Land's End - conclusion

Our last day in Land's End we'd hoped to go aboard Captain's ship, but it needed repairs so instead we wandered around the village.We again visited the Family Mart and hung out with some locals. They seemed to really like Soju.

A little later Jen insisted we follow her along a trail she'd found. It was such a beautiful day. Here are some sights.


After a short haul on the trail we reached this majestic monument marking the official southern most point on the peninsula - 땅끝.

Here's a kinda neat reflective shot of us adventurers:After that it was time to bid adieu to Land's End and our charming host and hit the road. The rural scenery in Korea really is beautiful, especially on a sunny autumn day where the fields of rice seem extra sun-kissed:

Unfortunately around sundown these glorious open roads ceased to be as we were returning to Busan on one of the days most notorious for traffic jams - the second last day of Korean Thanksgiving. Shortly after getting on the expressway we hit a dense wall of traffic and moved at less than a crawl for several hours. Finally around 11:30pm we couldn't take it any more, exited and found a hotel. We crashed for a few hours then were back in the car around 6:00am. Though the roads were no longer blocked, they were by no means free of traffic. We rolled into Busan around 8am and figured that around noon the roads were likely back to their chock-o'-block state.

Note to self: never EVER travel by car on Chuseok ever again!!!