#145 Finally journeying to Jeju City, South Korea

Transcript

Man, this shirt does seem different. I'm back at the scene of the crime. I'm on the street I was walking down last episode when I was just walking through the night. I'm at the point where I saw the ocean. It's like, oh, I can see the water from here. Now it's like three in the afternoon. So I can obviously see the ocean now, too. But yeah, it's just sort of blue. There's a bit of cloud cover that's gone over, which is nice because it was crazy hot earlier today. So this is a little better. It's a little bit of construction going on.

This street seems a lot smaller in the daytime. And there's an occasional burst of traffic, but like even right now, it's pretty empty. And here's the little lane. All right, so, I have someone with a backhoe right across from here. Definitely a different vibe. Yeah, look, I'm just walking right past where I, where I peed to the other day, a couple days ago.

In those bushes. So yeah, what happened is last episode, I got stranded because I didn't know the buses stopped so early on Segwapo, specifically. I mean, it's probably all the buses, but the 201 that goes around the outside edge.

It kicks you out around 10 o'clock. And what really fucked me is I thought, like, yeah, well, you know, I'm on the bus. That's okay. Might be one of the last buses, but I made it. But there's a split point midway at Sionsen, the big cool caldera, whatever they call it, the sunrise rock or whatever.

Oh, are you kidding me? Oh, my God, I'm being hoisted on my own petard right now. So anyway, I was walking along and I stopped up there as I said to take a pee and I saw this little lane. And I was like, wow, this is beautiful.

It's all quiet and dark and it was like the middle of the night at that point. It's like at least two in the morning.

But there were little lights on this lane going down by this dry riverbed in these like little quaint houses. And I walked along it for a while till the lights finally stopped. And there was this this big field. And it was just pitch black. And I was like, well, I can't go any further on the map. It seems like I could keep going and I get to a highway eventually. But it was just, yeah, like completely dark.

But I thought like, man, this is so cool. This is so nice. I got to come back here in the daytime. I got to give this a shot. And then because that was up all night that night, trying to sleep on a stone bench by the beach and then fucking finally a cab came and got me home as the sun was coming up. So yeah, my next day I didn't feel too good. I was pretty fucked. And today I still feel kind of fucked not from the actual physical exertion. It was just because it fucked up my sleep schedule so bad.

I haven't had a good solid sleep since then. So it's like it's even hard to tell exactly. I mean, obviously I haven't had enough sleep, but it's hard to even add it up because I'm like, I don't know, I was waking asleep and waking asleep for the last couple of days. But whatever was like, alright, let's go do that today.

But what I'm seeing now that it's daytime is I've done a considerable amount of complaining about the the Ola trail that when the Ola trail takes you away from the coast. I'm just like, ah, fuck that. That's fucking annoying. I don't want to go down any of that stuff. And then I found this, you know, at the nighttime and I was saying like, wow, this is so cool. I found this magical place completely by accident. Like if I hadn't missed the bus and if I hadn't decided to walk to the next city center, which was a terrible plan. And if I hadn't stopped just at that point to take a pee, I never would have saw this place. And I remember rambling last time about like, yeah, this would be like one of my places, one of my places that's important to me just because I found it, you know, has relevance to me alone. But now that I'm back here in the day, guess what? Guess what's here? The fucking trail markers for the Ola trail. The Ola trail sends you down this way. It wasn't just me who's like, oh, that's a beautiful little place. Everybody knows it's a beautiful little place. The Ola trail sends you down this fucking route. I can't believe it. I mean, I'm still glad I'm here and glad to be doing this. But yeah, there's the trail markers. This is not a discovery at all. I didn't discover shit. Every single person who walks the Ola trail walks this way. Everybody, fuck it.

A lady just went by and a truck and gave me a nice nod. So I mean, I guess that's an upside. They're used to random people walking through their neighborhood because it's part of the trail. 5:00 But yeah, my special little guy, my special little place that's just for me. It's not special at all. It's part of the thing. It's part of the prescribed journey. I really didn't expect that. That fucking, that surprised me.

