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Japan - first 2and a half weeks of the year; making my from Hokkaido down through Tohoku and eventually to Tokyo to fly out South Korea - April, two weeks; riding a bike Bangkok - July, April 5days - golf Darwin - September/October, 9 days - masters footy Maybe a Melbourne or Adelaide...

Short walk over the road to the bus station, where I had booked a seat on the 10.00am service. Bus was on time, threw the bike in the under bus compartments and settled in for the 4 hour drive back to Seoul. Nice, clear day Fairly empty on the bus, only about 8 people on it. Fare if I remember...

In my initial planning I was going to take a bus back to Seoul, ride the short distance to Hanam, then ride the 70km Bukhangang Path the next day. Physically I was fine, but mentally I was done. So a day at Spa Land instead, followed by a hit at an indoor golf centre No photos, tonkatsu for...

No thanks Pleasant cruise back to the hotel where I had another short nap

Nice change riding the bike without all the extra weight on it Getting closer And there

Up early and keen to get the last 7 or so km's done Not much activity as yet, and a pleasant roll the 3 or 4 blocks down to the path A lot more pleasant without having to dodge through hordes of people Getting closer Rest stop to watch the activity into Gimhae

Shower, bit of a lie down then on the subway to Seomyeon and Uniqlo for a fresh set of clothes. Dinner at one of the restaurants in the Lotte Department store. Back to the hotel and a little wander around Sasang before hitting the sack

28 and a half km's to go and should be a nice easy cruise to the last certification booth Slowed down a bit through Hwangsan Cultural Sports Park; early Sunday afternoon, beautiful day and lots of people around. Through the park and then into the city limits of Busan, where things got really...

Nice respite from a hill, Masamasa Tunnel. Also here I started hearing a concerning scraping noise coming from my bike. Nice to see the place name Gimhae, sign I was getting close to the end Stopped here for 15 minutes or so, have something to eat and take a rest. Again, a Korean rider...

First of the last 3 Certification Booths of the ride, Changnyeonghammango. Too early for anything to be open, a couple of Korean riders there who approached me and wanting to know about my trip. Insisted on photos with me as well. Koreans are very friendly and inquisitive and have no qualms...

Finally got moving, but the colours with the fog were spectacular. Lot of camper vans set up Little further on and the Sunday markets were getting set up Over one of the many bridges and looking back toward the fog covered Namji Clear up ahead and turning out to be a magnificent day

Last day, woke up feeling pretty good, about 85km to the end of the route. Fairly chilly and a bit of fog around as I headed through the town and down to the river. Bit of a backtrack to get to the bike path entrance along the road that runs above. Was dodging cars and a multitude of people last...

Big day

One more, as it turned out, small uphill, only about 50m long. When I saw that one it nearly broke me. Through more farmland then back to the riverfront and into Namji. Flower festival going on, lots of canola, lots of people and I weaved my way through them to a 711 to grab some water and also...

Slow descent don the hill, bridge over the river and a tree-liner cruise into Namji Nope, another f#####g hill. Turns out the first hill of the day wasn't counted as one of the 3 hills; the climb by the main road not one either. I'd just about had enough by now, nearly 2 hours behind where I...

This thing just kept going, no way I was riding up it. Even pushing the bike I had to stop numerous times. Way harder than the more widely advertised ascent up Joryeong. Finally to the summit. Was a stamp booth, but not part of the Cross-Country trek. Nice view though.

Off I went with about 30km's to go, and 1 hillthat shouldn;t be so tough, to my overnight stop of Namji. This was the only night that I had not pre-booked a hotel, my calculations had me arriving at about 4 o'clock, giving me plenty of time to find somewhere to stay. More river scenery Had...

Sure it's a sign saying to use the bins to stop littering. Bins hadn't been emptied for a while, were all over-flowing. Descent wasn't much fun; path wasn't great, very narrow and quite twisty and turny. Spat out at the bottom at a cattle farm Few km's down the road, and the most isolated...