#144 Stranded at night on Jeju Island, Korea

Transcript

Alright, this is a rare two-parter episode of this podcast, so last episode, I did, you know, got a little further on my circumnavigation of Jeju and had some adventures and some stuff happened, you know, see last episode for details, was already a pretty interesting day, a lot more stuff happened than usual. But then, I ran into this sudden problem, getting home, in that I couldn't get home, that, uh, yeah, I found out the bus stops. A lot sooner than I thought it did, and I got a bit stranded, not a bit stranded, super stranded, you suddenly realize, like, what am I supposed to do now? Whoops, uh, this has gone wrong. Anyway, that's the story of this episode, so this technically ties in with last episode, it's all one big long day, but it's such a long day, it felt like two days easily, so, so I've split this episode in half, this is part two, but if you want the full story, check out last episode, but to recap, I went and had a nice adventure filled day on Jeju Island, and then I hopped on the bus to get home, and I thought everything was hunky-dory, and it wasn't, so let's take it from there.

I was learning stuff, stuff I didn't want to learn, stuff I didn't want to have to, uh, adventures I didn't want to have to have. So unfortunately, I'm learning that the buses stop very fucking early, this is not what I expected, considering there's only buses, like buses are the only way to get around on Jeju, I mean, in the sense that there's no, uh, subways or anything, I guess there's taxis, maybe I'll figure out how that works, I don't know. You know, hey, you're on the bus, right? You're good, if you're on the bus, you made it. Things will be okay, but the bus stops at around 10 o'clock, and if you're on the bus, it just stops at, uh, Cian Sun, the, uh, the big, cool mountain, with the crater on top, which is, uh, is that even, not even halfway, this fucking sucks so hard. Oh man, I saw the little stupid line. On the Google bus map, and I was like, what the hell is that? How come that bus doesn't go all the way? What is happening? And indeed, when I got there, everybody got off the bus, and that was the end of it.

I was thinking maybe I should have taken it all the way to Cian Sun, because that is probably the best place. That probably would have been a good idea, because I bet there was cabs and stuff there. But instead, I got off where the turn is, because that's where the last guy got off the bus, let's get off with him, and just go check, you know, the other bus stops, so a little further down the line, and they'll just say, no bus information available next bus tomorrow morning, it's 6 a.m. A mere eight hours from now, this is far too fucking early for the buses to stop. This sucks. I don't know how time got away from me so easily, like, you know, if the sun was up, and the sun went down, as I was on my way to Burger King, it was pretty much dark by the time I went over to die, so. Okay, there's a cab going by the other way. It does have a green light on the top, pretty visible, pretty easy to tell that it's a cab, so that's good.

Because I'm also walking down this stretch of highway, where there's no fucking lights. There's some ahead of me, thank God, but it's dark as fuck right now, so it's fucking creepy.

So I was like, well, shit, well, shit. A lot of times when stuff like this happens, you know, I just suck it up, and I'm like, well, time for a weird adventure, guess I'm just walking home. In my squeaking shoe ever since I could cotton the rain, my shoe's been squeaking if I walk on it wrong, and that's very fucking annoying right now. I am not patient enough for you squeaking shoe, fuck you.

Yeah, no, I'd normally just suck it up and just walk, but I mean, I don't know exactly how far this is, but from Ciancent to Seguapo, if it was even like three hours, I'd be like, yeah, well, that's kind of fucked, but maybe I'll do it. Maybe I'll just walk, but I'm quite sure it's more than that. It's a really long walk. This is not, I don't think that's a realistic plan.

And yeah, I got to another bus stop with another random bus. I was like, I don't know, I could just take this, whatever this is, but no, it's also shut down. I did see the red bus. I think it's the 101. I'm not sure if that's the exact one that I took. And I think I took the 801 from the airport. Anyway, one of those like airport shuttle buses was still going. So maybe those go later into the night, but I have no idea where to catch them or where they go. Yeah, maybe I should have just turned around and gone back up to Ciancent where at least, you know, it's all touristy and shit, there'd be stuff there. 5:00 Because yeah, instead, I'm walking just down the highway and, you know, I guess I'm just waiting for something to happen. I'm waiting for either an internet signal to pop up so I can go on neighbor maps and just see what they have to offer me. If there's any alternatives, any other buses I can catch or anything I can do from here. And failing that, I guess, try to find a cab on the plus side. I got like 30 bucks, 35 bucks in my wallet. And I've heard that taxis are pretty cheap in South Korea, like they're famously expensive in Japan. And of course, they're in nightmare in North America.

