Cabin Fever

Well, we don't live in a cabin, but we sure get cabin fever.  In the 6 months that we've lived here, we've been in the big city we live in for oh, 6 months of it.  Both Jess and I have had a restlessness in us that we just couldn't figure out.  We haven't gotten out much in the winter, so we decided that maybe we were just getting cabin fever and needed to get out and see some nature.  We decided to take a hike in the local patch of woods.  I looked us up on Google Earth and found a patch of earth that wasn't covered in city and we decided to go hike there.  After all, it was only about a mile from our house - and we had no idea!  Here are some photos of our refreshing little adventure.

Jess and Scooter getting ready to go on an adventure.

A little of what the trails look like, at least the less traveled ones.  Hiking is basically a national sport in Korea (especially for older Koreans) so we were lucky not to meet anyone on the trail during this part of the hike.

We came across probably 30 of these family grave sites.  Scooter probably desecrated about 3 of them. 

Here's a three-tier family grave site.  Some sites are more ornate than others.

We walked into a small village in a valley somewhere and found these funny looking totem poles.  Scooter did his business nearby.

Rice fields that go up in steps.  This is about halfway up the steps.

We came across this old man (ah-ju-shee) and the first words out of his excited mouth were, "I Christian!"  If only we were all so bold.. or maybe he just saw Jesus in us right away and had to claim his brotherhood.  Haha..  nice guy.

The terrain started to get a little steeper so they put up a rope handrail.  Yeah, I had to use it, I'm out of shape.

A two story gazebo "tower" halfway up the trail to the top of the mountain.  We stopped in to take a look.  Maybe I will post a neat video of it.

The Korean mindset:

Up the tower!

The decorations on ceiling of the tower.