\ \ Love, Donuts, 이순신, and Me.
{5.14.2008}
Below is the view of the love motel district of Milyang as seen from the love motel room we occupied that night. Note the curtained garage entrance at bottom-left. It's so you can bring your mistress/second girlfriend/prostitute and park your car without anyone knowing you were there. You also pay upfront at love motels and leave the key in the elevator on the way out, all without the clerk ever seeing your face. Sounds super sketchy right? Like there should be cum all over the walls and cigarette burns on all the pillows? Well they're goddamn swanky! Nicer than any Holi-fuckin-day Inn I've ever stayed in and super cheap too, anywhere from $30-$50/night for a room that might have a jacuzzi, big screen TV and king-sized heart-shaped bed as well as an array of colored lights to get you in the mood at night.

That night we went to Milyang's festival and met up with Door's totally nice friend Sujin, and rather hot friend Jiyang (홍은아 질투나지마 니가 더욱 섹시해). There was also another friend, Jinsook, not pictured.

For dinner it was pots of Makgeolli and barbecue pork cut straight off a pig we saw rotating on a spit. Good times, good times.

The next day we checked out Youngnamru (영남루) one of the most famous Jeongja(정자)(gazebo?) in Korea. This sort of Jeongja was apparently used by aristocrats, who sat here all day wining and dining, playing musical instruments and practicing their calligraphy while watching over all the peons below toiling away in the fields. Can I get a resounding "Ready to serve"? Oh and I almost forgot, Jeongja means 'gazebo' as well as 'sperm' in korean, derived from different chinese characters, so those aristocrats were totally makin' some jeongja on the jeongja. Ha.



We departed Milyang, and after a lovely afternoon of riding, arrived in Tongyeong. From Tonyeong we took a ferry to Hansando (한산도), the island where General Lee's famous defeat of the Japanese invasion fleet took place. I wonder if Lee Soon Shin and Robert E. Lee would get along? They'd probably make some incredible friend chicken. Anyway...Hansando...


And the next day we found this incredible masterpiece of a T-shirt on the street in Tongyeong. Meating people in my carears sounds EXTREMELY signillcant. Especially if Mickey's involved.

Our last meal consisted of things found at the bottom of the ocean thrown into a pot of boiling water and red pepper paste (me), and raw sea squirt chopped up and mixed with rice and veggies (her). I don't know why I took a photo of this food and not the awesome raw fish we had the previous night. We found a little open-air street market, and within sat a row of little old ladies surrounded by tubs of various fish/sea animals flopping around or not. Across from the old ladies was a row of restaurants, none of which, curiously, had a kitchen. Quickly we discovered that what you had to do was tell one of the old ladies, "Hey, gimme that fish please!" and she would grab it, chop its head off, skin it, and cut it into sashimi-sized slivers all while it was still flopping around, and then hand it to you on a plate. Next you took the plate into one of the restaurants, which would supply you with all the dipping sauces, side dishes, and booze you could possibly want. We had an awesome, drunken evening eating the freshest possible sushi EVAR and drinking soju+beer boilermakers. Needless to say, after that night, neither of us were happy with the food below, even the Korean, and so first...

I screamed an exasperated "Ee Soon fuckin' Shin!" and then it was off to...

Dunkin Donuts, where we satisfied our taste buds with yummy donuts and coffee.

Goodbye Tongyoung, Lee Soon-Shin....

Monday was Buddha's B-Day, and Sunday I went to Haeinsa (a temple) with Mike and Ian. It was a good ride, took the new motorcycle, which I had to jump start the entire day by pushing it really fast down a hill, and popping the clutch in first gear to turn the engine over. The bike's a piece of shit. I've already had to do all kinds of maintenance on it, and today the kickstand broke. Arrghh. Anyway, photos of Haeinsa...




















































































































































































1 Comments:
Dude, she's cute. Keep 'er. Your little sojourn sounds like a a fun. Oh, I think the General Lee's would get along. After all the Japanese are like the Yankees of Asia, right?
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