But I suspect it won't be that bad. If I could catch a cab, the ride from here to say, well, probably won't be any kind of a big deal. Even if it is, I don't care. I'll pay it for the one time that I fucked up. As long as it's not more than $35 somehow. But I got the T-Money card too. I don't know. Maybe they take that. I have no idea. But yeah, it's just like, I'm still even though the sun's down. It's still so hot and I'm still all sweating and just blowing. It's like, dude, the day was supposed to be over. I was on the way home. And I got unceremoniously fucking abandoned. This fucking sucks. So far away. Not even close to back.

As a board of shit. Yeah, I had no idea. I really didn't expect things to end this soon. So I think the lesson is because, yeah, like I said, even if you get on the bus, it doesn't matter. The bus doesn't go all the way to the end. That's the heart that really sucks. I'm going to have to be very careful to bail out of these adventures earlier. No more Burger King adventures. It was fine, by the way. The avocado bacon burger. It was pretty good.

But yeah, if I had realized, I certainly wouldn't have done on my little burger eating and Daiso shopping on the other end. If I knew I was going to get stranded. I wonder, like I'm not even sure because it's such a long ride. And I got to at least get past the unsan well before 10 o'clock, I guess, just to actually get on the bus that goes all the way back to Seguapo. I don't know. I don't know when that final bus is. I guess I'll have to try to figure it out. Anyway, this fucking blows. This is not what I expected to happen. I thought when I was on the bus, I was safe. I thought I was just going to be a long annoying ride.

There is currently no bus arrival information. And yeah, no Wi-Fi. Man, sometimes you get lucky. Sometimes you get very lucky with the Wi-Fi around Jeju. But not now, I am fucked in the face. And yeah, I don't even know when's the next thing that counts as civilization even coming. I don't see anything on the map. I mean, I remember walking these stretches at least now I'm on the real road. I'm not down by the shore. But there wasn't much going on down by the shore. You know, it was all very small stuff. I kind of feel like my best chance is if I happen to pass a convenience store. Maybe I'll pass one that has a cab in the parking lot maybe. Or like I said, I saw that one cab go by the other way. If I keep constantly looking behind me. Maybe I'll see a cab coming my way. I don't know. I don't have a good out here. This sucks. Oh, there was a cab that went by that was not lit up. Like the top was not lit up. So okay, there's some cabs with nice glowing green signs. And then there's some cabs that are stealth cabs that are harder to tell. Anyway, I'm sure to all work out. And like I said, if I just had to suck it up and walk, I would. But yeah, dude, I mean, I'm looking at my dot. I'm basically, I mean, I'm on the eastern border of Jeju.

I got to get down to the center of the southern side. It's like so fucking far. I have a feeling if I walked to this, it would be a race to see what would happen first. Would I get back? Or would the fucking 6 a.m. bus start running again? Fuck me. Fuck me. Because yeah, that kind of sucks too is that, you know, I've been in this situation many a time in different cities like, you know, like Montreal. Stay up real late. I stayed up with my friend Brad when I would just stayed up super late, drinking in a park. And there's a bus going the other way. So yeah, what is this? What is this bus? Yeah, the 101. So whatever the 101 is, it seems to still be going. And there's people in it. That seems very promising. If I can figure out where the 101 stops, maybe I'll be alright. Maybe I can take that shuttle. But yeah, we stayed up on night in Montreal talking and then so long that the sun was coming up. And as I was walking home, I noticed, hey, look at that. One of the metro stations is open. And I got to go take the metro super early in the morning. 10:00 I feel like I've had situations like that in New York also, but the difference is those are those times when, you know, you stay after hours at a bar or something and it's ludicrously late. You know, it's four or five a.m. And then you can bridge the gap into the next day. And it's not that big a deal. I'd go so far as to call this early. It's quarter after 10 at night. It is not late. I'm not tired. It doesn't feel late. How the fuck are all the buses stopped? This sucks. Shit.