But hey, whatever, dude. That makes no difference of anything I should be happy. It should be happy that it's not just a random little strange discovery. Everybody gets to do this shit. Yeah, and even here we go. Here's the point where the final street light was. That was like, is the Ola trail going to send me off somewhere else? Nope. It just says, keep going ahead. This is what we're doing. But I guess any concern I had about just walking into the wild blue yonder, which again wasn't a big concern. It's early enough in the day. Sure, it would all work out fine. But yeah, there's none of that. This is part of the trail. That's fucking, that's pretty, that's pretty surprising. I did not expect that at all.

Bam, I'm really glad that the weather's not as terrible. It seems so hot today. And I actually lost my umbrella on that overnight walk. I know where it happened, too. So when I found the convenience store finally, and I bought a bunch of orange juice and popsicles, I had my own little plastic bag just so I reused my bags. Instead of getting a new one each time, but it was in the same zippered pocket as my umbrella. And I guess I forget to zipper it back up. Because when I got home, my umbrella was gone. So by the time I was hoboing it up by the beach, it's probably where it literally fell out.

But I took a side trip to Daiso today to get an umbrella, because I was thinking like even though using an umbrella to shade myself from the sun, it hasn't worked so far because by the seaside, it's just way too windy. I was thinking today might be the day. I didn't want to come out here without an umbrella because if I'm just walking down a country lane, it's not nearly as windy.

And it might save me from the sun. But yeah, right now it's actually not that bad. Nice haze in front of the sun. I'll take it.

Alright, now here we go. Here's the little moment of reckoning. So there is a little bridge that I didn't cross yesterday. The Ole trails telling me to cross the bridge. I guess I'll just see where it tells me to go from here. Because I kind of had my mindset on just going further into these fields. So if the Ole trails looping me back, maybe this is the time. Yeah, okay. The Ole trail though, it's taken me, because obviously it's got to eventually keep a person circling around. So okay, I'm not going to follow the Ole trail. I'm going to keep just keep heading on forward and just see what happens. Because I want to see this field. Yeah, I mean, I really walked quite a ways in the dark in the other day. Like a total fucking weirdo. I want to see what this shit looks like in the daytime. And I mean, it's just like a little paved road. It's a little one lane road. I don't think is that weird if I just keep walking along this. And remember the other day, this seemed so crazily flat that I couldn't see any mountains in the distance. But now that it's clearer out, I can see a smaller one off to my right and way in the distance just directly ahead of me.

That must be halicent and it's fucking huge. But yeah, in the dark I couldn't see any of this shit.

And then I guess those houses I saw, but there's a bunch of green houses in between me and the houses in the distance that I just couldn't see at all. Anyway, let me tell you for anyone who's curious where I actually am.

The bus stop is called Sinpun Rihadang, S-I-N-P-O-N-G-R-I, space H-A-D-O-N-G.

And then I just went a teeny bit north of there, hung a left, went west. And now I'm just walking down a country road. So yeah, I guess I've split off from the Ola trail, but I guess that's always an option. I could just go hook up to that. If I get all lost, I don't know what's going on. But I'm just going to keep walking forward, just keep walking west.

See, I'm pretty sure I suspect this is going to be it, just fields and greenhouses and farm stuff.

But that's fine. That's what I signed up for as a little butterfly flying by. I just wanted to see this in the day.

And here I am.

Yeah, while I was at Daiso, I picked up a bunch of snacks and a pair of socks. Grab a pair of socks every time I go.

But all right, I'm just going to walk and eat some Daiso snacks.

