From the Phone

I finally figured out how to transfer photos from my cell phone to my computer. (I bought a cable.) So, here are a few shots from the past nine months. Enjoy.

Holy Crap...

...the Blog is Back, Baby!

It's been a busy ten months since my last post. I returned to radio, Jeremy has started talking up a storm, the seasons have come and gone... and, finally, I have decided to resurrect Mokpo, ROK City.

Here are a couple of shots of some of my co-workers: Soo (my co-host), Mike (glasses), Pete (Scottish)...





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More posts coming soon. Booyah!

Cloud Top

As we near the end of August, Mokpo's weather is turning a *little* cooler. This morning was fantastic: the temperature was in the upper 60's while a few clouds clung to the hills that surround the city. See for yourself:

Smoke Monster

Last Summer, the mosquitoes were pretty bad. Not a single night passed without finding myself under attack by squadrons of the little bastards, buzzing me for hours. Rachel would awake at 2a.m. to the sound of me smacking at the walls or ceiling, cursing and frothing at the mouth, trying to squash a single mosquito- a fruitless exercise, since there were always about a million waiting to take her place. I really thought I would go insane by the time Autumn rolled into this part of the peninsula. When the harvest season finally did arrive, the mosquitoes missed their cue and lingered into November.

This year hasn't been as bad (so far!) even though we have had what seems like far more rain than the summer of '07. The lower bug-bite count might have something to do with the door-to-door mosquito fogger. I never actually saw the guy, but he was busy in our neighborhood, carrying some kind of four-horsepower engine attached to a supply of winged-insect-apocalypse. I love that guy.

A Day and a Night in Mokpo

Public Art

I still have a ton more photos from Boseong's green tea fields and I will get around to posting them... For now, however, here are a few pictures from the streets of Seoul.

Photographing the Photographers

More pictures from Boseong...

Here are a handful of shots Rachel and I took of other tourists taking pictures of each other and the tea fields. It's all so meta. (Click any picture for the big version.)

People

Through the Windshield

Here are some pictures from various buses we rode yesterday on our way to and from the Green Tea fields. Click each one for the larger versions.















BTW: In an effort to get the 'blog to load faster, I have removed a few of the widgets from the sidebar and reduced the number of posts displaying on the main page. Hooray for efficiency.

Picking a Winner

Our friend Lauren is in town for a week! We're having fun Korean adventures and taking lots of pictures, so look for 'blog updates all this week. Today we visited Boseong, famous for its beautiful green tea fields. Before I post any of the many pictures from the fields, however, I wanted to share a couple candids of a woman keeping busy in a neighboring bus. These were taken while we were waiting to pull out of the station.





In her defense- and to mitigate some of the meanness I'm feeling for posting these- I must add that the weather has been awfully dry lately and the air in the buses is terrible. So, pick away sweet ajumma, pick away...