Travels

I can’t think of a better breakfast than a guajolota, a tamal, drenched in salsa verde, encased in a fluffy torta roll for convenience and mobility. The price? About eighty cents. (Eight pesos.) As I sit in this cybercafe, it’s happily settling in my stomach. My flight, although it was delayed and the passport line at the Mexico City airport was quite long, went off without a hitch. Ruben, our host, and Martin met me at the airport. We hopped…

I’m in Mexico City until Friday. See you then!

My cousin Martin is about to embark, in about four weeks, on a solo two-month journey across Mexico. He’s just finishing his sophomore year at American University, where he’s majoring in Latin American Studies. I’m going to join him for four full days in Mexico City in late June. Technically I’ve been to Mexico once before (I went on a church trip when I was in 8th grade to help build houses outside Tijuana, but that doesn’t really count) —…

Well, my three weeks in South Korea has come to an end. I tried (seriously) to make it up to North Korea, but it was going to cost me too much money and there was a 50/50 shot that the paperwork wouldn’t come through anyway. Too bad. I did get to go to the DMZ and eat Pyongyang-style noodles, so that’ll have to be good enough. I can’t thank everyone enough, who’s made my time here such a success. In…

I’m not really sure what to make of my trip to the Korean DMZ (De-militarized Zone), and actually standing a few feet inside of North Korea for a few minutes. The best analogy that I can come up with is being taken to a zoo, and watching the lion cage. You’re impressed at seeing these hulking fierce beasts that you’re led to believe are vicious killers who will stop at nothing to tear you limb from limb. They feed you…

Well, it’s after midnight here in Daejeon (Slogan: It’s Daejeon) and I’m about to begin my final week here in Korea. I’m back in Daejeon for the third time in as many weeks to interview for at least a third (if not fourth) time, Kilnam Chon, the father of the Internet in Korea. I don’t have the energy right now to write a whole narrative, so I’ll just give you some snippets of things that I’ve done in the last…

Sorry I haven’t posted in a few days. I was down in Daejeon for the weekend and am now back in Seoul for the rest of the week. I’ll be here until Friday, when I head down to Busan. I hope to sate you with some photos until I get some writing in. As usual, all photos are here.