Well, I guess it's the Ola trail to the rescue. Yeah, definitely just, I mean, this is all right. It's not bad. But I think the theme of today, the feeling I'm feeling, is, yeah, like as shitty as it was to get stranded in the middle of the night. And to have to go through these weird bizarre circumstances, part of what made it so difficult was just how weird it feels. It's like you're in a different world. You're in the dark world now. Everything is dark. There's hardly any people around. Normal services just aren't happening. Buses are done, even just like convenience stores. Many of them are closed. Everything is just eerie and creepy. And that night in particular, it was like super hot still, but it was misty. And it was just like, it's like a dream in a weird way. It's like this is fucked up. But one of those things in hindsight, you know, very beautiful, memorable night. But yeah, like I was saying up by the road, I'm like, well, this doesn't look the same. And now that I'm out here at this farm, this also doesn't look the same. Because in the dark, it felt infinite. You know, staring up at the stars and looking out across this field, and not even being able to see mountains, everything just seems like infinite in the distance. And there's just like, whoa, what is going on? But it was just because I couldn't make out the edges of anything. You know, everything was in the dark. We're now that I'm here in the day. It's like, yeah, it's a farm. It's all right. But instead of feeling open and wide, it feels very enclosed. And just these little tiny narrow roads and just, I mean, it's a real packed-in farm. There's tons of farm stuff going on here. But I was like, yeah, well, that's fine though. You know, this was the adventure I picked for today. Let's just keep walking. But it'd be in a farm. It is a for real farm. It just started to smell like fertilizer, you know, like manure. Like really, quite strongly. Little Keith. Oh, you don't like poop smell. Like, no, sorry. I don't. But I was like, well, you know, I'll just keep walking. We'll get past this. And I just kept walking and walking and walking. And it didn't stop. And I was like, yeah, I mean, it's a farm. There's no guarantee it's going to stop. You know, I think that's just how farms are supposed to smell. And yeah, a lot of farms, you know, North America are big and wide open. But this one, it really is like packed-in. Like, there's a lot of space around me. It's this huge farm and it goes on and on until that highway. But within this space, it is still very packed-in. Every little bit is used for something.

And it feels pretty similar to the other day when I decided the Ola trail wasn't necessarily for me. A lot of that was not as distinctly farmland as this, but farmish, you know. And this doesn't feel that different. And yeah, it's not only is it not like striking, visually striking. It's kind of hard to see anything because it's so packed in. And I'm just kind of behind either behind greenhouses or behind a big hedge, behind a tree line. That sense of a big long field in the dark, in the daytime, nothing is like that. It doesn't look like that at all. It's all very packed in. It's like in an old video game when they would try to simulate being outside, but they couldn't make levels that big yet. So they had to make, you know, just like a small corridor that connects to another corridor. And they would dress it up to look like the outside. But the reality of it was no different than walking through a corridor of a building. Just instead of walls, it's like trees or, you know, the edge of this dry riverbed or a rock wall or whatever.

That's how this feels. Just walking through a very narrow thing. And again, I was thinking like, yeah, that's fine. I'll just do that.

But the manure smell is really strong. I was like, yeah, you know what? All right. I'm not walking through that. It would be completely my fault where there's the Nolay Trail set up. I'm the one who just made up this plan. It's already clear that this is not what I kind of was hoping it would be, or that the nighttime magic is just, you know, stay time now. It's the light world. It's not like that anymore. For me to deliberately walk for hours and hours, potentially a couple hours through manure smelling farmland, like why? Why the fuck would I do that? 15:00 So instead, I've backtracked. And here we are. Luckily, I didn't get lost. I actually found my way back to the Nolay Trail. There's the little ribbon. So yeah, I'm just going to follow the Nolay Trail. And then it'll eventually bring me back to the shoreline.

And that'll probably be it for today. Probably just go the fuck home. So yeah, let's just, you know, it was an attempt at an adventure. Not everything always works out all the time. I think this will be like the beginning. The abandoned mini adventure. And then we'll just pick up on a future day when I get back to the actual circumnavigation. Because I'm going to go back to the mountain that had the Japanese war caves and take the alternate route that goes up to the peak instead. Man, I was just like looking around on that because I didn't actually take any pictures of those caves. But I thought maybe I could just nab some from Google Images or whatever. And no such luck if you look for, like, there's just very little information about them. And even if you like, go zoom in on Google Maps, they're really not there. There's very scant references to those caves being there at all.

So those were kind of a legitimate find. That is quite a neat thing. That seems like it'd be really easy to miss. And again, in that case, I think I got kind of lucky. It was just because there were people milling around near, because there's just this little pathway, just this little path in the woods. It's just that people were milling around there next to a map. And I stopped to exchange illiterate pleasantries. And then I saw the little opening. And I was like, oh, I'm going to go through here. See you later.

