Korea 2024: Gyoengju Tuesday

No breakfast picture! Kim untrusted me to go to McDonalds next door to get her coffee with milk and one sugar, along with an egg mcmuffin. I forgot to take the reading glasses. Would have had trouble anyway with the ordering machine even though it was in English! I was able to order her Mcmuffin without bacon but completely forgot the milk sugar. When the order was ready, I realized my mistake, Kim sent me back and I made no progress with the staff. I tried reordering looking for an option for milk sugar but never found it. Kim says she will go to Starbucks tomorrow.

The second order of the day was to go to the bus terminal that is just down the block and buy tickets for tomorrow. The information ladies had written out a lot of notes to help kim. We have a short ride to Pohang and then many hours up the coast to Sokcho. The advise from the bus terminal was that the busses to Pohang run every 20 minutes so no need to buy ahead and we have to wait until Pohang to buy the Sokcho ticket.

Next we are off to rent bikes. They were real beach bikes, way below what I would normally ride. I had a hard time getting the renter to give us a second lock but then I pointed to Kim and said “good bye” and he picked up on it right away and produced a second lock for me.

Kim was good about indulging my obsession to ride to the “big lake”. Turns out it was a lot further than we thought.
After a lot of mis-turns and stops we made it.
Lots of structures for the tourists along the lake around path.
Kim really did a better job than I did handling the bike. Note the great kick stand!
And here is a real swan boat!
Turns out the nice path we were on around the lake was NOT for us!
After having to leave the first lunch place due to “we have a group of 80 coming”, we made out fairly well.
Back on the ride home. What are the white tents in the athletic field?
A couple ducks int he rice paddies?
School trip to an archeological site and a little kite flying though we got there too late to see the actual kites in the air.
Next, the Korean National Museum and thumb print glass. Kim read the sign that said probably imported from Italy.
The whole of Gyoengju is about burial mounds. They are all over the town.
A large bell outside the museum. Again, I saw a lot of these, MUCH smaller, in Wuhan China.
The observatory, symbol of the town. Kings predict seasons to maintain there mantel of Devine selection.