Just wait till you experience spring in Korea
All year long I heard from staff and my new-found Korean friends that spring was an amazing time of year here in South Korea. Well, their claims were true. Come March I sure enjoyed the welcome-warm temperatures and the blossoming trees were enough to stop me in my tracks.



There are other differences from my drives in Colorado as well, most notably in the small towns we visited along the way, construction of buildings (an example of a mud house shown here), road signs (self-explanatory even if you don't read Korean), vegetation and the lack of Mexican restaurants =)



It dawned on me into the afternoon that Koreans often work their fields by hand... something you rarely see anymore in the west. The rural areas of Korea are still very much agrigarian where older farming methods are mixed in with the new. You can easily see a tractor and a hand cart in the same field! Click on the next image to enlarge for a better view of the person working in the field...



And what's a Sunday afternoon drive without stopping at a picnic area for lunch? The 'shelter' would not exactly prevent us from getting wet if it rained because it was constructed of branches and logs, but it sure fit in nice with the surrounding.