I really could have missed them easy. But this particular adventure, hey, look at that solar panels. That's a good, good idea.

This particular adventure, it was the magic of the circumstances, those weird circumstances of being here in the middle of the night. And it's all misty and dark, but still warm out. Because that still blows my mind. That just doesn't happen in Canada. It can't be warm when it's dark out. It's impossible. That doesn't happen.

So it all felt like a cool dream. But in the daytime, you know, it's just a farm.

Pretty good farm, but not something that I should go out of my way to spend many hours trudging through the heat to experience. I'm experiencing it plenty. That's the feeling I get too. As I go deeper in, I don't think it's, I mean, who can say for sure, but I don't think it's going to change. I think it's just going to be more firm. So there we go. There was that attempted an adventure.

And there's the little Ole trail marker ahead of me. So yeah, I'm just going to follow that. I apologize, Ole trail. I apologize for talking shit. Talk shit, get shot. You're still here for me. Even after I disparaged you.

The Ole trail doesn't hold a grudge. The Ole trail. It's there for you.

All right, I'm obviously rambling at this point. So let's stop.

All right, it took a little stroll along the Ole trail for a while. And you know, it's not bad among some weird back streets and stuff. I think it would be a lot better in the winter. I could see that being a way better time.

To do these kind of protracted rambles because, yeah, this time of year. As I said before, it's like, man, imagine if I was by the shore right now, it would be all breezy in the heat of summer. That's way better. But you know, it was all right. It was kind of cool just walking around some random places. And I found one of those stamp books, which I thought was kind of funny. I guess I found a couple here and there, but I wonder how many of them are tucked away in obscure side streets. Because like, I can't even imagine that somebody would try to sneakily go get all the stamps without actually doing the trail. That would just be sad. But it seems like you'd have a hard time doing that because you couldn't just sneakily go to all the stops because they're in weird places. Man, I'm seeing this side street that goes down along the dry riverbed again. And it looks real pretty, but I'm looking on my map. And it's like, I don't think so. I'm afraid that doesn't seem, takes me too far away from where I'm going. But yeah, also in classic fashion, playing all the hits today, I lost track of the Jeju Trail. 20:00 I was just thinking, oh, it's nice to not have to care where I am or where I'm going. I'll just follow where the trail says. This is kind of fun. And then, of course, I get to a point because that's the thing with losing track of the trail. You obviously are not aware that you lost track of the trail. It's sometime later that it's like, all right, I'm at an intersection. Which way do I go trail? Oh, you're not here anymore? Oh shit. How far back did this happen?

I'm not quite sure how I lose track of the trail. But I do. So then, it's like, yeah, right? Well, I'll just loop around, basically I'm heading back to the same stop that I got off it. Just in a big loop, just going around. So this isn't so different from what I was planning to do today anyway. Just a little more normal roads. And there are some quite a few bus stops here. But without a data plan, I don't know, it's a little tricky. Like, I'm seeing these bus stops, but I have not really seen any buses.

And there was like another bus that I guess would take me back to Saegwapo, but I didn't have the fancy LCD screen saying when the next bus comes, it's just got the print out. And it would be a bit of a weight. And like I said, I just haven't seen any buses go by yet. I think with these little weave their way around regionally type buses, I think you really got to kind of know what to catch in when. And I'm not really that far from where I started at this point. So it's like, yeah, I could just stand here and hope a bus comes. But if I just keep walking for a solid 40, 45 minutes, I think I'll be good. I think that will get me pretty much where I'm going. So I'd rather not, because what if I just stand there for 45 minutes and nothing happens? You know, just walk.

And the other classic problem is just the lack of washrooms being on this kind of trail, like the more in the city trail, there are more convenience stores, still not a ton, but some once in a while. And that's one thing that hadn't really occurred to me yet. Another one of the differences between Korea and Japanese convenience stores is there's no washrooms in the Korean convenience stores. Seeing a convenience store pop up in Japan, it'd be like, oh, great. There's a high chance, probably a 19 out of 20 chance that I can go to the washroom there. In Korea, it's a 0% chance. It never happens. So it's like dang. I have passed a few little cafes. I still haven't pulled the trigger on that one. But that seems like that would be. If I really was desperate, like, oh no, I'm going to poop myself. Then I could go into one of these places and buy a latte. But yeah, ultimately, just a little walk around. Just a little walk around.