I was reading all this stuff about how they streamline the buses to make it easier for tourists. And they kept, they even reduced the price, I think I read. And they added new routes and the color coded to make things simpler and blah, blah, blah. Well, you sort of forgot one of the most important parts. You have to actually run buses, dude. What the fuck? Like, maybe you don't want to run them every 20 minutes like they have been all day, but you need a bus to run much later than this. At least a couple of hours later. You should be going to midnight minimum, even if it's like every 40 minutes, every hour even. They can be very infrequent. But what the fuck, dude? You cannot just abandon people. This fucking sucks. This sucks. I had no fucking idea this was going to happen. This does not feel natural. This is not what's supposed to happen.

All these buses are going against the direction. Here comes another one. Maybe the the 101 going clockwise is on a different road.

Oh no, that was a 201. Completely empty. Just going back to the depot. Wonderful. A couple of motorcycles went by me and a guy in a four wheeler just went by. I guess that's where I could have a super adventure, a far cry adventure. Hey, give me a ride. Let me hop on the back.

Yeah, I'm thinking maybe too like Toronto, like when the subways stop running, then they run the blue line, which sucks. You know, it's crowded and packed and slow and miserable and full of drunk people. But at least it's just a bus that runs every once in a blue moon throughout the night just to get you the fuck home if you have to get home. This is the first time I feel like I've been legitimately disappointed in Jeju Island. This is way too early to stop the buses. And yeah, they just fucking stop. I mean, they stop so fucking fast that that that's the part that really gets my my goat. As I was on the fucking bus, you just stopped the bus halfway through the route. That's not supposed to happen. You fucking dicks. And yeah, it's annoying too, just that whatever the 101 is, this seems like as I'm triangulating stuff and trying to piece together what's going on, it's like, all right, that 101 bus, that seems like that's probably my most likely escape. It seems to still be running, which makes sense, I guess, if it's a fucking airport shuttle going to hotels and stuff, it needs to actually run. It can't just fucking stop at 10 o'clock, like these bourgeois buses.

But now there's no Wi-Fi, not a stitch of Wi-Fi.

Freak. And it's creepy too, walking down this highway. There's just sections where they're just like, there's just no lights. I would say they were just burned out, but it's way too long of a stretch with no lights. It's like, no, I think it's just deliberately no lights. It's creepy.

Anyway, I'm sure something to work out, it always does. If I did have to walk eight goddamn hours to get home, I could, but surely I'll figure out how to find some kind of shuttle or a taxi. Yeah, hmm, I should have stopped at Cian Zan, that's for sure.

Because I have no idea where the next dollop of civilization is, but it's not clear. One thing that's nice, I mean, there's like a bus stop coming up that I'm sure will just tell me to fuck off, but it's nice that even the little digital screens, at least they do just say like, sorry, no more buses. You know, at least you're not going to get stuck just waiting, because I've had that experience too in Vancouver. I remember I was waiting for a bus once at night and a cop stopped by and just said like, hey, you guys are the few of us waiting. This bus ain't coming. There's no more buses here tonight. Everyone's just like, what? How man? But it was nice of him to let us know. But anyway, yeah, imagine Stephen King's the mist. You know, I'm just walking into the darkness. Like there's some stop lights in front of me that are, you know, not that misty, but a bit, because it's still just kind of been so hot today. There's just a weird sort of humidity in the air. So everything's a little fuzzy. And yeah, like there's these red lights, there's some more red lights further down the street, almost no street lights. 15:00 Like there's some very intermittent, super dark out. But then across the street, there's somebody on their bicycle. Like it's not late. It's 10 o'clock in the summer. This doesn't feel late.

So it's not like creepy in that way. It doesn't feel like the dead of night. It does feel like there's activity and there's people around. It's just no buses. This, this blows zero out of 10, J.J., you big thumbs down. Not cool, man. Not fucking cool.

Anyway, I'll fucking endeavor to never let this happen again. But it's an unfortunate lesson to have to learn when you're this far away from home.

Very fucking unfortunate. Anyway, like I said, I'll just keep going. Something will work out. Something will come together. And yeah, it's a nice that I'm not super exhausted.

