My Friend Condor

 My good friend Condor has been in my life since 6th grade.  He has been with me through a lot of ups with swim team, being buddies, and then we even lived together for 3 years after college.  He has really looked after me as I have found my new path in sobriety and I think he carries a lot of honor for looking after friends with grace and caring.  We have shared many of laughs over the years, a lot of flip cup games and we even have our own hand signals.  In light of all these nice things, I'm posting this picture of him getting his finger fixed after cutting it with a knife where he looks funny.  I love him

Korea- Travel and Getting Lost

 We booked it back to Seoul after our adventure in Danyang.  For some reason renting a car on a trip where we returned it at the original location wasn't bad, but taking it one way was hundreds of dollars.  We decided we had to try the KTX high speed rail to Busan.  Some Americans may know the great movie Train to Busan.  Wilson had a park he wanted to see so we had planned to get off in a little podunk town.  Unfortunately for us, Korean towns have a little two to three letters at the end of a city name.  We wanted to head to Gyeong-Ju.  We accidently bought a ticket for Gyeong-San.  This was the equivalent of going trying to make it to Charlottesville and ending up in Waynesboro; aiming for a city full of historical sites and ending up in a working class neighborhood with no hotels.  Since we had been on the last train, the station manager was sweet and let us sleep in the station.  Wilson made a fort with chairs to stay off the cold floor and I used children's books as a sleeping mat.  We eventually made it to our destination, which, its fair to say, didn't have many tourists since we were often the only people anywhere. 

From Movie Train to Busan, total badass Ma Dong-seok

Wilson and I locked in the train station,
see the clock above the door

Our sleeping location, Wilson used that chair and the string
of books was my sleeping spot

Our usual experience when finding a place to eat

Korea- Dodamsambong Peaks

 Danyang continued to impress, we saw the famous Dodamsambong Peaks which rise from the river.  Its supposed to be a man with his concubine and wife although neither Wilson or I saw it.  The peaks around there are beautiful and our photos didn't really do it justice.  Also, the symbols on the bathrooms were really quite different than anywhere else we saw