Yeah, I guess the washroom thing, it's tricky because, you know, I've started my regiment now of not eating before I go out on one of these trips, so I ate a couple little granola bars. I got it Daiso, and that's it. It's also just the drinking part is I got a bunch of liquids to hydrate myself with the sun beating down on me, but I'm just a little concerned about doing it because no washrooms anywhere.

And then at the end of this little mozi is still a long ass bus ride back home. I'm afraid I just can't afford to to hydrate.

I'm in some kind of like somewhat ruralish, like I think if I had to, if I was desperate, I could probably find a bush to pee in or something. But if I wasn't a man, I absolutely could not, and even as a man, I don't know. I think I would rather not. I'm a little too close to civilization, a little too close to people and houses and stuff.

I don't want to be the guy peeing on Korea. So yeah, that remains definitely an overall issue, I guess, when you walk 200 kilometers around an entire fucking island, you can't always find a place to comfortably pee.

Or in this case, you often can't. Either there's like a nice...

Oh, there goes the bus. Little tiny bus. 722-1. So yeah, I guess there was a bus coming, but yeah, I mean, I would have been standing there this whole time. I hate standing still, especially in the heat. I asked for in a half way there already. But yeah, either there's like a nice touristy beach, and there's washrooms everywhere, or there's an area washroom to be found. No middle ground. Very rare to find, I just saw random. I didn't know where washroom. Again, there's another reason why good old Japan has such a warm place in my heart. It might be the only country that does that, but it does. It's just like, oh, well, what do you know, a washroom?

You know, it is weird, slowly, like learning more and more about these cultures. It's like all this terrible stuff Japan did. 25:00 Some of the germ warfare stuff they were doing in World War II was horrifying. And then all the terrible stuff they did to Korea, but then I'm learning about all the terrible stuff Korea did to the people of Jeju. And it's like, man, shit sure it does run downhill. Every culture has their terrible underbelly.

But why am I bringing this up only just to say, but hey, at least some of them have washrooms all over the place. What a terrible point. What a terrible take. So let's just fucking, let's cut it out. Let's cut it out for today. We're done. Alright, let's fade out and fade back in on another day on a different adventure.

Alright, day off in between. I got a new adventure planned for tomorrow, but today's a nice laundry day, day off. And while I'm waiting for my laundry down the street from the laundromat is one of those little machines where you spend 50 cents, if not 40 cents, if not 30 cents, some of them are on this island, to get a little tiny coffee. This one is the full 50 cents, but it's like fancy. It's a fancy mocha. Little tiny, I wonder how many fluid ounces this is. It's a little tiny cup and it's only half full because in the winter it needs space for ice. But I love these so fucking much. It's so perfect. You know, they're a lot more prominent in the cities that have subways because they're in every subway station. They're a little more rare here on Jeju, but they're still around. Yeah, like this is a perfect example of like I'm just doing laundry. I'm going to be here for almost an hour probably. I don't want a huge coffee. There's no washroom here, so I mean just a little coffee. You get a little taste of coffee and there's no worries that it's going to run straight through me because it's so tiny. I love it. Anyway, the reason I'm bringing this up is down by where the machine is. There's always these dudes just hanging out and smoking and chatting and whatever. And after my experience getting stranded, halfway across the island the other day, now I'm a little more, you know, I'm sizing things up a little different. I'm like, who are these lads? What's going on? And they are what I suspected they might be taxi drivers. There's like six cabs all lined up there and they're just hanging out while they're waiting for calls. And I was like, ah, sweet, like put that away in the mental roll of decks. If I ever need a taxi in Seguapo, this is where they hang out. This is where I come to get a taxi. Of course, it's also around the corner from my hotel. So that's no use. That's zero use. If I'm here, I'm already home. But who knows, man, maybe someday in the future. What if I come back to visit the island sometime? And I'm in Jeju City, say, or just some random place. I don't know. And I get stranded here in Seguapo. Now I know where to go. Of course, maybe at 2 a.m. this doesn't work. But I got a good, like a good lead, a good chance that there will be taxi cabs in this one area. I'm just glad that I found it. I have a little sip of coffee.

