Beach Ride

A great ride on Malipo Beach, which is located in Taean County, South Korea.

Malipo Beach, South Korea

Chusok

This video contains part of the ancestor worship ceremony performed the morning of Chusok 추석 before the feast.

The ceremony is lead by father and eldest son. The bang heard at the beginning of the video is the father hitting a pair of metal chopsticks against the alter. This is meant to call the ancestors into the house. As the men of the family bow two times, you will be able to see an alter with a variety of fruit on it. This fruit is an offering to the families ancestors. The ritual seen here in the video is repeated as many times as their are sons in the family. (So if a family had two sons this ritual would be done twice.) Each time after the men bow twice the two wooden cups of sake on the alter are dumped into a silver bowl and then refilled.

Alarming Alice

This video, shot in Asan, is one that I have always wanted to shoot.
The look on Alice's face at the end is truly priceless.

Back Alley Bicycle Taxi

A ride through one of Beijing's disappearing Hutong's 胡同.

My driver was a 63 year old man, who insisted on showing off his virility at a traffic light by hitting himself in the face several times. Since he did not speak any English, he explained the sights of Beijing we rode past via an amusing set of sign language.

Beijing, China

Crater Run

It had taken nearly three hours to reach to summit of Hallasan. Now that I had climbed the tallest mountain in South Korea, I had new goal in mind: make it down to crater lake at the volcanoes center.

Knowing that the crater lake was off limits and under the watch of Korean Park Services, I made my way to a seclude area on the summit and quickly began my decent into the crater.

As I neared the crater lake a Park Ranger caught sight of me and began running down the crater after me. Fortunately my head start left me with enough time to make it down to the lake. With the few stolen moments that I had, I sat on the banks of the lake and enjoyed its cool water in my hands. Above me the ring of the volcano stretched out into a cool blue sky.

It was time to go.

As I made my way out of the crater, the Park Ranger caught up with me and gave me a tongue-lashing and another get out jail free card.

Jeju Island, South Korea

Riding in the Ocean

This road sits on a tidal mud plane and connects Jebudo Island 제부도 with mainland South Korea.

The road is only passable for about 18 hours a day, while the tide was out. During high tide the road is covered by the ocean.

Definitely one of the cooler roads I have ever rode on.

Jebudo Island, South Korea