by bbeckel | Oct 19, 2013 | Korea
We had a very adventurous weekend last weekend. People here have commented about us being “doers”. Go figure. 🙂 Saturday, we got up very early to try to climb to the top of Mt. Halla – the tallest mountain in South Korea. We live at about 30 meters...
by bbeckel | Oct 11, 2013 | Korea
After leaving the Temple Stay at Beomeosa in northern Busan, we headed off to find a place to stay close to our ferry for the next day. We didn’t have any suggestions, so just wandered. The options were thin, and we ended up with a pretty dingy place. Thankfully...
by bbeckel | Oct 10, 2013 | Korea
When I think of Buddhist life, I think of quiet meditation, slow walks, appreciating nature, and vegetarian cooking. Sounds, relaxing, easy, perfect for a vacation! Boy did I learn. Patrick and I signed up for one of Korea’s 100+ Temple Stay programs. In 2002,...
by bbeckel | Oct 9, 2013 | Korea
One of my favorite parts of our travel was spending a day and night in a traditional Korean folk village in Nagan. There are several of these villages around the country, where the residents have agreed to continue maintaining traditional lifestyles in order to...
by bbeckel | Oct 3, 2013 | Korea
For our Chuseok holiday (1 week break), we traveled around the Southern coast of mainland South Korea – our first visit to the mainland! There’s no way I can share all the details. Our week was packed full of activities. We stayed one night in each place...
by bbeckel | Sep 24, 2013 | Korea
First, to all my family, friends and readers not in Boulder County: please send any thoughts and prayers you can spare to the areas in the northern front range of Colorado. While all my close friends are safe, many are facing tens of thousands of dollars of damage,...
by bbeckel | Sep 11, 2013 | Korea
We decided to have a little picnic on the beach one night after school. We got a recommendation on where to go, and I packed up the traditional Korean picnic food – kimbap. Kimbap (or Gimbap, depending on how you anglicize the Korean characters) is just the...
by bbeckel | Sep 10, 2013 | Korea, Recipes
So I’ve been watching Korean cooking YouTube instructionals during the day. There are a few I really like – a mom who sends her daughters recipes so they can carry on their heritage, the young Korean-American mom who’s son runs around in the...
by bbeckel | Sep 9, 2013 | Korea
We’ve spent a couple nights in the last week trying some of the local cuisine with some of the other teachers. Both were different than expected, and we’re trying to learn to stop expecting, and just experience! On Wednesday night, we told another teaching...
by bbeckel | Sep 5, 2013 | Korea
Date envelope #2 gave us a map and some cash to help us get to one of the many Jeju Olle trails – a major network of more than 20 individual routes connected back-to-back to completely circle the island. We’re hoping to get through all the trails before we...