Oh, that's the good. That's the stuff. I fucking love this shit. You know, if I had to, I mean, there's been a lot of cool stuff about South Korea. Obviously, you know, I've had a lot of ups and downs here. It's a little less glowing than Japan. But it's absolutely going to be a place once I'm not here anymore. I'm going to miss it, even just this fucking hotel in Seguapo.

Just this morning, I was like, I'm going to miss this. This is a fucking sweet little place. But if I had to pick my family feud number one answer, top this thing, because I'm just such a fucking shallow moron, top thing that I'm going to miss. Is it going to be the beautiful coastlines? Is it going to be the amazing mountains? I mean, I'll miss all that stuff, but it's the 50 cent coffee. I fucking love this. This is designed for me. This is the perfect tiny coffee that if I could just, if I could implant this into North America, goddamn damn sure would.

All right, laundry update. Now let's fade out and fade back in tomorrow.

Alright, I'm on a different bus today, and I feel like I can pretty comfortably talk to myself on the bus, because it's pretty empty. The whole back half of the bus is just me. So I had my mindset a little bit on trying to get to Jeju City. Instead of going around the outside of the island, I wanted to try to get straight here, mainly because I finally emailed a dentist, and I still haven't heard back. It might be similar to Busan, I don't know. Maybe emailing a dentist is not enough around here, or maybe I just got to wait longer, I don't know. But I was putting it off initially because I got sick as soon as I got to Jeju, and then I was putting it off just because... Oh, that's not good. Has the bus been making that noise the whole time I've had headphones in? I was listening to jazz EMU albums. Okay, never mind. Never mind. Just I was putting off the dentist because as long as I'm careful with my tooth, it doesn't actively hurt. And you know, it's apprehension. Going to the dentist feels bad, so I just get putting it off. But I'm like, okay, I got a month left here on Jeju. I can't put it off anymore. I need to get in touch with the dentist. I got to stop being a dickhead about this. So I emailed the dentist, but now I'm just waiting, and it's like, boom, if this doesn't work.

Then what do I do? How do I, I don't know. I don't know how the dentist stuff is supposed to work. But anyway, the point is I want to try to get to Jeju, just to know how to get here. In case I get a sudden dentist appointment, I don't want to have to be learning buses at that point. But yeah, there's a weird noise in this bus that I shouldn't be talking on the bus anyway with the fuck this is dumb. So let's reconvene when I get to Jeju City.

All right, I made it to Jeju City. I've only been here, I guess, briefly once when I got just left the airport and went straight through on a bus. But right away, it's got more that kind of more fully fledged city vibe because I'm seeing a Holly's coffee. I've never gone to a Holly's coffee, but I've seen them all over Seoul and Busan and all over the place. So it's like, oh, there's one. There's one of those. See, and not only did I want to take a test run here, just in case I should hear back from a dentist just to make sure I know how to get here. But also, I've gotten so far around the loop of going around Segupo, that with a little bit in nudging, Google Maps and Naver Maps both started suggesting the alternate routes that, you know, like, hey, it wouldn't be crazy to go up to Jeju City first and then head east. There's a Tucson place. A Tucson place was the first chain that I ever started going to around these parts in Korea, though it was a little bit expensive and didn't have the amazing touchscreen technology. And there's a KFC, so what? Jesus, McDonald's, yeah, everything. Everything is here.

I'm pretty close to City Hall, so I guess that makes sense. I got off a stop before then. But City Hall is technically the stop I'm looking for. But yeah, the one thing it mentioned, it was the 800 bus. And this is where it's good to do pre-tests because I was like, got right, 800. I put a little bookmark of here's where to go catch the 800. But the 800 is one of these like dedicated airport shuttles. And it wasn't going to show up for like 40 minutes. It's just like a really uncommon bus. And really didn't, you know, not at all casual either. You know, it's a it's a full-on airport shuttle. So I dicked around a bit more and found a different stop where I got on the 182 bus. And this seems to be my best bet.

