I slept very deeply, probably because of all the walking yesterday. I was surprised to hear thunder. It's rare in Korea – certainly I don't associate it with fall weather. It was raining hard – the swooshing sound of cars and buses on the busy streets echoed outside my window. My legs were sore. I made some coffee.
Day: October 21, 2012
Caveat: Walking Around Ganghwa Island
Ganghwa Island is a very historical place. It’s a large island approximately straight west from Seoul and also straight west from Ilsan, but there’s not really any direct route there from Ilsan. I took a zig-zaggy bus over there with my friend Peter, and we walked a 22 km route down the island from the bus terminal in the main town at the northern end all the way to a very historic temple complex called Jeondeungsa. It had a lot of tourists. We saw a lot of rice being harvested. We stopped at a hole-in-the-wall called “Mexican Pizza Chicken” and had some chicken (they didn’t have pizza, oddly) that didn’t seem very Mexican. But it wasn’t bad. Random strangers handed us fruit and nuts. Some of this, we ate. It was a good day, but now I’m very tired. Here are many pictures, starting with a googlemap of the route, in context west of Goyang (Ilsan – where I live) and Bucheon (where Peter lives).
So, without a detailed travelogue – perhaps just a random comment here or there – here are some pictures, in chronological order.
A farm house with a mushroom-shaped roof.
A cute dog in front of a very western style house.
A rice-harvesting machine, cutting rice.
A country lane.
Fall colors.
A sign to a tomb of Leegyubo.
A farm house with a strange but interesting design.
Exploring Lee Gyu-bo’s tomb site.
Caveat: I find dumptrucks exciting. Because… of the blog name, y’know? [UPDATE: I liked this orange dumptruck so much that it later became the “brand” image for this blog.]
Mexican Chicken!
