Duck mud meat roasted

  Glurmff!

POOREUN PHARMACY

  Teehee!  This makes no sense, but I just woke up, so whatever.

  'Listen pharmacist, my poo is reuned.'
  'Did you use your bum hand?'
  'Yes, but it's still a Japanese flag back there.'
  'Kimchi in, kimchi out, brother.'
  'Fuck my life.'

Okpo harbor

Kimchi a'fermenting

A strip of old seafood restos

Some kind of good luck ritual for a new boat (?)

DSME shipyards - the sole employer in Okpo, really

A boardwalk dealio

Not sure if I'd be eating fish caught next to a shipyard...

...or next to this milky mystery

  I checked out Okpo's harbor almost two weeks ago.  It probably still looks like this.

Morning thunder!!!

Sniffing tailpipes to get friendly

Biggest helmet on Earth

Spooning out front

  Too many exclamation points?  Never!!!!!!  After taking off the yellow basket (I know, I know, it was cool, but it had to go), Amadeus and I took a little test drive up the coast.  I need better gloves.  My bike isn't exactly the youngest girl at the party, but I shined her up, and she's looking aiight.  I'm definitely going to paint an American flag on the tank.
  So it turns out I'm pretty good at shifting up, and I'm getting a handle on downshifting on hills, but I'm still Stally McStallerson when starting her up and at red lights, so I'm going to need a few more days of around-the-block test drives before I do any circumnavs.  I was worried about the weight, but it felt very light and natural in the corners.
  When we were done our war ride, we went to the 'Sweet Buns Cafe' and drank hazelnut coffee, while trying to redeem our manhood by talking in gruff voices about gears and oil.

Heavy metal thunder

I'm filling the basket with rainbows and kittens!

Step 2: Start a gang

  Here she is, the new ride.  Yes, yes, there's a big funny yellow basket on the back.  I'm currently sourcing some tools to hack that thing off.  On my first ride I stalled the crap out of it a few times getting it started, then wobbled off, to the concern/amusement of the scoot shop guy.  Once I got it on a straight stretch of road I opened it up pretty well though.  I'm still not 100% on the gears, but I plan on riding around the block for a few days to make sure I can rub my stomach and pat my head at the same time.  Actually, Amadeus and I are planning on heading up the coast tomorrow morning.
  These bigger bikes are all metal, and they rattle like a bucket of nails.  That is good.  Don't get me wrong, I loved the shit out of my plastic toilet, I mean Forte, but I definitely feel a bit manlier riding this hawg.  My next step is going to be making a shirt that says: 'If you can read this, my road-wife fell off' on the back.

Best meal ever

Perfection

He loves when meat goes in his mouth

  Best foreign food in Korea, that is.  I'm having a hard time thinking of a better meal I've had in Korea in a long while.  Cobain (who snores by the way, so I feel the pain of others who claim that I do the same) was crashing on my couch for a few days, and we rolled into nearby Okpo last night to check shit out.  We ended up following some good advice and going to a Turkish place cleverly named 'Turkish House'.  We opted to go big, in lieu of going home, and got the 60$ two-person feast.  It was insane-diculous, I'm a believer.
  After some bread and soup (that mercifully didn't taste like cigarettes, unlike the Turkish place in Gohyeon), they brought out nan bread and Thor's meat plate.  There was meat everywhere, I kept finding new clumps of it hiding under other stuff.  There's still more meat than blood in my veins.  Damn.  Sweet-ass tea and tapioca/pistachio pudding for dessert was equally badass.  He's coming back this weekend, and we're doing the 70$ three-person feast.
  Later on, we made some startling observations in Okpo, but I'll get into all of that another time.

Geoj-signs, more

Meat-house cafe

Cha-moan!

Best name ever for a bar?

Dead Smurfs on a stick are considered a delicacy here

  There was a bar in Jeju City called 'The Bitches'.  Regrettably, I never got a picture.  I spotted a bar in Okpo called 'We'll Come', but was camera-less.  Apparently all the European engineers at the shipyards in Okpo (10 minutes down the road) have led to an overabundance of Filipina hooker type bars there.  The world is sure...interesting?

Hiking Geyryongsan

Amadeus finds a frozen mammoth

My hood is at 11 o'clock in this pic

Soon to be explored side of the island

There, it's something

The valley that used to be a POW camp

Samsung shipyards - the sole employer in Gohyeon, really

  I climbed the tallest mountain on Geoje before work last week with Amadeus.  Solid hike, good times.  Plenty of tits up here, and we spotted a Eurasian Jay.  Good news, the knee seems to be mending well.  Who needs a doctor?  Not me.

The Sadies and Neko Case - Eastwinds

Righteous.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NsfAvGlaJ0

Cinnamon street cake things

  These bad boys in-a-cup cost less than a dollar - another good walking-around food.  They're filled with hot cinnamon-y awesome-sauce.

  Just got back from kicking Busan's ass with Cobain.  Best.  Weekend.  Ever.  Some details to follow, but most will be omitted to protect the guilty.

Frank Sinatra - It was a Very Good Year

  Show 'em, Frankie.  Climbed the tallest mountain on Geoje this morning.  Now I'm tired, like a dog on fire.  Turkish kebabs and The Rum Diary, now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwv-DxOPhSc

Ice-eat Mountain vs.Corsica = conspiracy?

  Ice-eat Mountain, when viewed from above, looks disturbingly like Corsica, a place I dearly love.  George Noori needs to start looking into this shit, I think it means something, more than mashed potatoes do.

Solo Ninja Day Raid: Ice-eating Crazy-hike

I was aiming for the pass, but ended up going over yon hill on the right

End of the trail

Steep, rocky, and Tim Burton-y

Deer shite

Sweet sweet moutain ice to slake my thirst

Desert boots - not the best hiking footwear available

Follow the deer trail

The inevitable hardened gun emplacement at the top

Not the worst spot to be buried

Natural spring, unnatural spigot

No pot of gold at the end, just all of that shite

  On a whim (a whim!) I decided to take a shortcut over the hills I'd heard about.  I guessed it was in the pass between two mini-mountains, and headed up, with no hiking boots, water, or food of course.  After a while the trail petered out and I somehow inexplicably missed the pass and ended up scrambling up the steep, trail-less mini-mountain on the right.  I was very tempted to turn back, as my desert boots are not what I'd call legit hiking boots.  Steve McQueen never took his off, but that's beside the point.  My still-shitty knee made the climb a bit more of an adventure.  It took a good 30 minutes, but by sticking to the switchback deer trails I managed to make my way up towards the top.  It's there where I found a vein of sweet sweet mountain ice to eat.  'Nature will provide', I thought to myself wisely.  The adventure of it all.