Because you catch it right by the Segwapome McDonald's. It's so easy to get due. It's a little more. Instead of the dollar 50, it's a whole two dollars. And then I think it charged me 60 cents on the way out. Which I wasn't sure about that with the the 201. I wasn't sure if it was ever charging me extra on the way out. It didn't seem to be with all this traveling and stuff. I think I've I've spent less than 30 dollars on bus ride so far, which is pretty good. Because I've been fucking all over the place, over and over many times. 35:00 But in the case of this bus, it goes pretty much straight north, just around the edge of Halas and Mountain. And it is basically like you're driving through jungle. And then that gives way to like fields with horses and stuff. And then finally you're into Jeju City. So it kind of makes sense that they charge a little more because it's sort of whoever got on with me at the start, which weren't that many people. It's like, all right, we're the ones like nobody's getting on midway. You only take this to go straight from Segwapota, Jeju, I think. Generally, and it's still a fine deal, not bad. And yeah, now that I'm here, I've got a little marker set on my Google Maps of where I can go to catch the 201 and just head back to the spot where I ended off walking around the outside of the island. And yeah, this could be kind of cool because I could just kind of get off at different places or just like add slowly to my knowledge of Jeju, just inadvertently, just like what I did today. Like I was supposed to get off at City Hall. But it's like I'll just get off one earlier, take a little walk. I mean, it does just seem like pretty standard issue city. Yeah, I can just start picking away at it because this does seem like this makes more sense. Then just going all the way around the loop, which is getting extremely painful. I might do that still on the way back though. We'll see, I don't know, because this does involve transfers and stuff. Oh, I thought that it was a Denny's and I was thinking like, I've never seen a Denny's here. But no, it's Dennis and it's golf, golf store. Oh, I saw a place through the window called I love Jesus pizza. It's just like, well, that's in your fucking face. All right. I know there's a lot of Christianity in Korea. I know a lot of people love Jesus. Presumably, there's a lot of fucking pizza stores too, pizza shops. I mean, this person has no time, no chill. There's no time to be subtle. We're not going to bring you into the store. And then, because that happened to me one time, my friend Menu in Vancouver, he took me to like a mom and pop Korean place. And that's the first time I had like the 10 like side dishes, tons of little side dishes. And when we got in there, there was a lot of Jesus imagery. Because it was almost kind of like a less of a restaurant, almost more like just going into some lady's house and she just made us a bunch of Korean food. This was way back in like 2006 or something. And I mentioned that to him. I was like, oh, I didn't know that. And he's like, oh, fuck yeah, dude. Korea is all about Jesus.

Tons and tons. Missionaries did well around here. But yeah, that's that. That's the most in your face. But I mean, there's a lot of like, you know, those glowing neon crosses in the sky everywhere. But yeah, I love Jesus pizza. That kind of tickled me.

