• More temples – Wat Pho

    On the 2nd day in Thailand, I used an app called get your guide. It has different tours you can go on, so I found a walking tour of 2 of the main temples in Bangkok. You will see the term Wat a lot from here on out. Wat just means Buddhist Temple or monastery.…

  • Thailand

    Leaving Hong Kong to Bangkok was another easy flight. We landed in Bangkok, and I made it through customs quickly. I left the air-conditioned airport to find a taxi or bus and was immediately hit with a wave of heat. I did not know that every pore I had could generate sweat that fast, but…

  • Hong Kong

    So, while I was in Korea, I decided to check on flights from Seoul. My credit card points got me down here [Thailand], so a free flight. I flew on Cathay Pacific.  The airline was good, the food was decent, and I liked that there was no boarding in sections, I just lined up in…

  • Seoul

    After Busan, I took an express train into Seoul. It was a good ride, only a few hours, and then I had to figure out the subway lines in Seoul to get to my hotel. I found a DMZ tour and woke up insanely early to get an hour subway ride to the pickup point.

  • Gamcheon

    We left the port area and went to Gamcheon, a colorful neighborhood built during the Korean War by refugees. It is now a culturally significant area and a major tourist attraction because of the beauty and historical value.

  • More Busan

    After the temple, we went to Blue Sand Beach, previously blue snake beach. We went out onto an observatory over the water where they would dive for seafood. I had a spicy seafood ramen with a couple of dentists from Singapore. We then moved to MI Po, another Port to pick up people who took…

  • Boat to Busan

    The other day, I took a ferry from Fukuoka, Japan, to Busan. Busan is the 2nd largest city in South Korea and is on the beach. It is beautiful.  I was only going to stay one night, but I found a tour, so I made another night of hotel reservations.  The good thing with having…

  • Hypocenter

    On my last day in Nagasaki,  I left the temple with the turtle and Kannon and started walking to Peace Park. On my way, I saw a broken gate and two trees that survived the atomic blast. These were remnants of the atomic blast. Two trees that were originally thought to be dead but grew…

  • Last day in Nagasaki

    My last day of walking around Nagasaki,  I visited a temple that I saw out of my hotel room window. I saw it at just the right angle, and it looked like a giant turtle head. I just happened to open my curtains and saw it, so I figured I would walk up to it.…

  • Walking in footsteps of the distant past

    Late summer 1945, an 18 year old Marine, just out of Paris Island, boards a ship in the Pacific Ocean and heads west towards the Pacific theater, where our forces were battling the Japanese military.  Sometime after August 9th, he lands in Nagasaki and is part of the peacekeeping/occupation force. When he landed, he was…

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