Nic Trips

One of the best parts about the city of Ulsan that makes it stand out from other cities is it's biking and walking paths. Along both sides of the Taehwa river and a few of it's tributaries,for the bulk part of the city, there are paved and lit paths for biking and walking. (green = walkers, red = bikers) It is complete with signs, water break and toilet stops and exercise park stops to stretch and work out. Even thought I live very far from the center city, since I bought a bike a month and a half ago, I've been exploring several parts of the 5 main routes and even using it for long distance transport: changing my hour bus ride to city hall into an hour bike ride instead. On the map below, you can see the colored bike routes. I have done all of A (I live at the northern most tip of it), a third of B, and a small part of D. This weekend, we are going to do all of C! One weekend in particular, Shane suggested that we ride to Ilsan Beach in Dong-gu (the East Di...

About 2 months into the summer semester, the rest of the majority of the staff at Sincheon Elementary and I took an overnight trip to Namhae. Namhae is an island in the center of the southern coast of Korea, and it took about 4 hours to drive there from Ulsan. It's a beautiful island very famous for it's beautiful beaches, scenic roads, incredible views and....fish. Being and island, it's main industry is fishing, a particularly large quantity of which is anchovies. As we got closer to the island, we stopped the bus on a small pull off on the tiny, country road to walk out on the dock and view (take millions of pictures of) the island and it's large, famous bridge in the distance.   The weather was gorgeous: a perfect cool temperature, clear blue skies, and calm water, uninterrupted by any harsh winds. On the docks, we took several group photos, and then my principal proceeded to pull out some expensive rice and berry made liquor that tasted e...