Piping-hot, fried, soup dumplings were the afternoon reward for a meandering, coffee-fueled morning spent walking all over Shanghai to conclude our week spent in China. As is our tradition, we had spent the previous 30 minutes or so searching around, indecisively evaluating various food options in the area, steadily increasing our hunger levels, which somehow …
While Mandi and I definitely enjoyed living our big-city lifestyle in Seoul (I don’t exactly know what that means, but I assume that’s how cool, big-city people talk, right?), we were pretty excited to leave the crowds of Beijing and head to the Huangshan mountains for the second stop of our week-long trip in China. …
Ok, so you know how when you’re a kid and 15 minutes feels like a long time, and an hour is for-ev-er, and, seriously, what even is a year? And then some random older person says something like, “when you’re older like me, time just flies by,” and then the child version of you thinks, …
The little dot on the AirBnB map said we were going in the right direction, so that was good... Waiting for our taxi After a flight delay leaving Seoul in September, we got through customs in Beijing at 1am, waited in line for a taxi, and showed the address to the driver, who began navigating …
Ahhh procrastination, that beautiful double-edged sword, offering the sweet, sweet satisfaction of avoiding the dreary task of doing something productive while simultaneously doing something decidedly unproductive and significantly more entertaining. It’s truly a beautiful thing. Most of the time...until that useful thing, you know, really needs to be done. At that point, shockingly, it seems …
I think we can all agree that, if you have the opportunity to reference The Office in any way, it’s basically required that you take the opportunity (apologies to anyone who thought there might be some Battlestar Galactica content coming your way. I assure you, it is not coming). Aside from the rather-enjoyable fact that …
We had finally gotten our bags from the carousel at Incheon airport outside of Seoul, after what seemed like an eternity of watching bag after bag take their personal victory lap around the metal merry-go-round, and were trying to find our way to the exit when we came across what was assuredly the fully-realized physical …
A few years ago, May 2nd, 2014 to be exact, Mandi and I were sitting nervously in the corner of Sun Ray Cafe, a popular post-mountain-bike-ride spot in the charming Hyde Park neighborhood of Boise. On this particular day, their garage doors were thrown open, inviting the warm spring air to filter into the building …
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The other day I was talking to someone who asked why Mandi and I intentionally applied for a job that sent us over to South Korea (versus getting assigned there). It’s a pretty common question when you move to a new country, I suppose. Did we have some prior connection with South Korea? (nope). Were …
On many evenings throughout the winter months, you’ll find me sitting on a couch, tense, perhaps with my hands on my face, as I nervously await the outcome of a Gonzaga basketball game that shouldn’t have been close but has somehow turned into a nailbiter (our game against University of Washington this past season comes …
I’m going to start this off by saying something highly controversial, so please brace yourselves. If you’d rather not continue, that’s fine; I understand. For those of you who are prepared, here we go:
Google Flights is a wonderful, time-sucking, travel-inducing tool, providing the sweet, sweet satisfaction of plugging in a random date and seeing where in the world you could fly to for the lowest amount of money. Since we’ve been in Seoul, many hours (days?) have been spent daydreaming about new travel destinations while playing with the various …
On any given weekend in Seoul, and even on weekdays for that matter, you can find groups of people, most often retirement-age and up, donning brightly-colored outdoor gear on their way out for a hike somewhere in the mountainous areas surrounding Seoul. From what we can tell, the required gear list, at least in winter …
A few weeks after arriving in Korea, we were spending some time in our hotel researching places that we might like to travel to when we came across a video advertising a fire festival on a beautiful island, which we obviously had to book tickets to immediately. And yes, maybe I’m intentionally trying to make …
You know what I didn’t really think about when we moved to South Korea? How to get a haircut. It wasn’t really on the short list of things to think about as we were navigating the logistics to move here, but it quickly became important a few weeks into our time here when I started to resemble the Geico caveman a couple of weeks in.
So, if you didn’t know already, we moved to South Korea just over a month ago! You might say to yourself, “a month is kind of a long time to go without providing your friends and family with any updates,” and to that we say, “my bad.” If we were chatting via the wonderful Korean …
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