I'm not all worn out, you know, I feel fine. This is just too far to walk. So something is going to need to come together at some point.

Wow. Is that like cicadas fighting against frogs? That is some, that is some fucking nature activity.

No, maybe those don't really sound like cicadas. I think it's frogs versus frogs.

I've finally got to some Wi-Fi and, uh, man, Naver Maps is so annoying. I thought like, uh, you know, this could be its time to be handy to give me an alternate route. But yeah, their idea of setting it to English, I've said this before, but it's not fucking English, guys, it's not English. I can't tell what the fuck you're trying to tell me here. Anyway, it wasn't very helpful.

I said, Sagwapo is 39 kilometers away. So I was just thinking, like, some of those early walks I did from Sang and Jaya. I was like, I think that was about 12k, right? That was the Longish Walk, but that's not so crazy. Then if you double that, it's like, well, for being stranded. I mean, that's a long walk. But, you know, I guess, tripling that, that's where it's like, yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I sure hope it doesn't come to that. But I'm actually not sure. I don't know how long it takes to walk 39 kilometers. Do I still have Wi-Fi? I had it for a second. Let's see if it's maintained.

A slow normal walking speed is about three kilometers an hour. Oh, that's not good.

13 hours. And I mean, so yeah, let's say I pick up the pace a bit, you know, it's like 10. So yeah, that just can't happen. That's stupid.

See, it's very not easy to just, uh, in Naver or Google to just be like, just tell me where to just give me options, man. I get that the 201 is closed. Stop telling me about the 201. You're not helping. How about something else? So down the street, away is Sinsan bus transfer. I don't know how far this is. It's not closed. It's going to take me a while.

But that seems to be where this 101 shuttle goes, although I'm very, very un, uh, unconfident that it'll still be going either. It seems like it stops relatively soon if, if these schedules are to be believed, and then it doesn't start again until like 7.30 in the morning.

So that's the plan. I'm going to go to the bus transfer and see if I can transfer, but I'm expecting not. However, that's where, you know, I can at least just hang out there. Surely to fuck if there's like a nice cab to be found just with, you know, just by, that's idling. This just waiting to pick someone up. Surely the bus transfer. I mean, I can't imagine how going farther than the bus transfer will do me any good. It'll just be another one of these weird stretches of nothingness. But anyway, there's my, uh, the tears of my plan. Walk to the bus transfer.

Keep my eyes peeled in case I can happen to nab a taxi on my way there. And if not, you know, just figure it out from there. Surely I can get a cab or something. But basically, I think that bus transfer, for all intents and purposes, that's my home. That's where I'm going to be.

If for some reason I just cannot get anything going, I'll just literally hang out there until the morning. But I'm not going to keep walking. There's just no point. It's too far. 20:00 But yeah, from there, from that home base. Surely I can piece together a plan. It's got to be a better location for piecing together a plan than this. And there's a walking down the nightmare highway.

So yeah, there is that at least my very first inclination of when I realized on the bus that something was going terribly wrong in my little bus line, only stopped partway. That first inclination I had, like, I should ride it all the way to see onsen and figure out what to do from there. Big time I should have done that. Oops. But anyway, walking to the next bus transfer thingy. And then we will see. Oh, there's a spooky dog. A spooky dog bidding me, bidding me a good evening.

Well, I met an area. It's always ups and downs, where things are way better lit. So that's nice. But I think partially why they're better lit is because they're doing road work here. They're tearing up sewer lines and it smells like poop. But at least there's lights. So when cars come, I can actually tell usually if they're, I can see the little taxi thing on the roof from a distance. Because there's enough light to actually illuminate them. But no one has stopped. I think, I mean, that makes sense, right? Why would an empty cab be going down this fucking stretch of the last highway? They'd only be coming down here if they were taken somewhere somewhere. They're certainly not expecting to pick anybody up, you know? Any sense of activity is long gone at this point.

Time is it anyway. Yeah, I mean, now it's past 11, so it's, you know, it's getting into actual night time now. And yeah, I'm just for sure in the middle of nowhere.

And I got a ways to go. I'm like, uh, two-thirds of the way to this fucking bus transfer, deep out whatever the fuck. But it is funny just, uh, oh, I recognize this guy. The, uh, warning sign that there's construction coming. It's like a little scarecrow, but the little scarecrow is a construction man with a little construction hat. And there's, uh, a warning sign next to him that looks like, uh, four light sabers. That, you know, go up and down, up and down.

