#151 Three quarters around Jeju Island

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Holy shit, today is the new record holder for most humid day. I just got off a bus, which was anointingly cold, like freezing, like really cold. I had to put my jacket on and put my hands in my sleeves because they were freezing to death. It's like Jesus Christ, but then I stepped out of the bus and it's legitimately like not even like you just stepped out of the shower. It's like you just stepped into the shower. My fucking glasses completely fogged up. I couldn't even see. I had to like raise my glasses to like where's the crosswalk? What the fuck? Now it's all balanced out a bit and they're still pretty foggy, but I can at least see.

What a weird day, so I really been having. I mean obviously I had a lot of sleep problems in Japan as well, but it hit new levels in South Korea. I mean I just have sleep problems all the time, no matter where I am, but hit new levels in South Korea because I was kind of rebelling when I got to Seoul. It's just like yeah whatever. I don't even want to go outside in this city. It's all gross and full of pollution and garbage. So I just distinctly stayed up on night on purpose and I never really shook that. But when I have a bad insomnia day, you know, I mean it's come up recently, but I'll stay up till like seven in the morning. It's just it's ridiculous. It's beyond staying up late. And that unfortunately happened yesterday. And I don't know what to do about this. I really got to try. I mean that's the irony though of insomnia. You can't try to fall asleep. You can't put efforts into it. It doesn't it doesn't fucking matter. If anything, it might be counterproductive, but it really does destroy the next day. It just makes it quite worthless. So even though I had like no sleep at all, it's like, well it's not too rainy today. Maybe I should go try to continue my circumnavigation. And then I got myself to the bus stop and I got there at like the worst possible time where it was going to be like a half hour wait for the next bus. So I was like, yeah, you know what, fuck this then. Let me walk to the other bus stop. Maybe I'll just go into Jeju City and go try to see the dentist. But then I didn't make it anyway because midway to Jeju City, I smelled really strong burning rubber. A really really strong burning rubber smell. And I was like, huh, maybe there was an accident around here or something weird. But then I realized as we kept going, the smell never went away. And I was like, is that us? Is this bus making that smell? And then I saw out the side of the window smoke like a lot of smoke. And it was like a relatively busy bus. And I was like, you guys are definitely noticing this. How come no one is reacting? How come no one's doing anything? But I just took my cue from them. I mean, they're the locals. I had no idea what was going on. But I'm not going to try to tell the bus drivers. Bus is fucking not smoking and smelling terrible. I mean, he smelled it. Everybody smelled it. It was like, I just like, I don't know what's going on. Apparently you do. But I'm getting off this bus. This is creepy as shit, man. What is happening? So I didn't actually make it because it's like the other side of Jeju City where this dentist is.

And also at that point, I started realizing like, yeah, geez. Maybe you get a little blast of energy when you first get going, but uh, no sleep is no sleep. There's no way around that. But then I started to realize too that as with all things in life, it really is expectation. Expectation has such a large cart to play and how you feel about stuff.

Because I was like, yeah, you know, I still got 20 some days left in Jeju.

It's not extra important that I walk any circumnavigating. It's not extra important that I see a dentist. I mean, all these things slip away very quickly. And it's like, who knows? Maybe I'll just somehow fuck up and I won't finish walking around the island and maybe I'll somehow fuck up and I won't get to a dentist. Put it off yet again until I'm in Taiwan.

