Thoughts & Things From South Korea

  Sejong City Skyline One goal Brandon and I have made together is to visit every province of South Korea before we leave for home. Now that we are into our planned vacation time we have scoped out a plan of attack and are looking to see this a reality before the end of our Winter Vacation at the end of February! We have already crossed a few of the provinces off of our list but are making a concentrated effort to hit the remainder of them in the next month. There are nine official provinces but there are also eight 'special' or 'metropolitan' cities/areas that we will do our best to hit along the way. I will share more about each area as we get to it but today I am going to share last weekends trip to officially cross Chuncheongnam-do or Chungnam off the list! This was a solo adventure just the two of us to see the north (buk) and south (nam) province of Chuncheong! We used one vacation day on Friday to make this a three day weekend and spent two nights in the city of ...

If there's anything I've learned in my time here in Korea, it is how to have an action packed weekend in a new city with very little time. This last weekend Brandon and I met up with some friends and headed to Daegu! Daegu is the fourth most populated city in the country and only a two hour bus ride from our city. We had initially made plans to visit Daegu over Christmas but plans changed multiple times with the country going into an increased lock down and we decided to postpone our plans. It was such a great opportunity to get out of the house and see a new city after a few months of hanging closer to home. With really no plans other than our Airbnb we did a lot of walking and had a great time catching up with friends.  New Year's day we headed out at 8 am. Our bus arrived at 10 am and we searched for the nearest McDonald's while we waited for our friends to arrive. Upon arrival at the shopping center that enclosed the McDonald's I spotted an Auntie Anne's pre...