Judging out from his arm. But yeah, I noticed him several times when the bus has gone by. It's like, oh, there you are, buddy. There's you. I've seen you before.

But it is funny how fast like your brain can kind of rework stuff. You know, it's best not to, uh, not to dwell. Because when I do think about the fact that the bus has stopped so early, I can't help but be annoyed. So, hey, just don't think about it, because it doesn't matter. You can't do anything about it. You can't change it. I can't feel good about it, but I can just not think about it. That's not that hard to do. In fact, that becomes easier and easier as you get older to just be like, what ever? Well, at least it does for me. I don't know. I guess there's some people that become real cranks when they get old. Maybe it's harder for them, but I'm just like, oh, well, what ever. Just don't give it any thought.

And then I just start re re working things, re wiring expectations. Whereas like, oh, you know, what if? What if? Like, what is the worst thing that could happen? Which is just to hang out by the fucking bus stop. You know, maybe there's a convenience store there. I could chill out in there for a little bit. Just hang out on, I did bring, luckily, but noticing lately that my phones have been getting dangerously close to running out of batteries. So, I had a little portable battery that I just haven't been bringing with me. I just put it back in my gear this morning. And it's charging my phone right now. It's like, ah, good timing.

And yeah, it's so fucking hot out.

Like, I've got my, ah, my weather resistant coat, but I am still sweating to death. Like, I cannot imagine it's going to actually get cold at any point tonight. I think this is going to be one of those things of like, hey, don't, uh, don't expect nighttime to save you from the heat wave because it won't and you'll die. You know, one of those types of nights. I think if I literally just sit on the curve all night, it'll be temperate. It won't be that bad. And wait until 6.30 in the morning or 6 in the morning for the bus to start running. I mean, that sucks, but it's already 11. It's going to be like, nearing midnight by the time I get to this fucking place. Maybe I'll even walk like another batch. If I do just decide like this night is 25:00 fucked. Maybe I'll just walk to the next bus depot thing, eat up another two or three hours, listen to some podcast. Like, I didn't know. But I bet the time will go by faster than I think, because this is like a bad thing that became a good thing is I could not sleep to save my life last night. But yeah, I couldn't fall asleep last night like at all. It was really having a hard time. The sun was coming up. I didn't go to bed till about 5.30 in the morning. But the good thing about that is I slept in a lot and that's kind of why it took me. I mean, I didn't get going today till it was at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. I've decided too. Like, I'm just going to have to make sure I get on the bus back by 8 o'clock. I don't know for sure when the last bus is you can catch that won't get stopped at Cian San. But I'm aiming for eight. Let's just not ever let this happen again. No, don't even risk it. 8 p.m. That's fine. It'll be dark by then. No need to be dicking around on the other end of this adventure in the dark. I can do my dicking around in the dark back in Seiguipo. So it should be no problem. Now that I know, so that's the only problem. I just didn't know. Now that I know this is easy to circumvent, it's not going to happen twice. It'll be fine. But yeah, even if tonight, if I just end up staying up all night, like, there's an extremely good chance that I would anyway. Like, I'd be back at the hotel and I'd be dicking around on the computer till 2 or 3 in the morning and then I'd try to fall asleep and it wouldn't work and then it'd be 5 or 6 in the morning and then I would finally go to sleep, you know. That's probably what's in my future because that's what happened yesterday. I'm on a kind of backward upside down sleep schedule anyway and it's been slipping lately. It's been pretty bad. So yeah, you just kind of got to recalibrate your surroundings. Like, again, this would be so terrible if I was exhausted right now. It would be the worst. But yeah, what's the difference, man? Like, what is the big difference between sitting in the hotel room on my fucking computer till 5 in the morning or just sitting on a fucking street corner out here on my phone instead? Who the fuck gives this shit? It's the same goddamn shit. Who the fuck cares? And the reality is, like, I'm going to remember this, you know? Like, that's one thing I've always had, like, the rose colored glasses, you know? Like, it's very easy to look at things in hindsight and be like, oh, that was nice. And I think I'm getting a little better at being able to recognize that at the time. I mean, I think you could tell from those last couple segments. I was a little perturbed. But even already, I'm thinking like, yeah, but this, this stands out, you know? Like, this isn't bad. It's not cold. I'm not that tired. It's just basically quiet. I'm past the construction now. It doesn't smell like poop anymore. I'm on this beautiful street. This highway kind of sucks in the day, but this time and I'd, it's very quiet. There's hardly any traffic. I'm back to a point where there's actual street lights. So that's nice. I'm just walking along. I can hear a little cicadas in the distance. If anything, there could be an upside because, yeah, like, the only time I've ever had a problem with mosquitoes is inside my hotel room. It's so fucking weird. It makes no sense. I've just had no problems with mosquitoes outside. Nothing right now. Not even a hint of insect trouble. There's a good chance I would get back to my hotel room and then just be slowly driven mad by the one mosquito that's buzzing around it. When I finally get them, realize there was actually three and just like, oh, that's like a legitimate issue. Yeah, I'm going to remember this dude. Like, I'm going to remember this view. Just this, this lonely quiet street that is like a four lane highway, the fairly major highway, the 201 route around Jeju. But this time of night, it's just quiet. It's beautiful. Like, if only I was a little closer, you know, if only it was realistic to walk home from here, I would just do it. But I've only got a little under seven hours before the buses start again. And that's just, that's so insane, but that's not enough. That's not enough time. Like, I'll walk, I'll just walk till the buses start again. I don't know that there's any fucking point to doing that. Yeah, and again, you know, I'm a prepared person. I'm sure there's ways you could telephone for a cab. Maybe there's websites and stuff where you can, I just have never used a cab ever outside of North America. Even in North America, it's relatively rare. Like, even if I get a Wi-Fi signal, I don't know. I don't know how to call a cab. I wonder if a neighbor does that. Can you call cabs through a neighbor? You know, something I can experiment with. I'm sure they'll be Wi-Fi when I get to the bus terminal. How's that going, by the way? What do we got here? Yeah, nope, I'm not close. I'm not close. Fuck, that shit's far away.

But yeah, the reality is, it's pretty nice. I'm going to think back finally on this stupid night.

And yeah, it really helps to put stuff in context like, oh no, I'm going to be up till six in the morning waiting for a bus if I don't find a cab or something. You're just like, yes, so what?

Otherwise, I'd just be back at the hotel. I got like a fucking episode of WWE Smackdown and AEW Rampage that were on TV a couple nights ago that I haven't watched yet. I would just put those on on my fucking computer and edit something, just do some dumb shit. It's like whatever, whatever dude. It don't matter. It don't matter none. It's only a big deal if you make it a big deal. And I mean, if it never feels like a big deal. If you get stranded halfway across an island in a foreign country and it doesn't feel like a big deal from the get-go, maybe you're dangerously cool. I don't know that that's great. Great way to handle things.

That's too cool. I think it's all right to be a little fucking perturbed at first. Feel a little stress grinding in your bones. Yeah, nothing about here walking. Fuck it. It's going to be a good memory.

So another street sign showed up. Saegwapau, 36 km. It was 39 last time. It's like, oh no. That number barely changed. But welcome for a while. That number did not go down very much. I'm trying to remember how far when I was in Western Tokyo. I remember I would see signs sometimes, you know, way up by Hyjima, Sea Highway signs for, you know, heading back to Shinjuku or whatever. And I believe it was a similar distance. It might have been more, actually. I think about it, maybe it was like 50. I don't know. But yeah, one of these cases where it's like, no, no. That's just, that's not for you, foot man, walking guy. That's not going to happen. And then Pyoseon, P-Y-O-S-E-O-N. That's only nine kilometers. Whatever Pyoseon is, I could get there. Again, like I said, probably I think whatever the bus transfer is, that's probably good enough. But I guess if I need somewhere to keep walking just to keep myself busy, that's my secondary plan. That's doable. That's still far. But I could do that. Because yeah, I feel fine about staying up all night, but not about walking all night. That's a different story. I can feel. That's another thing. Just don't think about it. Because if I think about it, it's like, oh yeah, actually my legs are kind of sore and this, that, and the other thing. The, I had a giant blister that is basically starting to harden up, but it's, I am noticing it. I'm like, oh, I did buy some more band-aids. Maybe I should stop and put a band-aid on that bad boy. Basically, yeah, walking all night. That's a different story. I can hang out all night. I can't fucking walk all night. Anyway, when I was looking at the map, I did also see Chicken Point, which in a previous episode, a couple episodes, I stopped at Chicken Point. So there's a, that's where the, the saddle point was between two of these episodes was Chicken Point. But nothing about this looks like Chicken Point. Because yeah, that is one thing that's weird is I am technically passing all this stuff that I've already done, but I did it down by the shore. The beautiful shore, which this time of day would be pitch black and terrifying. Up here on the road, yeah, I mean, it's just road. It's just the endless road. The road that never ends. I would never, I could walk up and down this stretch a hundred times. I would never realize that I was walking past Chicken Point if I didn't see it on a map. But I don't know. It's just kind of funny. So yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, technically, I'm backtracking. I'm going back on all the stuff that I've done. It's just this is the, this is the super boring version of the walk. You