Lincoln Peterson

The next day we left the hostel early in the morning. Well, I thought it was early but we were actually the last ones to leave at 8 am?

Today we were again menaced by overcast skies, but given the healing strength of the 15 or so kittens at the hostel my morale was high.

Apparently this is a world heritage site, but it was so overcast it didn’t look all that pretty.

And the first climb of the day! At this point it didn’t feel too hard.

And some beautiful mountains on the way.

Actually today has the most famous and difficult climb of the route. But despite being a little cloudy the weather was good! Hyeonjeong went up the entire climb without stopping.

But I was faster, so I could stop at the rest stops and wait for her.

It’s really high up.

Anyways, we ended this day in Suan. It’s a very small town famous for hot springs.

We didn’t have much time left, we decided to try to return to our house in Yangpyeong the following day. I don’t have many pictures today, I think it’s because I was trying so hard to get home before the sun set.

I remember that it was cold and raining, and that I was bitter about all the scenery and fun things that would have been great if it was not so wet and cold.

Anyways, we made it home and stayed in our house for the night. The weekend was already almost over and I had to go to work on Monday, so we decided to finish the last part some weekends later when the weather was better.

And this is about how far we made it this day.

And finally the last day! I was worried it would be slowed because we would have to use the normal roads sometimes like Busan, but it wasn’t a problem at all. The bike path was great the whole way.

I also had a small worm ride on me for a large part of the journey.

Anyways, some other pictures.

And the fall colors were great as well.

We reached the finish line just before the sun set.

Korea is a great country for bike touring. The bicycle road was completely separate from cars for most of the way and there are a lot of convenience stores and restaurants along the way.

This was something I had wanted to do before I left Korea, though because of the rain circumstances I felt a little unsatisfied. Of course, you can’t expect the weather to be good the whole way, but it was raining every single day. I promised that I would do it one more time later on.