Trip to Korea

@Dylan:

@LHoffman:

@Dylan:

We have Tim Horton’s based on a cool hockey player
We have Canada Dry pop.

Well… there are Tim Hortons here in the USA too. AND, sorry to burst your bubble, Canada Dry is made in Texas, not Canada. Yeah, my world came crashing down on me the day I found that out.

I am glad you say pop… I get annoyed with those southerners who say soda or they use Coke as reffereing to any carbonated beverage… and when you say, “Yes I’d like a Coke” they look at you funny and say “Yeah, what kind?” ------- “Coca-Cola you fool!”

Yeah like it’s like if they call it pepsi, but coca cola is more popular.

Well I think Canadian beer is good???

I have never heard them call it Pepsi before, though my travels in the south are limited. I much prefer Coca-Cola anyway.

I have never had Canadian beer… well, I take that back. I have had a bit of Labatt Blue and Molson before. But I don’t drink beer, so I can’t say. You’re a little young for that aren’t you, even in Canada?

@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.)

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:

@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.

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

@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.

@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.

Pictures coming tomorrow… hopefully.

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.

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.