Twy and Greg's Jeju Journey

 We had one of those days recently where learning opportunities were abound! We headed out late morning with the intent of making it to the second largest town on Jeju Island, Seogwipo, to go to an EMart. EMart, HomePlus, and Lotte are these big one stop places to get anything from food and home goods to clothes and electronics. Using Naver, Korea's equivalent of Google Maps, I figured out our walking/bus route to get there - a little over an hour. Greg and I headed out and took our first bus to where we needed to transfer. Our next bus was about 20 minutes out, so we decided to grab a snack. Greg noticed a shop that had these yummy red bean paste rolls. They are actually more like a donut filled with this slightly sweet paste and are tasty. Using Google Translate, we found these goodies on the menu board.  We let the man helping us know the man we just wanted one, then he proceeded to fill up a brown paper bag with six different types of Korean donuts.  We stopped him an...

 As I write this, we have officially been on Jeju Island for 24 hours! We left the US on July 17th at 8:20am after my mom and her partner dropped us off at 5:40am - thank you!! We were some of 'those' people travelling with lots of luggage. Our first 'stressor' was trying to just use the outside bag check so we wouldn't have to go to far with all of our stuff.  (Why don't US airports have more luggage carts. They are always available everywhere else we travel around the world.) The staff person let us know we should have some form filled out which we had not heard of. Frantically we tried finding this form and filling it our online, The website was located in South Korea and kept crashing. Finally, we decided to lug everything inside and see if we could be helped there. Guess what? There was no form needed and we breezed through. Greg has a new policy, "If something seems to hard, stop and ask someone else first." The other 'stressor' at DIA wa...