know, again, nice in its way, nice in a, for dead of night, nice little night time, a weird walk. But in the day, yeah, this would suck. If I did circumnavigate, I guess I was saying before, like, if it weren't for all the nice arrows guiding you along the shore, a lot more of this walk would probably be this just walking on this street. And yeah, I don't think I would do that. I wouldn't walk on a highway for 200 kilometers to go around an island. Yeah, this is not the Chicken Point I remember. It's over there somewhere in the hazy mist of the distance. But I mean, there was nothing there anyway. Chicken fucking point. That was that. It was just, it was just a relatively nice, pretty looking area of seaside with a chicken statue, a brass chicken statue. What is this sign? This is a sign for something coming up in 37 and a half kilometers, i.e. Segwapo. And this is 35:00 so annoying. If you're connected to the internet, and then you lose connection, which is what just happened here, then Google Translate just gets hung up. It's like, I can't find the internet. How can I translate this without the internet? It's like, dude, I pre-downloaded the career thing. You don't need the fucking internet. You got to close the fucking Google lens, turn off the internet. And it still doesn't work. I should just cut all that about this sign, because it didn't work. Who knows what it says, who cares, whatever. Yeah, no internet connection. Yeah, no shit. I don't need the internet. You stupid fuck fucking annoying piece of shit. Okay, yeah, cut all that. Anyway, just thought I'd mention about Chicken Point. That's all. Bye. Back to the walk.

Man, is that fucking wild or what? I'm just walking by like a farm or something. And I mean, what is that? Is that frogs? Isn't it crazy how loud that is? That reminds me of in Surrey, British Columbia, the city that's like two cities away from Vancouver, but it's all connected to the SkyTrain system. There's this park, the Surrey green space or some shit. I used to walk through it at night just to give myself a scale, just to freak myself out. Because even though it was right in the middle of the city, I mean, it felt remarkably like you were just in a horror movie when you went in there at night. You weren't supposed to go in at night, of course, but I cut through a few times and yeah, very, very frightening. But I noticed in there like frogs. I was like, God damn, how are these frogs this loud? When there's no other sound, I guess, to fight against them and they're all just going croaking away. Really fucking loud. But I don't think they were that loud. That's fucking loud, man. That reminds me, my Airbnb in Fukuoka in 2019 had super loud frogs outside the window that even with the doors closed and everything. It's hard to sleep through them sometimes. Asia's got some loud fucking frogs, man. I was also thinking because I've seen a couple more cabs go by with the lit up tops all going the other way. But I'm digging deep into my memory banks of like New York and stuff. If not real New York than just movies. Maybe is it that if they're lit up, it means they're available. I think maybe that's how it works. Maybe that's why some of them are lit up and some of them aren't. The lit up ones mean, hey, I'm available. Not lit up means I'm not available. I'm quite sure now. I've dug that up deep from my brain. Probably basic taxi info that everybody else knows. But I'm quite sure now that I think that. I think of that. I think like, yeah, I'm pretty sure that is how it works. So let's go with that assumption anyway. So if I do happen to see a cab coming at me who's lit up, it'll be a joyous day. But I haven't actually seen any coming my direction yet. And they're pretty rare anyway. So it's probably not going to happen.

