Last week, we spent a “relaxing” four days circumnavigating Jeju Island. Luckily, through the magic of my GPS and Google Earth, you can check out our route around the Island, including camp sites and lunch spots over 340 kilometers of quad-splitting madness.
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Sometimes the language barrier we face can be a challenge in even the most familiar of situations.
I was just feeling a bit hungry so I decided to head down to the corner 7-Eleven and pick up something for lunch. I looked through their refrigerated section and found a delicious looking mixed vegitable noodle bowl (noodles, letuice, egg, and a spicy sauce) for only 2000 won. I picked it up along with some multi colored rice balls (tteok) and went over to the register to pay. The girl behind the counter scanned the bowl, looked quizzically at the register as it made a long beeping sound, and looked back at me with an expression I’ve come to know means ‘I have no idea how I’m going to explain this to you…’. Eventually she gestured at the sell by date on the package: 06/28/09 and said, a bit unsurely, ‘date’. I said ‘date?’ back to her and made Korean index-fingers-in-an-X gesture for ‘no’; she nodded. I tried to gesture that it was perfectly ok with me if she sold me almost expired letuice and noodles, but it seemed lost on her that I’d still want to buy them. Eventually, hungry and tired of trying, I returned the noodles to their origional location on the shelf (which she didn’t seem to have a problem with) and bought some rice triangles instead. They were good I suppose, but damnit… I wanted those expired noodles!
Jeju Island is known for three things: wind (it’s windy), stone(full of volcanoes), and women(all the men die at sea fishing). However I will always think of it as being full of delicious black pigs (also known as “shit pigs” for their diet of human waste), oranges, and endless bike rides.
It took us four days, but we managed to ride the nearly 200km path around the island. I can honestly say I don’t think my legs have ever been this tired before in my life.
Packing up for the ride. We had no idea what was coming.
Resting for a few minutes on the coast. Perfect weather the entire trip.
Sunset at our beachside campsite on the first day.
We're a group of twenty-somethings traveling the world after only three months of minimum-wage work. We started with nothing to see just how far we can go, and have a few good adventures along the way.
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