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Day Trip to Busan

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The weekend after New Years, Andrew, Shane, and I decided to take a day trip to Busan. After looking up several things to possibly do there, we decided to go to Taejongdae Park (태종대 공원), which is on an island to the southwest of the city called Yeongdo (영도). We took bus 1127 from Ulsan (that goes almost all the way to may apartment) to the subway station on the northeast side of Busan. It only took about an hour and a half. From there we took a 45 minute subway ride to the island on the south of the city and walked across the bridge. The coast and harbor was filled with more boats than you could possibly count, and in the sky line of the city you could see all the cranes as evidence of  the constant construction. The weather was gorgeous and sunny. Eventually it got so warm that we were able to take of our coats. Once we crossed the bridge onto the island, we came across this sign that told us Taejongdae was 6.6 km away, on the far end of the island. We ...
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We kicked off New Year's Eve with dinner at an Indian restaurant in downtown Ulsan. After eating and having a few beers, we headed to Ulsan Grand Park to see the midnight performance countdown and fireworks. Being on the east coast of Korea and being on of the first time zones to experience the New Year, it is a very common activity to watch the first sunrise "of the world" at the beach just 30 minutes south of the city. After hanging out at a bar until about 3am, we took the public buses from the park to the beach and began the long, cold wait to morning. Near the beach they had two giant tents set up, with chairs and heaters inside. One of them had a movie playing, but was already packed when we arrived, so we went to the other one and huddled around a heater to keep warm. In no time, the place was PACKED, and everyone was carrying around balloons saying "희망 2015" (meaning "My 2015 wish"). At about 6:30 am, the sky ...
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(The "farewell" cake my brother got me for my Going-Away party.) Hello everyone, and welcome to my travel blog! I have created this site under the pressure of several suggestions and insistence from many people that wish to keep up with my travels over the next year as I am living and working abroad in South Korea. I've also decided that it would be beneficial to my own purposes to document all of my travels past, present, and future in one place. I will do my best to keep up on posting about my exciting new endeavors in addition to making some pages about my previous ones, but I suspect I will be very busy getting acquainted and settled in to this new place over the next month, so I won't make any promises on regularity.
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