independent kingdom under Chinese suzerainty for most of the past millennium. Following its victory in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, Japan occupied Korea; five years later it formally annexed the entire peninsula. After World War II, a... ... read more

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