Joe and I went on a Tour of the DMZ today. For those of you that don’t know what the DMZ is, it’s the Demilitarized Zone that lies on the border of North and South Korea. The Travel and Tickets office on base runs tours there a few times a month. We left at 7… Continue reading DMZ (Image Heavy)
I’m back from Tokyo although a 16 hour night sleep was in order… Jayme and I had an awesome time and it was way too short. I was definitely not ready to come back to stinky Korea. We stayed in Fussa, a little town outside Tokyo, where Yokota AB is located. Fussa is very cute,… Continue reading Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto! (Image heavy post)
Well, it looks like Joe and I are not going to Jeju next weekend. It’s 1 AM here and I finally got off the phone with Expedia for the 3rd time. My realization that this trip was not going to happen were brought on by a list of frustrating events: 1) After realizing the ferry… Continue reading Jeju Update…
Haircuts A little background info… I used to get my haircut only about twice a year, part of the reason was the fact that I was always trying to let it grow and then when I moved to NYC I couldn’t afford or rationalize paying $100 for a shampoo, cut and blowdry unless I had… Continue reading The most random post in the history of Joes Melans…
Also known as “Asian Dust”, “Yellow Sand” and “Korean Smog”, this phenomenon makes living in Korea very hard sometimes. Wikipedia has the most understandable definition of Asian Dust that I have found thus far. We have a Yellow Sand Advisory meter on the Osan Air Base website. There isn’t a whole lot of info on… Continue reading Yellow Dust
So Monica came to visit this past weekend. She was in Asia for work and decided to take a detour and come visit her college partner-in crime. We had a great time and I loved showing her my new country. You’ll have to forgive the short postings, I am still trying to recover from lack… Continue reading Monica was here…
* We left our camera at Camp Humprheys over the weekend so pics will follow in a later post.* We had off this past Friday in preparation for the Lunar New Year or Seollal as the Koreans call it. So on Friday Ally and I went to Suwon to do some shopping and walking around. … Continue reading Seollal in Seoul
Newlywed Nomads 