Just a couple of Beijingers ...: September 2012

a sheisty view from an awesome hostel room in Busan ... Apple Hostel, they're cool for so so so many reasons.

We've never seen the money firsthand of South Korea, and, hopefully, this pic qualitly is poor enough to not rouse suspicion. The smaller bills are about the size of an american bill, but the larger ones are too large for a wallet ... don't know why that is

Your basic side dishes to any meal. It's recently come to our attention that Field is allergic to the bean paste ... or the kim-che ... one or the other ... But every meal comes with many many vegetable sides to enjoy

FISH MARKET!!

This tower overlooks all of Busan ... There's a love angle worked in there, and it's awesome. It's a good way to see how the city is set up. Busan is something like 6 million people, and it's spread all over a few bays

DRAGONS!!!

The whole location is about love. Love love love love!

All around the eastern side, there are locks that people have put on the fence with wishes of everlasting love written on them. Some are ooold! Very heartwarming!

Shots from the tower!!!

more love thingy's you can buy at the cafe to put on the ... the love wall? They must renew this thing every 6 months or so

Baseball is alive and well in South Korea. Hopefully, pics to come!!!

Sunsets from the tower

Raaaaachel!!

More of the city. These pictures don't quite show how expansive the city is. The city of Busan is created on a series of bays and mountaintops ... it's amazing how large it is. There's video ... coming soon?

What's going on, people's? We have finally found a hostel that has some nice internet and we've really nothing to do since there is a typhoon rocking the island. So ... it's time to get the blog a rolling. We're just going to jam up some pictures with some descriptions. So far, we've been through Japan - Tokyo to Kyoto to Foukoka - then caught a ferry over to the southern tip of South Korea in Busan and then bounced down to Jeju island ... and then made our way down to the south side in Seogwepo. But, I think the signs here say it's segwepo, in any case. Here's a few pictures taken on the ride TO japan

drinks are on the house on international flights, but the time difference messes with you so much it doesn't matter much. we fell asleep not long after these beers were beat.

a pic from our seat monitor thingy ... this is, y'know ... the flight path and whatnot

our first into to how our time was oooooffff

the hostel we crashed at. out in the "country" of tokyo. it was very rural, but, within not too long on a bus, we were back in the nest of tokyo

some of the vegetation around our hostel

a big, cool building that dominated the section we were in.

we got a little feisty, and decided to take an elevator to the 53rd floor of a big bank building, this is one image from ... that ... that time ...

this place was holding service when we walked up on it. shoes off. a pretty quietly chill way to start the day ...

there is this HUGE bus station/mall/convention center/food market in Kyoto. Just so happens, we got to hang out during this very chill Hawaiian song and hulu competition. These pictures don't quite do the moment justice. There's row and rows and ROWS of seating that go up forever. It was lightly raining, we got some hand made sushi from the underground market ... Hawaiian music? Not a bad Sunday afternoon

from the rooftop

Shots from the top of the Market ... This was some kind of a rooftop farm, one of a few that we saw while there ...

public art

The concert hall ... if you can imagine the first amitheatre shot and think that you are now behind it you get a feeling of how big this place was ... Nuts. On the right there is an escalator to go alllll the way to the top of the whole complex ...

Foukoka ferry station. Foukoka seemed a lot like Milwaukee. On the water, kind of quiet and chill, but a lot of beauty in the physical city itself. These pictures don't do it justice, it was 7 in the morning and we were on very very little sleep ...