Well, Jon made it back safe from his China trip. He stopped in for some video games, this afternoon, and brought his digital camera. Here's a picture he snapped from our first day in Jeju. (I wanted to get a picture of the burning truck, but Jon, the bastard, wouldn't let me stop for camera batteries on the way to Seogwipo.)
(BTW: I know I said no more Jeju pictures, but, come on, it's a truck... on fire!)
Here are the last of the Jeju photos, thank you Jebus! We had a lot of fun, but frankly, I'm pretty sick of posting these damn things.
The first few are from the Manjanggul Lava Tubes which formed sometime between 300k and 100k years ago. Just in time for a quick visit on our way to the ferry terminal.
The rest of the pics are from the trip home. I have to say, arriving in Mokpo- after only three days away- really did feel like coming home.
Whew! Glad that's done... now I can play some video games and relax.
Our final day on Jeju started early. Our ferry was leaving at 2pm and we wanted to see the World's Longest Lava Tube... Here are some pictures from the bus ride to said tube. Included is a shot of Jon with the ladies at the Jeju Folk Art Complex who were very sweet to a couple of traveling white boys.
BTW: The title of this post is from a very excellent Bob Dylan tune: "Love Minus Zero/No Limit". Hear a live verion from 1992 (at San Jose State University).
Man, is this post multimedia or what??
The first picture in my previous post is probably my favorite from the Jeju trip. So, I decided to play with it a little in Photoshop. Here's what I came up with.
As Rachel pointed out, it has a Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil look to it. Not what I was looking for, but I'm (mostly) happy with the result, nonetheless. If only I could get the blur tool to work a little better...
Jeju's southern city, Seogwipo, was very clean and definitely tourist oriented. Lots of the people we met spoke English, especially many middle age and older residents- in contrast to Mokpo where it's mainly the kids who stop to say "hello" on the street.
Here are some pics from around town. (Click for the big version of each.)
The Koreans love English. From t-shirts with ungrammatically-funny phrases on their fronts to consumer products, movies and television, they like to see that good old Roman Alphabet in print. Doesn't matter if the English makes much sense. Doesn't matter if it's out of context, anachronistic, or just plain weird- as long as it's in English.
Here are three different hotels we saw, in Jeju, with a nice international flavor.
And here are some more Jeju pics... in English.
So, none of these is very funny. Try Engrish.com for a look at the good stuff.
More pics from beautiful Jeju-do. The first is another AutoStitch composite. The rest are from Jeongbang waterfall.
Click each for the big version.
Having finished his year of teaching in Korea, Jon is off to China for a few weeks. Rachel and I wish him good travels and no dysentery...
We had a lot of fun in the city of Seogwipo, on Jeju Island, but we both agreed: the Jeongbang Waterfall was the best part. We sat at the base of the thing for a couple of hours, enjoying the cool breeze and refreshing spray. Here are some pictures from the trip. The last picture is a composite I made using AutoStitch.
Look for more pictures from Jeju... coming soon.
I love digital cameras: snap as many pics as you want; no film to load; no counting down to the next reload; no waiting for development; in short, instant gratification.
I took nearly 500 pictures during my trip to Jeju Island with my good chin-gu, Jon. In fact, I took too many pictures for one post. So, let's throw a few at a time against the blog-wall and see what sticks.
I'll post them in mostly chronological order, beginning with our departure from Mokpo.
Remember: click a pic to see the large (suitable for wallpaper!) version.
