Author: dustwel
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South Korea Trip #3-6: Temple in Daegu, Palgongsan Mountain, and last day with the family.
July 5th was our last full day in Busan, and the agenda for the day was: 10:30am pickup at the hotel by Meghann’s birth family Head north to Daegu to visit the temple containing Meghann’s birth father’s urn Lunch at a beef restaurant Visit Palgongsan Mountain and ride a chairlift to the top Car ride…
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South Korea Trip #3-5: Reunited with Meghannn’s birth family
Day three in Busan was July 4th, and also when we reconnected with Meghann’s birth family! We didn’t have plans to meet them until 2pm, and had a few things to take care of before the meetup. Meghann managed to coax me out of bed around 10am with the hotel’s ”Traditional American Breakfast”. After breakfast,…
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South Korea Trip #3-4: Haeundae Beach, Shinsagae Mall, Dinner with June
With all of the logistics and travel behind us, we’ve arrived and are off to an exciting start! So much happened yesterday (Sunday) so I’m just going to start from the top. Hold on, a LOT happened on day one. We’re staying at the Park Hyatt Busan, and the morning began with a ”grand reveal”…
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Korea Trip #3-3: Arrival & Quick Update
Almost made it! Here’s a quick update via the 200 MPH KTX Bullet Train, just a few hours away from our first destination in Busan. This update will be short and sweet as the last 35 hours have been mostly nonstop and (fortunately, this time!) straightforward travel. We hit nearly every mode of travel transportation…
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Korea Trip #3-2 – Ready…. Get Set… STOP!
It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life. Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek Meghann and I took our honeymoon to Tahiti on the tail-end of our wedding in October 2013. It had many memorable moments but perhaps none more than getting to our departure flight. We arrived…
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Korea Trip #3-1 – 10 Years Later, & the Dustwel Blog Revival
Dad, are we going to have to take classes on the way to South Korea? My 7-year-old Sage asked me this puzzling question on the way to school about a month ago. “…uhhh, I don’t think so, why do you think we’re taking classes?” I responded. She continued, ”I heard mom say we would be…
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Legacy Post – Korea Trip #2-3 – (not) Korean Pancake, eating live octopus, more of the story unravels…
Wednesday The second day we spent in Busan involved a lot of travel around the southern part of Korea. We first began by meeting Seoksoon, her daughter, Yeongmo, and both of Meghann’s birth parents in the hotel lobby at noon. We had agreed to eat an “American Pizza and Pasta” style lunch for something different…
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Legacy Post – Korea Trip #2-2 – Spending a day with Meghann’s Birth Family
A number of words to describe yesterday: interesting, intense, fun, exciting, emotional, exhausting. It was one of those days with a sensory overload for everyone involved, especially Meghann. It also seemed to be a very positive experience as well. We were with the birth family for almost nine hours, so a fair warning this is…
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Legacy Post – Korea Trip #2-1 – The Adventure Continues
I’m sitting here cramped in an economy seat on the twelve hour and twenty-five-minute United Flight 893 from San Francisco, CA to Incheon, South Korea. The down-graded accommodations will not be the only thing different during my second trip to South Korea this year, but I’m no less intrigued by what we may learn and…
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Legacy Post – Korea Trip #1-5 – Engagement in Busan
There isn’t a clear-cut place to start the story of this weekend, really. So many things happened through the course of events from Friday to Sunday, it’s a bit overwhelming to digest, even having experienced it all first hand. We took a bullet train ride across South Korea, worked with several translators, met the lady…