Repatriate Me!

There are a lot of things that I want to do before I leave Korea. This is not related to all the stuff that I need to do like visa paperwork for the wife, getting immunization & school records translated for the kids etcetera. According to the countdown timer in my blog header there is only 1 year 3 months and 18 days until I return to Canada. Time is running out and I still have a number of things I would like to do before I leave.

This summer, after I return from my trip to Ottawa in July My wife and I are planning a road trip around Korea. I figure we’ll drive around from 2-3 weeks in August and see all the things I haven’t seen, but have wanted to in the time I’ve been in Korea. It’ll also be good for our kids to see as much of Korea as possible before we move. We only decided this last week and haven’t planned where to go yet, but I’ll be getting a lonely planet book soon to decide.

Recommendations from readers in Korea will be appreciated. We are definitely planning on going to Soraksan, Ullong-do, and Gyeongju. I’ve been to Gyeongju before, but it’s been a long time and neither of our kids have been there before. We’re also planning on taking a couple of weekends this spring and fall to do some short trips. I would like to go to the Andong Mask festival, but as of yet don’t know the dates – only that it is held every spring.

In the Fall for our 10 year wedding anniversary we’ll be heading to Jeju-do for a weekend with the kids. We’ll fly down and rent a car and see all the stuff we didn’t get to see 10 years ago when we went for our honeymoon. Actually on our honeymoon we wanted to travel to South East Asia but my job at the time would only give me 2 days off.

I’ve also got one international trip planned sometime before we leave and that will be to China to go on the Beijing – Great Wall tour. I gotta go on this before I leave Korea as I probably won’t have another chance. The tour is pretty cheap and you go to the great wall and the Beijing circus as well as a couple of other touristy places. I’d also like to go to Cambodia to see Angkor Wat, but I don’t think I’ll be able to do both, but we’ll see.

My wife will be quitting her job in the next month, so we’ll definitely have the time for all of these things. The only question will be finances especially since we’re going to need all the money we can save for when we make the move in July 2011.

I’m adding a google map that anyone is free to add pins to – recommend places for us.

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Mar 15, 2010 Comments(7) Tweet

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