Pat and Patty are in South Korea!

Well, our Korean adventure is nearly over, we head home today. We are at Oak Valley Resort, where the Korean Society for Good Community conference was held last night. Oak Valley is a very modern and posh resort with a Jack Nicklaus designed course, Mayor Larson is out golfing with our Korean hosts right now, I am in the lobby where the WiFi signal lives! Had a fabulous Korean dinner last night with Professor Kim from Seoul University and members of the KSGC and Director Mun from the Ministry of Local Government and Security. I gave one of the four presentations on local community devepment, the Mayor and I on community development in the US, a Korean professor on "remodeling communities" in Korea and Director Mun on a comparative analysis of community development in the US and Korea, and it was extremely good.

My camera crapped out the first day in Seoul so I went shopping - got a Cannon Powershot SX20is - I LOVE this camera, doesn't fit in my pocket, but wow! I will probably put pix on Picasaweb and post a link here.

Now we face the grueling trip home, via LA with a three hour layover. We are hoping Director Mun can help get us on the same flight the Mayor and his family are on - they will leave two hours earlier and arrive nine hours sooner on the non-stop flight.

OUT for now!
 
Pat Anderson":2iqvxddn said:
OK, here are just a few of the 200+ pix I took in Korea. Enjoy!
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Thanks for the terrific pictures, Pat. I spent 13 months in Korea, a long time ago. The pictures bring back a lot of memories, and also emphasize for me the changes Korea has gone through since I was there. Today's prosperity was still a long ways off then.

You've inspired me to get back to my project of digitizing thousands of slides from years ago - many of them from Korea.

Sounds (and looks) like you had a great trip. Thanks again for letting us have a peek.
 
Pat, Looks like .....

"....went shopping - got a Cannon Powershot SX20is"
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....must have been a good idea. You seem to have trained it very well. Thanks for posting the link. Safe travels, and hope the layover was filled with interesting observations. :smiled

Harvey
SleepyC
 
Picasaweb is very easy to use! I have also tried Snapfish and Flickr, and MUCH prefer Picasaweb, pretty much like everything coming from Google, it is just better than the competition. Easy uploading, then drag and drop arranging.
Captains Cat":2uuxm6hj said:
Very nice Pat! Is picasaweb easy to use?

Charlie
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What a difference 60 years makes. In Sept 1950 I was sitting on a hilltop outside Soul watching the Battleship Missouri pump those big shell's into the city and blowing it apart, next morning we had to go into the place and take it from the North Koreans. Over the next two years it changed hands many times.

Fun times complements of the USMC. C-Otter

Their was no beer. :cry
 
We were up 31 continuous hours from the time we got up in Oak Valley outside Seoul to the time we arrived back home in Fall City Sunday night...the jet lag is JUST starting to wind down now!
 
One day = 2 time zones, that was what it always took me. Made one trip from China, to a meeting in Houston the day of arrival, then back to China the next day SHOULD have been painless, but NOT.

Go back to bed !
 
Pat & Patty,
Tried to google "welcome back" in Korean, thats a tuff one. What a wonderful opportunity to see another country, thank you for sharing and glad you are back home.
 
sportner":3n9466a3 said:
Pat & Patty,
Tried to google "welcome back" in Korean, thats a tuff one. What a wonderful opportunity to see another country, thank you for sharing and glad you are back home.
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According to babelfish the translation is :
후에 환영
 
Looks like a fun trip. I find Asian cultures fascinating and could spend a lot of time traveling there. South Korea is certainly on my list of places to go...along with lots of others. How did you like traveling in South Korea, and would you recommend it to others?

The flights across the Pacific can be brutal. I try to schedule them so I leave Seattle at night and arrive in the morning. The last two times I've been across the Pacific (to Vietnam and Australia) I have taken Ambien and haven't suffered from any jet lag. I haven't used Ambien any other times, but it works like a charm on long haul flights and I've never had any negative reaction.
 
We enjoyed just about everything in Korea, but we probably spent more time with cabinet ministers, mayors and Seoul National University professors than most other folks are likely to be able to do! Still, highly recommended. The food was wonderful, the sights and sounds intriguing, but mostly the hospitality at every level was awesome.

We took Korean Air not Ambien (just kidding). No jet lag from the trip to Korea, but pretty bad for a couple of days after the trip home...
 
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