Hello all - It's been a while since we posted.  We have been busy.  We were lucky enough to have two friends from the States come and visit within the past two weeks.  It's nice to see people from home.  Well let's see what's new for the Wood adventures  - In mid October, Chris went to Europe on business for ten days.  I will let him tell you stories about that.  Prior to leaving we received our absentee ballots so we could perform our civic duty and vo...

Sorry if we've been a bit deliquent on mail and such.   As you can shortly see, we've been a bit busy.....   Two weeks ago, we went back up to Seoul .     The Seoul Hilton was having a big Oktoberfest party, and Bosch being a German company sprung for the expats to join.     The party was Saturday night, so we headed up via the train earlyish Saturday.         The funny thing about the train is ...

Watching the Olympics in Korea is different experience.     Here are some of the pros and cons that I see:   Pro:    You get to see lots of sports that never make it on American TV.    Archery, Table Tennis, Badminton, Handball, Field Hockey, Water Polo, Shooting (Skeet, trap and target) and lots of Judo are all very cool.   Some of these sports I didn’t even know existed in the Olympics.    Synchronized Diving,...

  We are getting settled in and meeting lots of people both Koreans and foreigners.  We had a really nice day yesterday with a Russian friend and our new Canadian friend who is originally from Macedonia .  We went and checked out a fortress wall and had a nice lunch in the valley of the fortress.   Afterwards we checked out a temple with a 33 meter (108 feet) high gold coated Buddha.     You can find the pictures at the following link at the b...