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| Anniversary Number UNO Trip! "The Car" |
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| The Driver |
Happy Anniversary to US! The one-year-married- Fekkes'! YEP, we did, we won the race for first year of newlywed-dom! And we rocked it! We started our journey into marriage racking up thousands of air-miles crossing the span of the globe, traversing across the United States and back again, so to ring in the second year of our life together we decided to add some by-land miles to our travelogue. We road-tripped across Korea, taking in some pretty spectacular views of the Korean peninsula, jagged mountains and ridiculously packed out beaches. Here is a celebration of the things that we love and have learned about each other:
Anlee has officially learned to release control of the driver's seat. YEP! Every road trip prior to Derek has found Anlee in the captains seat, but Anlee didn't get her International Drivers License, so no driving for her on this trip. She has learned to relax and trust D behind the wheel. Derek is officially the family driver. He "became Korean" and drove slightly aggressively, but safely, throughout tunnels, mountains and crazy Korean traffic jams.
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| 70% of Korea is composed of mountains so instead of going over, build a bridge over a valley and a tunnel through a mt. |
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| Warp Speed! |
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| Our Korean GPS! You try traveling listening to directions in a foreign language! |
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| Tunnel after Tunnel! |
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| This is about 8:30am. We had an early start. This random rock was pretty cool. |
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| Ulsan Balwi. This rock is known as the rock of 12,000 peaks I think. |
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Basically, the god in the below picture didn't think Earth was pretty enough so he decided to build the peaks to change the landscape.
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| Goooooo Dawgs!!! No grey hairs this year...only more sex appeal! HEHE |
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| Happy Lobsters! |
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| THE BEACH!! WOOHOO! |
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| The beach at 10:00am, fully clothes Koreans swimming in pants and t-shirts, blue jean shorts and jackets. |
Korea has the Guinness Book of World Records for the most umbrellas and people on a single beach. This beach wasn't very packed at all, but seriously, there were so many umbrellas and people. The pack them on the beach like sardines. No private beaches here!
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| An hour later! No bikini's here! Way too much skin for this conservative bunch! |
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| We kept our clothes on, too. Derek, however, still became a lobster getting burned severely by the sun. |
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| Derek wanted to see the mountains so here we are. This is about 30 miles from the North Korean border. |
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| Seoraksan National Park. AMAZING! Reminded us of Jurassic Park. |
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| Goodbye Korea... |
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| a picture from one year ago on our wedding day |
Oh GOSH HANDSOME ALERT! The beaches are CLEAN and the water crystal CLEAR! But, also frigid cold! We drove down the coast a couple hundred miles until we reached the third largest city, Daegu, the host of the Track and Field World Championship this year!
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| His parasol. |
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| This is the handsome face I get to see each morning when I wake up. |
We borrowed a tent from a friend (and his car) and set up our camping adventure in a small park next to the beach. The wind, however, was not our friend. The gusts were so intense that most of the tents were a jumbled pile of poles. Derek didn't sleep, but Anlee did overcome with exhaustion.
A year married, wow...this was only our trip across the peninsula. Can't wait to see the joy and smiles over the next 70 years....
More to come of our actual anniversary "day."
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