Even if those things happen, though, whatever, it's not the end of the world. Why beat yourself up? What's the point? And then when I, you know, recalibrated my brain, it's like, yeah, well, this is actually in its own weird way. I do like this weather. I like 5:00 when it's like this kind of humidity with cloud cover because it is just kind of neat. I mean, it's excessive today. It's kind of insane. But the heat still really not that bad because of the cloud cover. So it's just weird. It's like the kind of weather that I would almost never experience in Canada. You know, I can count on one fucking hand the number of times that it's like rainy and humid. It just doesn't happen. And since I got off the bus early because it appeared to me, like it was about to fucking ignite into flames, I was pretty far from the bus terminal. But I was like, that's fine. I'll just take a new route I've never taken before and just walk through Jeju City. And like that can just be what I'm doing today. It's only because I made up these other plans that I was getting a little agitated that none of my plans were coming to fruition. It's like, well, just make a new plan. Bitch, just make a new fucking goal for the day. New goal for the day was to just take a bus ride into Jeju City, have a nice, humid stroll with intermittent pitcher patches of rain through the city and then get to the bus station and get on the bus and go the fuck back to the fucking segwapo. Hooray, you did it. New goal achieved. But I really got to figure out some way. I don't know how or what to do. I got to figure out some way to not stay up till seven in the morning anymore. I mean, obviously by the time it's time to travel, that's going to be extra important. But even before them, it just fucks the day. It fucks everything so hard. So that's, I don't know. It's what I'm going to try to do. But I guess if I had a good solution to my sleep issues, I would have enacted them literal decades ago. But anyway, that was today. Just a little quick, quick in between day update. So fucking humid that I couldn't see through my glasses. And I don't know, man, if your bus is just spewing smoke and smells like a burning tire, I guess that's fine around here. I guess everyone's just like, whatever, we're almost what we're trying to get to. Just tough it out. Wear me the wussy outsider. I was like, yeah, okay. I'm getting off the bus, though. So good luck, everyone. Good luck.

All right, it's the next day. I'm back at the place where I ended last episode where I found the amazing super like rugged campsite style washroom at a nowhere, right, when I needed it the most. So I was just back there, just stopped in real quick, even though I didn't really need it. But just like, why not? Take a bonus pee after my long bus ride. And yeah, there was like spider webs across the door and stuff. And just like, yeah, that really is weird. I don't know why that washroom is there. I mean, even just the way it's designed, you can't even tell it's a washroom. It's like turned away from the road. It's like so obscure. But I'm so glad it was there the other day.

Awesome. It's pretty windy today. All the windmills out in the water. They're all spinning today.

It's really overcast still, but it hasn't rained at all. And I feel like it might not. I mean, who knows, but I think I might get lucky today. This kind of turned out. The weather's actually a lot nicer than yesterday. So it's all right that yesterday was a bit of a incomplete attempt to come circumnavigate. This is one of these things too, where it's like, oh wow, it's rainy again. And it's rainy again. And it's rainy again. Wait a second. The week-long forecast says it's going to be rainy every day. And even then, like, it still took me a little bit to realize like, oh, right, the rainy season. I've heard people talk about that before in Japan. Obviously, it's the same everywhere in this region of the world. I'm going to try to kind of hold my hat as a windscreen around my recorder. Hopefully it's not too bad, but it is really windy today. But as far as like a rainy season goes, I guess just going by my Canadian experiences on the East coast of Canada, the weather is crazy. Like, you just don't ever have the same weather for extended periods. It's all over the place. And when I lived on the west coast in Vancouver, it was always 10:00 really, really hot in the summer to the point that like, grass was dying and stuff. And then it would get all cloudy and crappy into the fall. So I really didn't expect, I guess, the rainy season to be right in June and July. But if you're from this part of the world, you know, he would just expect this. Like, when you're planning out your eye, well, probably you wouldn't be planning out your walk around Jeju Island this time of year just because of the heat and humidity. But additionally, the rainy season too, I mean, that might also be why the Jeju Ola trail website that said don't do this in the middle of summer. Maybe they meant this as well.

But overall, if I am stuck doing this walk in the middle of the summer, I think this rainy period, I think overall is probably better. Because yeah, like days like today, it's not even raining.

Yesterday, it didn't rain too much. I don't know, just because the heat was so bad, the heat was so insane. But I guess if a big super rainy day happens, you know, I guess you can kind of fight your way through the sun more easily. If I wanted to go walk in the sun, it's a little unpleasant, but it's doable where there's, it's a point with the rain, where it's not doable. So we'll see, I mean, I still think I'm going to make it. But now I'm thinking if I don't, it actually might be if we have a big like a bunch of rain. Maybe that'll do me in. We will see.

