The view from our condo at Jeju

Jeju View, originally uploaded by tgolamb.

Last week Sue and I, along with her sister's family, went to to an island off the south tip of Korea. It's a great place to go and relax. The weather was nearly perfect, and the scenery was something like you'd see in Hawaii. This place is traditionally a favorite for honeymooning Korean newlyweds, which were apparent from the identical shirts they all seemed to be wearing. It was a great trip for us and I think we all needed time away. We saw plenty of museums and such... some of them were definitely there for the tourists, so you had to pick and choose what to see.

One thing I will say though is that the drivers were crazy. There are very few traffic lights on the island, and few if any other kinds of traffic signs. Mostly the intersections were a no-man's-land not safe for man nor beast... where anything goes. Basically if you got there first, you likely had the right of way, but that was only if another oncoming car wasn't in a hurry. Stopping at intersections will only get you honked at. Just tap the brake and keep moving. One day while we were there taveling on an open lonely stretch of road, we saw two accidents within less than five minutes of each other. One of these was a head-on and looked serious. Both of them involved taxis, so you can make you own conclusions from that.