We’re trying to take an account of our trip so far and it’s pretty intense. In two weeks we’ve visited 5 cities, ate 25 completely different Korean meals, slept at 6 love motels, drank 6 bottles of Soju, over 200 bottles of beer and suffered from 7 serious hangovers. Here is a day in the life
I don’t know how Vinnie conned me into this but we voluntarily and without necessitating circumstances stayed at a strangers house in Pusan. It did not go very well. I mentioned that we met up with a few couch surfers last night and other than making their ears bleed with the sound of Vinnie’s rapping,
I found bathing heaven in Busan.  This may have been the best thing I have ever done in any country, ever. Yes, I was bare-ass nekkid in front of dozens of women.  And yes, perhaps I didn’t understand exactly how to exfoliate like a Korean woman. BUT OH MY GOD, I AM CLEAN. Vinnie and I
Pusan is the second biggest city in ROK but after a cra-cray birthday weekend in Daegu, we were a little tired to make the hour trip south to apply for our Chinese visas. Really the thought of dealing with any consulate is enough to send me into a stress nap. But we’ve learned how to recover
After a nice night of raging American style in Daegu (say it like a stoner – Duuude, we’re going to Day-guuuuuu), we managed to get all three couples out of the city to hit up the very traditional annual Andong Mask Festival. We were promised amazing Andong jjimdak (jim-duck), painted masks and a pretty cool
This is what we saw of Daegu, South Korea:
Holy crap, Gyeongju (kee-young-ju) is amazing. You barely need to leave the motel to run into ancient burial mounds 5 stories tall, stone Buddha’s from the 9th century and a myriad of pagodas, temples and artifacts. Hwangseong Park, General Kim Yusin We rented bicycles near the bus terminal and managed to cover tons of ground.
This was our first adventure without Travis and we were both fairly nervous, if only about what were going to end up eating. After the pig intestine meal it became clear to me that we have no idea what any of the signs in this country mean. Often signs have a pig or a cow
We’ve been in South Korea for a week and it feels like months. With the onslaught of new foods, smells and concepts – along with the insane drinking culture- we haven’t had much time to process everything that we’ve been doing. There is a lot to go through and with our seriously non-existent expectations about