And man, these numbers on the bus is too. I was just going to wait for the bus. And a bus showed up right as I got there and I was like, oh wait, is that the bus I need? Like I got to, I got to shock my brain, jog my brain right away because I don't have time to waste here. Like I got to get on this bus right away if this is the bus. And it was the two eight one. And I'm wrecking my brain and I'm wrecking my brain and I'm like, no, no, because it's the two oh one and the two oh two that go around the outside of the island. And it's the one eight one that goes up to Jeju City. So the two eight one is some kind of bastardization of both. It's not what I needed. But I'm glad that this ride is going to start getting shorter now, because yeah, so I'm doing the thing where I take the two oh one to Seguopo bus terminal. And then I figured out you can just within the terminal hop on the two oh two from there. And I was all confused last episode. What's happening? It's not that confusing really.

But I'm glad that this ride is going to start getting shorter because yeah, for whatever reason, maybe it's just the different bus types. The one eight one up to Jeju City is a lot larger of a bus. So it just didn't give me a lot of motion sickness problems. But this one, I'm right back to it. Still a very long ride. And I'm just like, oh geez, there's that feeling.

Not fun sitting on the bus. But then I get here and then it's fine. You know, it's always worth it. Now I'm here by the shore. And there's like all the windmills. And I think I've escaped the city too.

I'm far enough south on the island on the southwest side that I've definitely escaped. At least for the time being, I've definitely escaped civilization. This place is Ruralsville. I also saw a little sign just yesterday as I record this. So when you hear this in the future, this is a long past. This is just the new policy. But I saw sign that said starting yesterday, no cash on the bus. You have to have a T-money card. And you have to pay with the T-money card.

Which is what I was doing anyway. But I was like, I have anything ever goes wrong. I somehow lose my card or I forget to refill it or something. It's good to know that you could do the backup of money. But that is no longer the case. The bus does not take money. But yeah, now for sure, you need a T-money card.

Which I got mine from a machine at the subway station by the airport in Seoul. But this little this little sign said you can get them at convenience stores. Which I did try that briefly. And the one convenience store I went to did not have them. But presumably on Jeju, it's easier to do because it's your only option. It's money too. This one I got out of the machine. Because if you look on YouTube videos about these T-money cards, you can get them like they don't have a uniform look. You can get all kinds of cool ones with different designs and stuff. So I was disappointed in a way that the one I got was a tourist one out of this machine that did give me a tiny cash back. Gave me back like 20 cents whenever I rode the subway in Seoul. Not a bad thing to have, but like doesn't really matter either. But it's just kind of these like garish colors. And it's got a big text band at the top that says, tour Korea, you know, tourist 15:00 card, whatever. And he has a little disappointed just because I love my transit cards, like when I was stuck home during COVID. I loved looking at like, oh, there's my Vancouver one. And there's my Toronto one. There's my Montreal one. There's my Amsterdam one. That one's pretty ugly too. But my crown jewel was the sweet card from Japan. And I was like, ah, my Korea one, it's all ugly. But I never bothered trying to replace it or anything. I just started using it. And now I actually like it. I've just been using it so long that now I'm like, ah, my card. There's my little card. Look at that ugly thing. Like, now I like it. Now I want to keep this one.

Alright, I guess now my mission is just to walk. Walking along the shore, this is definitely a pretty underdeveloped area. The Olle Trail signs are nowhere near here. And I actually got, uh, there was a sneaky edit in here where I actually got to like a little stream that I couldn't cross. And I had to backtrack through all this tall grass and stuff. Like, I was too much on the shore. I was trying to stick to the shore and I got to an impossible part with no bridge. I had to back up, go back and around. But this is, uh, this is what I was asking for, man. I've only passed like three people so far today. This is just shoreline stuff. Nice, rugged shoreline. Lots of windmills. Oh, actually, there's, uh, two windmills that aren't moving. Three that aren't moving. Now, one of them is moving a little bit. Just a little bit. But then all the other ones are moving. We got 90% windmill moveage. That's weird. Obviously, I don't know, as this comes up often, I don't know anything about anything. I don't know how windmills work. I don't know how. I don't know why those ones aren't moving. The other ones are, seems pretty windy to me.

