Back in Canada

I’m back in Canada and feeling almost normal as I drink a Tim Horton’s coffee while the 14c. wind blows across the back of my neck.  I’m hunched over the laptop in the tiny hanger where you wait for flights to small towns in BC at the Vancouver airport.  This is not the Incheon airport.  For the first time since June, I’m cold, but as I’ve been too hot so often this summer, either from exertion or weather, I’m enjoying it.  It’s waking me up.  I needed some kind of jolt because we got in at noon Vancouver time, which was 4:00am Korean time, and I don’t fly to Kelowna until 5: 35pm.  It was bucketing rain a few minutes ago, but now it’s just solid grey outside.  Looking over my last pictures of Korea in order to put this final blog together makes me already miss Jay, May and the girls, but I’m also looking forward to seeing the Pollocks at the airport in Kelowna and get back to my friends and life in Vernon.  I just looked up at the tv and saw that Milos Raonic is in the Thailand Open final.  That’s the first story I’ve seen on Canadian tv in a month.

A group of over 300 bikers all dressed alike prepare for a special ride along the Han River

A view of the mountains of Bukansan from the bike path on the Han River

The bikers on their way to cross a bridge on the Han River

A map of some of the paths along the Han

My last bike, much like the first one

One of 3 indoor driving ranges I saw on my last bike ride

Korean men are big drinkers.  If you click on the picture, you will see that this man has his soju strapped to the carrier behind the seat of his bike.

Windsurfers on the Han