The traffic in Seoul is horrendous and infinite. Only utter madness could explain one's desire to travel by car or bus rather than train. So, although we were told that it only takes 40 minutes to get to our destination we ended up in the school bus almost three hours. The estimation, I assume, was based on the idea that Time = Distance/Rate (with natural addition of a few minutes for lights etc.). However, in Korea the formula must incorporate complex logarithms and variables, such as how many vendors have set up tents in the road, to achieve any form of accuracy. We took the train to get back and it did indeed only take 40 minutes.We saw lovely mountains, water, and fall foliage. We enjoyed Korean food. We played kickball. In spite of all that my highlight of the day was finding a fantastic example of "Engrish" in whatever little town we ended up in. It's not upside down because the location to which the arrow refers is indeed on the right.
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by the way, I may be in the Philippines in early December or January - not sure yet.
Want to see if we can meet up on a weekend, either in Manila or Seoul? I have no idea how long it takes to get from one to the other.
Yea, that's a possibility:) I'll see how far the Philippines is from Korea. I have a week off at the beginning of January and a few days off for the lunar New Year in Feb. from what I hear.
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