But yeah, nice empty coastline. No direct sunlight on me. Really can't complain. I guess what I want to do today is that I'm very close to the point, the western point of the island where the bus stops. There's one on the west and one on the east where the bus just stops so the bus driver can get off and smoke a cigarette or take a pee or whatever. So I had to wait there even though I was only going a little bit further as the bus flies. It's going to be a bit of a walk. But if I can at least make it to there, that'll be a good spot. And then that will, I guess, officially bring me three quarters of the way around the island. Pretty fucking red. It's all right. I'm going to get walking. Although that is what I've been doing this whole time. I'm going to continue walking.

This has been kind of nice. I'm out on a rock outcropping now out in the ocean. And I'm walking along a little path through some greenery heading toward a big sheer cliff side. I don't know where the past is going to take me. I don't know if I actually am going to go near there. But with the overcast weather and the big cliffs and the greenery. Not that I've ever been to Ireland, but just seeing it on TV. It's like an always sunny when they go and dump spoiler alert. I guess I don't, I won't spoil it. They dump somebody's body off a cliff. That's what it looks like.

It's pretty nice and it's still real windy. Once again, glad I brought my weather resistant jacket. Because even today, leaving the house, it's like, man, this thing really is pretty heavy. Even just rolled up and having it around my shoulders. It's like, dude, it is just too humid and too hot for this. But like the day I got stranded because I missed the bus. I was super glad to have this coat. Waves crashing. And when it does rain, I'm glad to have it. Today's the only day it's been windy like this where I really do need this hood. But I'm glad I got the hood. Even if the days when I need this jacket only come up once in a while, every time it's like, wow, I really did need it though. It would be such a bad idea not to have it with me. And yeah, before this, there was a whole area where there was a bunch of walkways that went out into the water that went right under all of the windmills. Pretty nice, not bad. I'm also glad I got the hood just because I do tend to get ear rakes from wind. Even with, I was hoping having earbud headphones, you know, once those got popular. I was like, oh, that's like sealing up my ear. Maybe that'll help. 20:00 But I guess there's a lot more openings in your head than you realize it would ever. It doesn't really help. Having a hood is super important. But man, though, I mean yesterday I was saying how I was mega tired and yeah, when I got back home, it's the worst I've felt when I haven't actually been sick. I couldn't believe how bad I felt. It's just like, man, I really am just fucking exhausted. So I did manage to go to bed early yesterday and I got tons of sleep, like 10 hours. This is what's like frustrating about being a bad sleeper. Is that it didn't feel like I got 10 hours. I still woke up feeling like Jesus. So how do I kind of feel like shit? What the fuck? And people will always give you their, well, now you overslept about a blind. It's like, I know people can't help it. People that are better at sleeping. They think they got all the answers. They don't fucking know what they're talking about. Adds all. Because it just doesn't matter. It's the point. I could get no sleep. I could get all the sleep. I could get the perfect sleep. It just doesn't matter. None of it matters. So it's just like annoying today, walking along where it's just like, my body just keeps, it's like my body is against me. It's just needle in me with like, hey, you feel bad. Hey, by the way, don't forget you feel bad. It's like, but why do I feel bad? I went to bed early. I did everything I can for you until eventually. It's nice that it's nice to be out by the shore here all by myself on a windy fucked up day. Because I finally just like lost my temper at myself, I guess. And I was just yelling into the wind like, well, you fuck off. Like, I'm not going home. There's nothing I can do for you. I gave you all the sleep. We're out here now. Just fuck off. Stop it. Stop fucking harassing me. It's like, oh, you know, here's a headache. Hey, you feel bad by the way. Fuck you. And that's the weird thing is that it works like just to kind of get yourself angry. Get some fucking adrenaline pump through system like right now. I don't know if it'll last, but right now I feel okay. Like it went away. My head feels fine now. I just needed to like get over that hump to just like get whatever bad feeling hormones to just flush out of my body. I just needed to force them out. I mean, in a way, I guess it's just like exercise, you know, it's like endorphins. But the problem is I didn't hike up any mountains today. I didn't do enough stuff to get any exercise feelings flowing. I'm just walking and I walk all the time. Walking doesn't work. You know, walking is not enough exertion. But I don't know. It's just one of those things. It's like, if you know anybody with has a hard time containing their anger, I don't know. Just try to keep in mind that all they're really doing is just trying to regulate how they feel. Because like my dad had a way worse temper than me.

