April 4, 2017

A very productive day for me. After a peanut butter sandwich and a coffee for breakfast I headed out to get some supplies and a sim card for the phone. Ralf worked on the bikes.

I checked with reception at the hotel, we can leave the bike boxes here while we cycle around Korea. We are booked in for the two nights before we fly home on April 24, 2017. That is a relief, because it was difficult to find boxes in Bangkok, the closest bike shop to the airport is 25 kms away on the mainland.

I found a supermarket and the prices are lower than at the convenience store. Then I headed to a phone shop. There used to be restrictions on buying sim cards in Korea and a lot of people will rent a phone at the airport because it is easier. I had done some research and thought I might be able to get a sim card locally or if not I would go back to the airport and get one there. The local phone shop was very helpful, although at first they wanted to sell me a package for $60.00, wow that is expensive. I asked if there was a smaller package available. After a little discussion with the manager I was able to get a package for $35.00 including $10.00 for the sim card.

I got back to the room and Ralf was still working on my bike. I left again to get us some lunch from the dunkin donut that is located around the corner.

I cleaned and oiled the bikes and we are ready to go. No idea where we are going, but we are ready!!

After Ralf finished his bike we headed out to the train station to make sure we can get the bikes on the train. Yep we can put the bikes on the train as we are only going one station which will take us off the island and put us on the mainland. We will then cycle 8kms back to the start and retrace our steps all the way to Seoul for tomorrow night. Dinner was interesting, I thought I had ordered bimibap, I did but it came with a soup which had shellfish in it. Fortunately the bimibap was good.

Looking forward to the ride tomorrow.