But that's just a little something I thought of. And here's a 7-Eleven, but it is closed. Yeah, as a way, everything is 24 hours. Again, how the convenience store life, it's just supercharged in Japan. Not so much rent here. I mean, yeah, why would that be open? It would make no sense, but it is certainly not open. So there's a GS25 in the distance. I'm getting closer.

I'm getting closer. Oh, the time, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, getting closer to that bus transfer. Man, that's one thing I was thinking about, though, is that how I was saying when I was in Fukuoka earlier on in this podcast, the day that I walked to Ohori Park in Fukuoka, that I was listening a lot to the song we love you by Avenge 7 Fold and just how things fold into your brain, combined together. That I was like, I bet you dollars to donuts listening to this song is always going to make me think of walking across Fukuoka now. And it does. It's been a while now, and every time that song comes on, I'm like, yeah, yeah, you remember that? Remember that day? I don't even know if I mentioned it on the podcast, but I went to this park 40:00 and there was a broken skateboard in it. It took a picture of the broken, the fallen soldier. Somebody left their bust, it's busted in half skateboard. But what happened this time is right before we're just around the time, right, right around when I had this plan, when I hatched this plan to walk around Jeju, the band bring me the horizon put out their album Survival Horror Next Gen, the second in this Survival Horror series. And I don't like it as good as the first one. But you know, that's one of those bands that gets a very all over the place band. If you took all of my least favorite, bring me the horizon songs, I'd be like, whoa, I hate this band. What the heck, you know, like pick my like bottom 30 songs, I'd be like, this is the worst band I've ever heard, I fucking hate this band. But if you take the totality of their catalog, they're one of my favorite bands because like the stuff that I like is so fucking good. So yeah, that album, it's not like they're super duper best, but I basically just snipped out the two songs I like the least just so the flow could keep on flowing. And I've been listening to it a lot on this walk, pretty much every day. I listened to it at least once on this walk.

Yeah, I guess it didn't come out until I was a few days in because I'm thinking of the day. It was the rainy day. Yeah, that was the day. The day I walked out in all the super rain and uh, got fucked and ruined my boots. That was the first day that I listened through that album in total. But it's just cool because it's like such a clear connection that this is such a distinct journey that I'm on. Such a distinct little plan to walk all the way around the island. And it's not just a song. It's a whole album. So those two things combine so well. It's just walking by an empty useless bus stop as with a sudden change in sound quality. Yeah, it's just gonna be kind of neat because I know in the future whenever I listen to that album, it's guaranteed gonna make me think about walking around Jeju because the two things are just like happening concurrently. And just yeah, every day, every day I listen to it.

And every day that I'm walking around Jeju, it's on the playlist.

Definitely coming back into civilization. Yeah, this GS25 is actually open. Family coming out of it, hopping in the car. This is nice at least. At least I can hang out somewhere, even if I can't figure out a way out of here. At least I can hang out somewhere where there's actually stuff happening. Not just the middle of nowhere, but anyway, yeah, it's gonna be, it's gonna fit together well. Those two memories.

Because you got to taste now, drink the Kool-Aid by the jug.

So suffer your fate, I'll come here and give you a hug. Because nobody loves you like I love you, oh my dear. And you should have known that this was gonna end in tears.

Cool, I just had my suspicions confirmed in real time. A cab drove by my way without its light on. It banged a ui and dropped someone off on the other side of the highway. And then as soon as they got out, the light on top turned on. So that is indeed outworks. I do wonder sometimes if people listen to this podcast sometimes, and I have some stupid, obvious question that I don't understand, you know, in this case, maybe they'd be like, well, the lights, it's like whether the cab's free or not, stupid. So hopefully, and if you just hang on for 20 minutes, then I figure it out later on in the podcast. But yeah, I was like tempted. I mean, I would have had the problem is it's like, again, the four lane highway and it is the middle of the night, but there was a divider here. I would have had to hop across the street over the divider, but I was tempted to just be like, the second that guy led his previous people out, just be like, hey, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, right here. But I'm not that desperate yet. It's not even midnight yet. And you know, I'm piecing shit together. I'm slowly figuring out how cabs work and stuff.