But I never really held it against him because, you know, I'm his son. I know what it's like. I got whatever's wrong with him is also wrong with me.

And he had it just so much worse.

So obviously if someone is mean to you or someone is an abusive person, don't put up with that. But like my dad never got mad at people. He just got mad at video games or because he lost his keys, you know, mad at the world. He literally, he'd have to like go outside and like go for a drive so he could just like get it out, you know. I don't usually have to do that, but I did today. And I mean, that's the thing is that it worked. Nothing else was working. Going to sleep early didn't work. Going out for a nice constitutional didn't work. Being in this beautiful place in this beautiful shoreline, seeing all this beautiful stuff didn't work. Yelling into the wind, telling the fucking telling my own body to fuck off. That's what worked. You know, that's what finally like woke me up, got something different to flow through my system. So I don't know, that's just my little PSA for if you know somebody with emotional problems. That's one of my favorite lines in Donnie Darko. When that girl emits, what's her name? Gretchen. Talking about how her dad or stepdad has emotional problems and Donnie's all giddy. And he's like, oh, I have emotional problems too. What kind of emotional problems does your dad have? That's so good. But as long as they're not doing anything to you, if they're just mad at the world, try to understand. Because sometimes that's all you got, man. Sometimes that's all you got.

But if they're taking it out on you, they can fuck right off. There is no excuse for that. That's a step too far. That's not cool and that's not okay.

All right, I'm going to keep walking along these here, emerald aisles. I'm not quite sure how close I am to where to the bus stop I was hoping to get to. 25:00 And it's tough to take out the phone and check into whatever. It's just so fucking windy and it's just like, I'm just going to trudge. I'm just going to keep trudging. And then I'm going to get to a bus stop eventually. I'll get back to the road and then we'll just see. Even if I don't quite get there, I'll be close enough, whatever.

Man, this is pretty fucking nice. So this trail did go up into the cliffs. And now I'm like up on this cliff side looking out at the ocean. And there's some other smaller mountains out in the water that I don't think you're allowed to go to.

I saw some colors on one of the shores. I'm like, is that people? But no, I don't know what that is. I can't tell.

But it's super pretty. And I just found a sign. So I thought, because I think this is the first thing on the west side of the island that is so good that I would say like you should come see this. This one's worth it. It's the Sang Yigijian Sea Trail, S-A-E-N-G-Y-I-G-I-J-E-O-N-G. Sea Trail. It literally means a cliff trail with nesting places for birds. As Sang Yigijian stands for bird cliff and sea. Flocks of Korma Ronts, which I guess is a kind of bird I've never heard of before, herring, gulls, and gulls inhabit this area. I think you said gulls twice.

But I guess that helps explain why everything is a jihong. If jihong means sea, that would explain why I see that word everywhere because... Everything is next to the sea. Sayang Yigijian, surely in pronouncing that wrong. It's Route 12. Is that Route 12 of the Ola Trail? Probably. Yeah, this is real nice. Man, this is for sure where it's coming to. This is some beautiful shit.

