Today was our last full day of exploring Seoul, so we headed out after breakfast to find the Bukchon Traditional Korean Village. When the taxi dropped us off, it turned out that the village wasn't much at all, just stores and homes that didn't seem much different than others we have seen. On top of that, what was there was closed, perhaps because it was a Monday. Monday seems to be the day that many things are closed in Korea, but the guidebooks hadn't mentioned ...

It was back to our early morning routine again, with a wake-up call at 5:15 AM so that we could be out of the hotel by 6:15 and on our way to Jeju Airport. Out flight back to Seoul was for 8:30, but when we got to the airport they said they had room on the 7:30 flight and wondered if we would like to take that one instead. Since it would save us an hour of waiting in the airport, we said, "Sure" and hustled down to get on board. We got back to Seoul and headed ...

We had to get up early this morning (5:30 am) to catch the shuttle to the airport for our flight to Seoul. Neither of us can believe our time in Japan is over, but we are looking forward to Korea and meeting up with Christine's mom, as well as Rick & Jessica. The flight was on time and after clearing South Korean immigration and customs we got in our pre-arranged taxi (the first time I've ever had someone waiting for me at the arrival gate with my name on a...