Trip to Korea

[Wilson2]

I can’t stand pepsi or coke. To me pepsi just tastes like an over-carbonated coke. My favorite soda is root beer, followed by Dr. Pepper. I don’t drink soda for caffeine. If I want caffeine, I drink coffee, black and sugarless. And seriously, what would your pop say about you calling soda pop. :)

[LHoffman]

@Wilson2:

I can’t stand pepsi or coke. To me pepsi just tastes like an over-carbonated coke. My favorite soda is root beer, followed by Dr. Pepper. I don’t drink soda for caffeine. If I want caffeine, I drink coffee, black and sugarless. And seriously, what would your pop say about you calling soda pop. :)

Ah… the Sovereign State of clap clap clap Texas!

I will forgive your usage of soda. I don’t drink coffee, though I like its derivatives, and I drink pop because I like it. (Nice avatar… goes perfectly with your name.)

[Dylan the Canadian]

@Wilson2:

I can’t stand pepsi or coke. To me pepsi just tastes like an over-carbonated coke. My favorite soda is root beer, followed by Dr. Pepper. I don’t drink soda for caffeine. If I want caffeine, I drink coffee, black and sugarless. And seriously, what would your pop say about you calling soda pop. :)

Root Beer and Dr Pepper I think Pepsi and Coke makes them.

pepsi products coke products

[LHoffman]

Well… I am gone… or I will be as of 7:00 am EST Monday. I am flying out of Detroit to O’Hare in Chicago and thence to Incheon S. Korea. Maybe I can post some pictures upon my return.

I may not be able to comment on anything until returning on Tuesday the 27th. So, see yall. Keep cool drinking those Coke products.

Somebody watch Dylan while I am gone and make sure he doesn’t get into trouble. 8-)

LHoff

[Dylan the Canadian]

@LHoffman:

Well… I am gone… or I will be as of 7:00 am EST Monday. I am flying out of Detroit to O’Hare in Chicago and thence to Incheon S. Korea. Maybe I can post some pictures upon my return.

I may not be able to comment on anything until returning on Tuesday the 27th. So, see yall. Keep cool drinking those Coke products.

Somebody watch Dylan while I am gone and make sure he doesn’t get into trouble. 8-)

LHoff

I’m not your bitch.

[LHoffman]

@Dylan:

@LHoffman:

Well… I am gone… or I will be as of 7:00 am EST Monday. I am flying out of Detroit to O’Hare in Chicago and thence to Incheon S. Korea. Maybe I can post some pictures upon my return.

I may not be able to comment on anything until returning on Tuesday the 27th. So, see yall. Keep cool drinking those Coke products.

Somebody watch Dylan while I am gone and make sure he doesn’t get into trouble. 8-)

LHoff

I’m not your b****.

I didn’t say you were.

[Dylan the Canadian]

@LHoffman:

@Dylan:

@LHoffman:

Well… I am gone… or I will be as of 7:00 am EST Monday. I am flying out of Detroit to O’Hare in Chicago and thence to Incheon S. Korea. Maybe I can post some pictures upon my return.

I may not be able to comment on anything until returning on Tuesday the 27th. So, see yall. Keep cool drinking those Coke products.

Somebody watch Dylan while I am gone and make sure he doesn’t get into trouble. 8-)

LHoff

I’m not your b****.

I didn’t say you were.

It’s not the 27th yet.

DtC

[LHoffman]

No, it was not the 27th, but I had access to a computer at the time.

However I am back now, as of yesterday and would love to tell you all about my trip: the most amazing experience of my life.

More on that later though. Perhaps I can upload a few pictures.

[Guest]

@LHoffman:

I drink pop because I like it.

39g of carbohydrates (about the max. you should eat in 1 meal)

39g of sugar is is over 2.5 days supply.

If you keep drinking this stuff, you will surely get fat, unless you excercise constantly.

[Dylan the Canadian]

@Brain:

@LHoffman:

I drink pop because I like it.

