Tuesday the 19th, a train trip (KTX; very nice) from Busan to Dong Daegu and then a drive further along the Andong River provided lots of opportunities to see egrets in the rice fields. I got no photos nor could we identified which egrets we saw (Jane? Sammy?), but there were many. There’ll be reports about the sights and such once I can stop long enough to record them.
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Monday the 18th we used public transportation to get from our lodging to Beomeosa Temple. It was about an hour-long trip. We had to find the right bus to get to the subway, take the right train to the correct exit for Beomeosa, and then take a bus to the site. It was a bit of an adventure, but we made our way through the maze.
Of course, not reading the language is one problem and that it takes time to match road signs with labels on maps because the characters are not familiar is another. Still, the public transportation system is quite good. There a many busses, which makes ror a bit of potential confusion but also makes it relatively easy to get from one place to another on surface streets. The subway is quite clean, quick, and timely.
Thanks to the Lonely Planet guide, some help from a couple of natives, and friendly bus drivers, we made the round trip with relative ease. Our only slip was when I got us off the first bus a few blocks early (I had to stand and couldn’t see, then I misunderstood something Pat said about the location), so we had to walk those few blocks.
Wed AM we made the short jaunt to IAD, parked in long-term lot, schlepped bags onto and off of the shuttle, and (after standing in multiple lines), secured our boarding passes to fly. Following the usual hassle of security checks, we were into the safe zone (presumably fewer concealed weapons on one side of that check point than on the other). Whew!
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