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I'm sure the area looked a lot more beautiful before the ugly concrete bridge got built, but then how would we have gotten across to take photos from both sides of the river?! (Click here to visit in Google Maps.) During the summer, there's bungee jumping from the bridge in...
Visiting the temple was interesting; but nothing unexpected there. What was really fascinating for us was to walk up the hill behind and find it covered in foxholes, a network of semi-submerged walkways and even a concrete bunker. The Korean War didn't seem to have been from such a distant...
I've got to admit, it's pretty irritating that they put "Semi-professional Level" in English on the certificate. It doesn't say anything like this on the Korean side and it has no correspondence with anything mentioned on the Society website. It was merely the second of three levels offered for the...
What's a trip to the Korean countryside without a visit to a temple? (Click to visit in Google Maps.)
You really can't pick a much prettier place to stay for a night… (Click here to visit in Google Maps.)
Rather than make our reservation in advance, we decided to just see what was available when we got out to Cheorwon. There were a bunch of "pensions" (what Koreans call privately owned motel-ish places fixed up for vacationers) out near a gorge used in the summer for white-water rafting, but...
Cauvery and his friends were playing with tops last night: Apparently though this is more than a game. In the movie BayBlade vs Sun, an extended game of battling tops determins the destiny of the universe. We watched the movie on our recent visit to The Iron Triangle Memorial in...
This is the location of a memorial to the UN effort in the Korean War, as this area was the center of fierce fighting during the last two years of the Korean War; it was also in North Korean territory from 1945 until the War. There's some old military equipment...
The following is supposed to say, "스티븐 사랑해". Isn't that sweet?
