Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Last day in Korea


Looking forward to home, but with a last meal of bean paste seafood stew and kimchee, quail eggs soaked in red tea and banana milk.

Sunday, August 01, 2010

On to Busan

The air hangs in semi- transparent sheets, between mountainsides fading from deep green to gray in the mist. This is the steamy season in Korea.

Busan is not far, but we stop for a rest stop and soon after there are sandwiches. An hour later we are standing at the beach.

The air burns the lungs, chemicals mixing with heat, humidity, car exhaust and cigarette smoke. I walk the boardwalk slightly lightheaded, pausing near the stacks of tubes, neat rows of beach umbrellas stretching out in five rows in either direction, covering the sand in artificial shade. But there are no shadows.