Weekends Away and the Art of Sleeping

This weekend I took a fantastic trip with some friends to the Southern part of South Korea.  We climbed a mountain and went to a beach.

This was my first time to join a group travel/hiking trip in Korea.  I usually shy away from the group thing because you might just get stuck with some idiots.  Well, lucky me, it turned out to be a pretty decent group!

We left at midnight on Friday night and drove through the night for a sunrise hike.  I'm not a huge fan of sunrises... they've usually proved a big disappointing (its dark and then its light).  The weather was wet. Raining. Cloudy.  BUT- we did it.  We hiked to the "cloud" bridge, especially named for a day like the one we were having.  Every now and then we got a glimpse of the view through an opening.

After the hike we drove to Mokpo.  It was still raining.  I hadn't slept for 36 hours (or so) and I was TIRED.  But they had to kill time because the road we would have to travel would be under water until 6pm when the tide went out.

So I got a coffee and took a walk with my friends... in the rain.

We traveled to our pension and just had to wait a little while for the water to recede.  I was still tired.  But managed to set up the tent on the rooftop.  Forced to stay up to grill burgers, eat and then of course drink.  I finally left our rousing "game of death" at about 10 pm and crashed in the tent.  It was a fantastic sleep.

Turns out we had the perfect set up with our tent... I woke up once again for sunrise and it was beautiful... but I could only hold one eye open for about 10 seconds before I fell into a slumber again.

The next day we went to the beach and I got burned.  I'm not so good at even application of sunscreen.  Today my nose is peeling.

In the end, I'm glad coffee still has the desired effect, though last night I had a coffee at 5pm and the effect was finally falling asleep at 3AM.

There are more adventures to speak of, but if you really want to know, then you'll just have to ask.