Train to Dongdaegu

Things may end up being a little bit out of order and delayed because of when we have access to internet and when Katie or I actually post. So here's a bit I wrote on the train from Seoul to Dongdaegu.

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Saturday morning, we're on a train to Dongdaegu where we'll catch another train to Gyeongju. It was quite the fiasco yesterday when we went to get our train tickets. We went up to the counter and said we wanted to go to Gyeongju (pronounced as best we could) on Saturday morning. We didn't really think about the fact that the trains would be pretty crowded on a weekend so it was a bit of an ordeal to find seats on a train in the morning. Anyway, we managed to find a train that was early enough but then realized that we had been given tickets to Jeonju. This was one of those times that I /really/ wished I spoke Korean. Most of our interactions with people that don't speak English have been doing simple things like buying food or items at a store - you can simply point at what you want, look at the number on the register and hand over the money. Scheduling a train trip is a different story. All in all it worked out fine and we ended up getting the tickets to where we needed to go (no thanks to our skills in Korean and all thanks to the KTX employee's skills in English).

Also, there are mountains everywhere in Korea. Everywhere. They make a beautiful backdrop to the various temples and traditional architecture. Very similar to what I envisioned Asia to be like and what you see in movies based in Asia. Here's a decent example of what I'm talking about: