Mt.Soyosan

No matter how hard I try I can never get my pictures to pop up in the order that I would like. My goal was to try to knit a pair of sock, and this is what I have done so far.Here is where our adventure begins. If I haven't mentioned it,it is monsoon season over here and has rained for 5 days now. The rain stops every now and then, but it is not to long before it starts again. Umbrellas are apart of everyones atire. Now I don't know if ya'll have the adventure channel on your cable programming, but we do. They show nothing but adventures all day and night. It is Geoff's favorite channel. Now everything we do is an adventure.
This is what happens when your husband watches the adventure channel all the time. Saturday morning we woke up and of course it was raining. Neither one of us wanted to endure the hour and a half bus ride to Yong San, so Geoff talked me into an adventurous bike ride to Mt. Soyosan, in the rain. When we left it was raining cats and dogs. I was quickly soaked through and my shoes were water logged. You know how your shoes fill up with water and you're all squishy after you ride the water rides at Six Flags? That's how bad it was. Once we got out of the gate the rain let up a little. We rode about 2-3 miles and found our way. Thank goodness the street signs have english on them. Yes, I am soaking wet up above. Our clothes were pretty water resistant, but not in torrential down pours.
I am sorry the pictures are not in order. We also rode down by the river front. This was later on in the day and it was only misting by then. There are bike trails and parking areas along the sides of the river. When the weather is nice, there are tons of people down here fishing, biking, walking, and playing an assortment of games. About two or three days ago it rained so hard that the river flooded, but there was no serious damage.
This is the sign leading to Mt. Soyosan. If you look closely on the left the words are in english. On the way there we passed alot of shacks where people actually lived, and they will garden in any square inch of free land they have. Plus their gardens stink to high heavens. So much for yard of the month.
And here it is ladies and gentlemen, Mt. Soyosan. Many people say it is the mountain that is right behind our building, but I am not so sure. If it is, it is the other side of it. Mt. Soyosan is one of the largest mountains around, and there is a Buddhist monastary on it that you can camp at. We didn't climb it because I didn't feel like getting muddy as well. We traveled by bike for about 4 to 5 hours that day. We taveled deep into the heart of Dongducheon, and found some comforts of home. I find it interesting that we are traveling through a city where all the signs are a different language and there is a KFC, Pizza Hut, Dunkin Donuts, and a Baskin-Robbins. We don't even have Baskin-Robbins in Birmingham. Oh, and you have to be very careful about crossing the streets, because the people drive like bats out of hell, and they don't care if they hit you. Until our next adventure!