Okay, I'm still on the same trail, but I found a sign with a different name, so I don't know, just might help you figure out what the heck I'm talking about. This one says it's called the Dang San Bong Geo Trail. D-A-N-G-S-A-N-B-O-N-G. Geo Trail. And I can still see those cool mountains. Why do I keep saying mountains? They're islands. You call those islands when they're in the water. They're not little mountains in the water. But there's a plaque here with a story. The Chagwidow story. This overall doesn't make sense. Spoiler alert. But I mean, you know, these weird stories, they never make sense. It's not like our western stories about Jesus and stuff make any sense. Why should the rest of the world make sense? But the basics of these islands. Chagwidow is composed of uninhabited islets. Yeah, I guess that's what you call a tiny island. Do you pronounce it islets or islets? Jukdo, Wado, etc. It's about two kilometers away from the seashore of Gosan, Rijaju Island. Chagwidow natural reserve was designated as a natural monument for its beautiful scenery as well as its high biological value. The name Chagwi literally means stopping a boat from returning home. So there we go. That part is all like, yeah, okay, cool. Little islands. If you were in a boat, you could stop there just before you get back to the shore, two kilometers off shore. Now here's the story. According to local legend, a man named Ho Jong-Dan, master of Feng Shui from China, was worried about the emergence of a great figure who would pose a threat to China. On his way back to China, after cutting off the veins of earth and water, the guardian deity of Mount Halasan turned into a hawk, created a storm, and sank his boat, returning home near Chagwidow. Okay, so anyway, there you go. I don't think I've actually read one of those stories since, well, I guess when I first got to Busan, there was one up on the mountain with the guy who fell off his horse. And then, over by the ocean there, by the seaside, there was another story of a mermaid who could see her homeworld reflected in the water. 30:00 Some such, these stories pop up all over the place, but yeah, I mean, I just generally don't necessarily read them because, you know, they're just weird.

It's just a weird story. But I thought I would read that one just because visually this place is fucking gorgeous.

Give this place a little extra shine. I'll read your weird story, Chagwidow. Why the hell not?

You The S.E.R.A.S. The S.E.R.A.S. Man, that is quite an A-plus area. Once you get down off the side of the cliff, thankfully the Olle Trail arrows are there to direct you because it's a little counterintuitive. You got to kind of backtrack a little, circle back a little. But as long as you follow the arrows, then you go down to the shore and you can see all those cool eyelets, the islets, out in the sea from the other side, from the side, from a different angle. Just nice, just fucking nice all around. And then you can also look back at the cliff side that you just got off of. And it's all pretty as fuck. And now I'm just walking down a little country road. I don't know where the major route with the bus is, but I got to assume I'm not too far from it. And I think I'm reaching the point now where it's probably about time to bail out. So I'm going to say, let's just presume that I made it to the three-quarter point.

I'm actually pretty sure I am past it at this point. Oh, okay, wait, I'm remembering.

I saw this on the way in. I'm actually not quite there. Siouxwell-Bong Peak Summit is the halfway. And I'm not quite there yet. See, that's the thing. I could just skirt past that and get to where I was trying to get to. But I would like to go up there. Yeah, it looks like a whole extra to do. Siouxwell-Bong Observatory. It's got the little camera icon on Google Maps. I definitely want to go check that out. But not right now. I do not want to walk up another mountain. Or do I? I mean, there's the, there's the freaking Ole arrow pointing me in that direction. And actually, I don't know where the bus even is. Ah, well, fuck it. Fuck it. It's quarter to seven. I got time to do this. Going up to Siouxwell-Bong Peak summit. Then I'll catch a bus. We're going to make it. We're going to make it to the three-quarter mark, for sure. I'm happy to report though that I feel so much better. You know, I'm still like a little just weirdly wiped. Because I mean, I just stay up every day. I don't know. That's nothing new. But yeah, it was just this. It was such a frustrating feeling earlier where it was just like my, I just felt like my head was like clawing me down, like pulling me down. Like, oh, go to sleep or something. Stop doing this. But like I said before, it's that combination of like, well, that's not an option. We're out here walking. You know, there is no bailing out. And I went to bed like before midnight yesterday. I didn't wake up till 10 a.m. It's just inappropriate. I know it's weird to say that about your body. Obviously, it's just whatever, natural. But it just doesn't make sense. It's just not okay, man. Like, if my body's going to fuck with me because I stayed up all night, that's one thing. If my body's going to fuck with me for no reason, give it a rest, come back. But yeah, I don't know. Once I yelled into the sea, may or may not have beat my chest a little bit. Like an angry ape, I still feel alright. It really did help. But you just can't do that kind of stuff in polite society. You've got to be on a shoreline on a windy day. Though speaking of that, the sun is also peaked out just a little, just a teeny bit, which is also very nice. Just a tiny little, hello, hello son. It's so nice. The other thing that's kind of nice is from my early days in Korea. 35:00 How my favorite coffee brand was a cafe la. Just the regular one with the brown label, with the light brown label. I loved it. Oh, man, I'm only like a little ways up. And there's already a gorgeous view. Another one of these just like cliff sides covered in greenery.

