Some of you may have noticed that I still don’t have any pictures up yet. Those will have to wait until I get some more bandwidth.
We’re leaving Auckland tomorrow. Tomorrow night we’ll be camping on the Coromandel Peninsula, and then the next day we’re driving down to Rotorua. For the next four days there, […]

Wow. New Zealand is beautiful. We’ve only been here for 24 hours, in Auckland and I’d have to say it’s the cleanest, most unspoiled place I’ve ever been. We’re actually staying with a friend that I met via Couchsurfing in a suburb called Torbay. We went to Long Bay Regional Park, which is this large […]

We leave for New Zealand tonight. We’ve had a great time the last few days in Seoul. Over the weekend, we stayed with our friends Derek and Yoshimi (and their two adorable kids) in Uijongbu. We had met them once before in Ohio, but this was the first time we’d really had a chance to […]

We’re back in Seoul. On Thursday, we decided to take a trip to a city called Gyeong-ju, which is on the southeastern coast of Korea. It’s the site of the old capital of the ancient Silla Kingdom (one of the golden ages in Korean history, from what I gather). It took about 4.5 hours to […]

Feeling ridiculously helpless, I decided to learn how to read Korean this morning. It’s much simpler to learn than Japanese (only 24 characters and very cool, as Matt pointed out in a comment in my last post). By lunch time I was able to read about 80% of the things we saw. Of course, I […]