Well, yeah, speaking of touch screens at coffee shops, idea coffee has been my constant favorite thing. And it's such a such a heartbreaker that there's not one in Saegwapo. I made a little mark on my map of an idea, but I literally just walked by one also. There wasn't the one I marked. So I'm going to keep going. See if the one that I marked is also there. But there's at least six of them labeled. And I already walked by one that's not labeled. It's just there. So yeah, I mean, I like Saegwapo. I like how chill it is. Even just being here, just walking through Jeju City a bit. It's like, yeah, I don't think I would go out of my way to stay here. Like this doesn't seem like the home base you'd necessarily always want to come back to because it's just city stuff. You know, I don't know why I come to Jeju Island for city stuff. But you can't deny the convenience of just whatever particular kind of coffee your little heart desires. It's here. They got it. I was going to say seeing that KFC there. I really wanted to come do this today because I took yesterday off, did laundry and stuff. It's like I really do want to get back on the road tomorrow. Even if all I do is go back to that mountain. I really do want to get back on the road tomorrow. And my initial plan was like, yeah, maybe I should just take a day to go into Jeju City and just try that out. But that's when I realized I could do both. I could take the ride into Jeju and explore Jeju a little bit. And still, I should still have time to get on a bus and go back to where I was on my circumnavigation. And then even if I don't like get any further, because I'm going to go back to the mountain with the war caves and go up to the peak instead. So even if I just do that, that's fine. So it's like, oh, yeah, I can do both. I can just take this other route now through Jeju City, achieve all of my dreams. And now 40:00 I'm realizing I possibly go to a dea coffee as well. Probably shouldn't just eat up more time in the day, but fuck it. But I wasn't sure I was going to make it because man, I mean, I was just, up all night, my sleep schedule is pretty fucked up these days. But then even when I finally got all tucked in, I went to bed. And it was like really late, like 5 a.m. And I just couldn't sleep, but it was in a weird way. It wasn't the normal feeling of like insomnia and not being able to sleep. And I realized about 45 minutes later what it was. It's like my body knew something was coming that I had stomach troubles that I wasn't feeling yet, but somewhere deep in my body, it knew. Because yeah, then I spent a significant amount of time in the washroom. I had some stomach ailments. My body clearly knew like, you're not going to sleep through this. Don't bother trying to go to sleep yet. You got something, you got something to do. It was basically seven in the morning before I got to bed. Like the sun was pretty much up. I think it was pretty much up. I just had the curtains drawn, but it's like, this is not good. How the fuck? Then I woke up a bit afternoon. I don't know. I got about five and a half hours of sleep, I guess. And I was like, shit, fuck. Is this day just fucked? Even at the seven in the morning, I was like, maybe, though, can I pull this off? Just desperately hoping I could somehow make this happen, even though it seemed like today was just going to be burned. But basically, as soon as I woke up, I just got up and got going. It's like, just don't think about it. Who cares anyway? It's so hot out that it fries your brain. You just feel like you're in a weird swimmer dream anyway. So what do I care? And yeah, that's how it's been. I got up and it's like, technically, I'm way, way underrested, way tired. But, but I'm just in the heat wave anyway. I got like a teeny little rest on the bus. Yeah, it's just like I'm just disconnected. I can't tell. It's like, yeah, I'm just disconnected. I can't tell how I feel anyway. It's just too fucking hot out. So, fuck it. Here I am.

Alright, well, this is unfortunate. The idea that I marked on the map does not seem to be here, but yeah, there was one I just passed. So, fuck it. I'm just going to go back there. Very limited stuff that I intend to try out today. I basically know how to get to the 201 from here.

And I guess there's a die-so between these two stops. So that's pretty cool. Just on my way from one bus line to the other. Should I need a die-so? There's one there.

But yeah, I'm just going to go to a DIA, get a coffee, then switch over to the 201. That's my only plan for Jeju today. I'm here. I did it. I know how to get here. On a pretty good bus route that didn't take that long, about an hour and 20 minutes. The dentist should have heard from them is over on the other side of town, but it's really not that big of a city. And even just this, like this is where I'm glad I got off the bus stop early. Because yeah, if I just got off at City Hall and went to where the idea was supposed to be and it wasn't there, I'd be so bummed again and be like, no, really again. But now I know where it is. I just got to put my pin, move my pin on the map a little bit, and that's my Jeju accomplishment for the day. I figured out where the coffee shop is. And yeah, maybe if I keep coming through this way, I can just, just a little shit like this, just keep adding tiny little bits to my knowledge about this city. Without actually just spending a whole day dicking around in this city, just as I'm passing through.

All right, I made it back to basically where I ended off. Five bus stops before where I ended off so I can go back up the Seowbong Mountain, SEOUBNG, to the peak this time, and then back across the beach and then see it radically continue on from there. But I think today is, that's probably it because it's, yeah, it's already 5 o'clock. My new policy is bail out by 8 o'clock, just to make sure that I don't miss the last bus back. Although now that I've gone through that once, I'm a lot more confident. If it happened again, you know, I was very, I was just kind of lost. I was adrift. It's like, oh shit, is there another alternate bus I can take? No, okay, well let's try to walk to the next city center and maybe I can find some cabs. And of course, there is no such thing as a city center on Jeju. In the middle of the night, everything is just dead, everything is empty.