Wanderlust Episode 5: Into the Wild

Wanderlust Episode 5: Into the Wild

Let's follow Kristin into the wild and learn more about her hike from Mexico to Canada along the Pacific Crest Trail.

Gamaksan Mountain Trail 감악산

Gamaksan Mountain Trail 감악산

This year's winter teacher field trip came early. We rented a bus and headed to Paju for a day of touristy site seeing. My co-teacher was super sweet and despite not going translated the schedule into English for me. What I should've done with this information was research the places we were going before hand [...]

Takatsuki Settsukyo Park River Walk

Takatsuki Settsukyo Park River Walk

While I was visiting it turned out there was also going to be a hiking event with a group my friend had gone with before so I joined in. It seems, every Sunday a group meets up through Meetup and explores some new part of the Kansai area. We all met at Takatsuki station, ran [...]

Neuti Korean food and Teacher’s Day hiking

Neuti Korean food and Teacher’s Day hiking

Teacher's Day in Korea is on May 15th. Every year my school does something different. My first year in Korea the students made cheesecake and brought them out to teachers. The second year our principle decided it'd be fun to have a teachers version of sports day. This year the sports day was swapped out [...]

Kuang Si Waterfalls

Kuang Si Waterfalls

There's two types of people who visit the Kuang Si waterfalls, hikers and swimmers. People are either dressed for hiking, with sensible shoes, cameras, bug protection and hats or in flip-flops with a towel over their shoulder. We were the latter and the minority. When visiting Kuang Si Waterfalls our tour guide booked us a [...]

파도소리길 Padosori-gil: Gyeongju’s coastal trail

파도소리길 Padosori-gil: Gyeongju’s coastal trail

Gyeongju spreads out to the coast, including a long trail along the way with a view of the ocean. My friend really wanted to go for a nice scenic hike so we headed to Eupcheon Mural village via the 150 bus (which took about 2 hours from downtown) on Chuseok and then followed the trail [...]