Biking from Seoul to Busan

Well, the traveling duo has struck again and this time it is whirlwind bike tour of South Korea.
Well, perhaps it's not as much a 'whirlwind tour' of Korea as whirlwinds pretty much spiral around and go everywhere they want to. It's more like a straight shot alligator attack down to the Bayou. We are planning to take the next five days to go about 60 miles a day from Seoul to Busan!

This is us at about 11 pm tonite preparing for our bike trip with the bare minimums! This trip has me so excited that I've had a hard time getting to sleep at a decent hour this week. The information we found was on this site - http://user.chollian.net/~boonstra/korea/sebu.htm
check it out to see the route or plan your own trip. It seems the hardest part of the route will be on the last day nearing Busan where we climb from 250 to 700 meters in altitude in about 5 km. We have not been training extensively, but I anticipate the most difficult hurdles to be 1) humidity and 2) monsoon weather. Earlier in the week, it looked like tons of rain, but now just some scattered showers and perhaps some token lightening bolts. The total trip is about 500 kilometers (300 miles). We plan to ride about 100 km (60 miles) per day, so we can arrive back to Seoul via train. Then we will be left with a few days for rest and relaxation before our 24 hour a day 2-week summer camp.

This marks the slow revival the the 'Turbulent Twenties' blog, so
feel free to peruse it at your leisure. Perhaps the blog will be updated as the trip goes on
if there is availability of both energy and PC bangs (rooms) in some of the podunk towns
we hunker down in for the night.

We have decided that the best way to travel would be to take our craptastic sleeping bag
stuff sacks (fashioned and purchased for an overly hefty sum in the Thar Desert of India)
and fill it with ziplock bags full of short socks, undies, the most minuscule toiletries,
a plastic bag poncho, ipods, point n shoot cameras (not our new pricey slr tanks!), our maps,
and a few bottles of water. As Sally Gray once pointed out, the best travel buddy is a stash
of ziplock bags! This has become the most valuable piece of advice thus far especially
for India. I hope to return to Seoul after this trip as worn as I was after India - a warmed and worn heart as well as an exterior filthy as hell. What a grand feeling - it's like being a kid again.

Wish us luck! Hope you are well. <3