39g of carbohydrates (about the max. you should eat in 1 meal)

39g of sugar is is over 2.5 days supply.

If you keep drinking this stuff, you will surely get fat, unless you excercise constantly.

Great job Diet Coke  :-D so healthy.

[LHoffman]

Beer will get you fat faster. …. Drink Coke yall.

[Clyde85]

I’d love to hear al about you trip! I also hope to see some pics posted here

[Dylan the Canadian]

@LHoffman:

Beer will get you fat faster. …. Drink Coke yall.

I drink certain things

1. Flavored Water
2. 7 up (by Pepsi  :-P )
3. Water
4. Chocolate Milk
5. Ice Tea
6. Gatorade
7. Fruit Punch

I drink just enough.

[LHoffman]

@Dylan:

@LHoffman:

Beer will get you fat faster. …. Drink Coke yall.

I drink certain things

1. Flavored Water
2. 7 up (by Pepsi  :-P )
3. Water
4. Chocolate Milk
5. Ice Tea
6. Gatorade
7. Fruit Punch

I drink just enough.

That’s good… a healthy practice there Dylan.

[LHoffman]

@Clyde85:

I’d love to hear al about you trip! I also hope to see some pics posted here

Yes, I will give a rundown and post some pictures as soon as I can.

[LHoffman]

Pictures coming tomorrow… hopefully.

[LHoffman]

Here are some pictures:

Yes, that is an ad for Starcraft on the side of my plane. Apparently it is really big over there and they have stadium sized tournaments and game show type tournaments head-to-head… it was very interesting, I watched one on the plane.

This is a diorama of the morning when the North Koreans crossed the 38th Parallel to invade. This is a T-34 tank. Taken at the War Museum in Seoul… far more impressive in person.

Soldiers walking through the mountains (mountains are everywhere in Korea). A scene my grandfather would have witnessed many times.

[LHoffman]

A model of Panmunjom in the Demiliterized Zone: the three blue buildings are the UN buildings where talks gone on even today. On the left of the dotted white fence line is South Korea. On the right is North Korea. You will see later pictures of me in the middle blue building and back in front of the large building on the left, looking across the road into N. Korea.

This a piece of artwork in the museum. It is a teardrop shape hanging from the ceiling made of dogtags from fallen soldiers. The stuff wrapped around the ouside of it is barbed-wire.

Everyone had to go through security in a line… before meeting Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates. It wasn’t planned for us to meet them, but they happened to be coming the day we were there, so it was arranged for all the Americans (approx. 40 of us) to take pictures with Mrs. Clinton.

[LHoffman]

This is a photo of Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Gates taken from my own camera. Professional photographers were on hand and got pictures of our whole group with them.

Here is the other photo. I am third to the right from Mrs. Clinton. To the immediate left of me is my roommate Lawrence. We joked that in his suit he looked just like President Obama.

This is the group I came with standing in the plaza where we watched Mrs. Clinton walk around. This group was all organized under Military Historical Tours. In the back is our guide, in the front, to the left of me, is his son.

[LHoffman]

All along the border of the Han River, from Seoul northward to the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone), was fortified with guardtowers and multiple rows of barbed-wire. It was odd to think that this was a normal sight and that the people in S. Korea just knew it to be normal… so near to where they live. Obviously, to an American, it was an alien thought.

The aforementioned UN blue buildings at Panmunjom… easily one of the eeriest experiences I have ever been through. One could feel the tension in the air. We had to wear certain clothes and we weren’t allowed to point or make gestures, as the N. Koreans were watching and taking pictures. We were told that if anything was to “happen” we needed to run to the buses and the military would get us out of there. (The line of concrete you can see in between the middle blue building is the official divider of the North and South Korean sides.)

Me standing next to a South Korean guard inside the middle UN building. Technically, I am in North Korea at this point because I am on their side of the room. The guards are very distinctive and intimidating. You can’t see their eyes and they stand motionless and expressionless. We were told not to get too close, as they were in a modified Tae Kwon Do pose and were ready for combat.