I arrived safely and without incident at midnight.  Drank some SML’s and went to bed.  Woke up, ate, exchanged some dollars for pesos, walked to the mall, bought a cell phone (Samsung!), walked back to the room, and now I’m posting this play by play account of my exciting trip.  Next I’m going to take a trike to the Perimeter road area and meet with the SSRV (retirement visa) counselor.

Needless to say, it has been an outstanding trip thus far!

One of the highlights occurred on the bus to the Airport.  I just love some of the English naming conventions adopted by Korean businesses, both large and small.  Like this:

Perhaps their motto is “we take the convenience out of convenience store”.

At the mall today I was reminded that wherever you go in the world, you are never far from Korea.

More great stuff like this to follow…