And the ocean. And yeah, it's the same. I think the same thing I could see on the shore of the eyelids. It's just something blue on the shore. It's like a blue drum. Don't know what that is. It seems awfully large to be just something that washed up, but I don't know what it might be for. Anyway, this one brand, a cafe la. It's my favorite. But I haven't been drinking them lately because I've been buying the coffee that comes in cups so I can then fill the cups full of popsicles so they don't melt down my arm. Oh, look at that. There's actually a coastal trail. I walked, I followed the ole markers kind of through a field, but there is actually a coastal road I could have walked on. But maybe there's a reason why it didn't lead me that way. Maybe it's just for cars. There might not be a lot of space to walk on.

Looks pretty though if you're in a car. Yeah, I haven't had a cafe la in a while and also because the convenience stores are just completely random around here. My kingdom for the fucking plum popsicles, they're so hard to find. I found a pineapple popsicle of that same brand. There's strawberry plum and apparently pineapple and the plum is quite rare and the pineapple is mega rare. They only had one of them and I've never seen it before and it was kind of nice but luckily I'm not obsessed with it like I'm the plum one because I'm never going to see them again. So along those lines the a cafe la may or may not actually be at the store that you're at. But not only did I get by to get one free a cafe la's today. But because my share houses in Seoul and Jetchon didn't have many fridges and then the one in Busan did but I didn't bother plugging it in because I wasn't using it for anything and it made a lot of noise. So my a cafe la's were always warm when I drink them in the morning. But I realized today that you know I drank one when I first bought them and then the other two have just been in my pockets and they've been getting progressively warmer throughout the day and that's what I really like. It's just so delicious. Nice a cafe la at room temperature. Mmm so yummy. I really love that shit. It is weird how you just develop a taste for whatever's around like my dad. When my dad was growing up my grandpa in Quebec had a little general store where one of the things they would do is sell cheese where they had like a huge cheese block and he would like cut it up like the big I don't know just like a big slicer thing to slice up cheese and there would sometimes be a little odds and ends of cheese that had just dried up throughout the day and my pa was allowed to eat those at the end of the day and for the rest of his life he loved dried out cheese he would deliberately take a piece of cheese not a real big one just like a little corner of of a block of cheese and he'd put it in a in a cabinet somewhere you know and then that night he would usually eat it on on crackers. He just loved dried cheese and in fact his mother my grandma Macnally she loved burnt toast and I never got the story of how that developed. Apparently people were just eating weird stuff in rural fucking Quebec but yeah she always wanted her toast burnt yeah she wanted blackness on her toast that's how she liked it so anyway room temperature or cafe law that to me that's that's premium the premium Korean coffee experience that shit's so fucking good I loved it and actually possibly all that caffeine also is the reason why I feel pretty good right now if it's a vicious circle I'm sure that doesn't help a person fall asleep early but that's so demoralizing too is it's like should I even fight to try to go to bed early again what the hell's the point if I'm just gonna wake up feeling miserable either way anyway this isn't a fun topic I'll stop talking about my sleep problems just thank the Christing Lord above that I have a basic lifestyle where it doesn't really matter that much that I can never sleep right because yeah every job I've ever had in my life 40:00 has been made significantly fucking harder because it just don't fall into line doesn't matter how long I have the routine of having to get up at a specific time each day my body never adapted not once I just got ground down more and more and more and more and more misery in some ways doing the old graveyard shift at coffee shops in Vancouver it was the thing that suited me the best and I mean even in those cases like I'd be taking the bus home I'd get off at 7 a.m. in the morning and I'd be like nodding off on the way home on the bus it wasn't easy to stay up that late but it was easier than getting up early anyway as you can hear I'm walking uphill and yeah every time there's a break