Lunar New Year's Weekend - Sokcho

So as to celebrate New Years for the second time in 2 months, Shannon, Nic, Gilles, Geoff and I set off for the east coast, last friday night after work. We anticipated a 16-hour, bumper-to-bumper epic bus ride. Somehow the holiday traffic was headed the opposite direction, and so we arrived in Sokcho with about 5 hours before the sun rose than morning. Which of course was filled with fried bacon (samgyeopsal-here, eating 3 pounds of pork is legit), poker, and soju, followed up with frisbee on the beach. A beautiful start to a very merry new year.


On our last afternoon we did get out to spend a few hours wandering in Seoraksan park, the crown jewel of South Korea's mountain wildernesses. While the clouds kept the tallest peaks from view, we were far from ambitious and took our time among the streams, leaves, and temples below.

What follows is a short testament to the events between arriving in Sockcho and our musings beneath Seorak. Sleep, I'm learning, is best kept for weekdays, and too much laughter is simply an impossibility. Another one for the books. All the best for 2007, in the lunar calendar that is.