in the trees it's yet another view of those little islands yeah everything around here is just like hey take a look look at these islands from every possible side there was even one of the plaques had a picture that was like hey by the way here's what your shoreline looks like from over there you'll never be able to see that view but somebody else took a picture and here it is and here's a pago at the top coming up with cars this must be oh and there's the observatory because it's a building with a fucking big ball on the top a big white ball yeah this wasn't so bad actually I mean I literally just rambled and talked my the whole time I went up that was not a difficult journey I just psyched myself out a little because it's kind of the end of today that wasn't so bad soal bong is 77 meters high serves as an observatory of the western part of Duju Island offering dramatic views of sea and land it's steep seaside cliff called Iongal extends about two kilometers eastward and is well known as a natural springs called knock gumball okay here we go so long ago they lived a brother and a sister named knock go and sual respectively they came to sual bong to pick up the root bark of various airy elacious shrubs another word I've never heard before that would save their dying mother they found the herb growing on the steep seaside cliff of a peak sual bravely climbed to the cliff but fell to her death I knew that was coming but fell to her death just as she picked the herb knock go overcome by grief cried for 17 days okay that's not so bad I thought he was going to throw himself off the cliff overcome by grief knock bow cried for 17 days his tears over the loss of his sister became the natural springs that flow from the cliff yeah that's a little more in line with reality still a load of fucking hoey but it's a little less fantastical than most of the stories and now as is tradition we're up at the top there's a couple of big spyglass things looks like they have a money slot like you got a pay to use it to look through this magnifier thing big binocular things but they don't work so well for me anyway what was my glasses and all but yeah the sun has disappeared again it's very overcast and gray again but in a very beautiful way and again I guess this is the tradition right just imagine a view that you can't see there's the cliff side all covered in greenery the waves crashing down below me this is actually high enough up and steep enough that I don't love the feeling of standing this close to the edge even though there's a fence it feels a little weird then there's those islands out in the fucking water and then back behind me I can see everywhere that I walk today pretty fucking nice man pretty fucking nice I wonder that because yeah I can see now this seaside road that goes this whole way but I feel like it's probably not coincidence that the Ola trail told me not to do that because if you did have to walk along it without pedestrians like it's very narrow I don't think there's a pedestrian part I think you know you just being cars way that would not be fun but it's too bad because it looks very pretty it'd be a nice theoretically a nice walk and in actuality a nice drive 45:00 yeah fucking nice very fucking nice and there I think we officially made it three quarters because I remember it was a something a rather peak it was like okay that's where I got to get to and this is the only thing listed as a peak that I've passed today so this is definitely it suelbong peak three quarters awesome as for this observatory building I don't know but I also don't care I don't need to go any higher up I'm already high enough up this is I'm already uncomfortable this is fine all right well thank you again for joining me on one of my coastal adventures oh this is cool now the other way I can see the coast coming up ahead of me though I can't see that far because yeah it is fucking man with this humidity and overcastedness yeah I can't see very far down the coast before it all just disappears just gets swallowed up in the mist but this is nice this is like way way nicer than then when it's sunny so much more comfortable so much easier to do this walk without just melting into a puddle and also just really pretty in its own weird creepy overcast way still super duper nice nice and windy no rain today in a weird way this is like the perfect weather I mean I guess I wouldn't want this weather for the entire walk it's nice for it to change up a bit but if I had to pick if you had to pick just one type of weather for it to be the whole time I would give this serious consideration fuck the sun sun can suck my god damn dick who needs it