Listening to Jinyoung and Seona, an overlanding couple from Korea, December 2018
Until now, I have not met any other overlanders (people who travel overland, usually in motorized vehicles) from South Korea. While posting questions on one of the biggest overlanders’ forum online, PanAmerican Travelers’ Association, I ‘ran into’ Jinyoung there. Soon we figured that our itineraries across the Americas were very similar but not so much so that we could not actually coincide there. After several attempts of coordination, we could finally meet in one of the least expected places, Korea, when we were both having ‘breaks’...
Quiet nights @ Larnaca, Cyprus, January 28, 2019
Quiet nights One thing I learned in Cyprus is that it can get really quiet at night. For sure, it depends on the season and the place, but I think Cyprus in winter is usually very quiet at night. In this particular neighborhood where I am staying in Larnaca, there is almost nothingness in terms of sound in the streets. Every other day around midnight, I come outside to workout at the front patio. The only thing I can hear is the noise made by my...
Hostelling @ Lake House, Larnaca, Cyprus, January 20, 2019
This is to remember in the future what my life was like at hostels. Although this particular hostel is different from others in that it doesn’t have bunk beds, many aspects of my life still happen on this narrow platform – I sleep, sit and rest, write, and plan future travels. And in this particular instance, I was air drying my hair too. On my left where it was not photographed, there was another bed accommodating an Australian bike rider. Travelers are drawn to hostels mostly...
Arrival @ larnaca, Cyprus, January 18, 2019
Only about 30 minutes of flying takes you from Lebanon to Cyprus, an EU country which is closer to Asia. I will stay here for about a week, enjoying the warm island weather until I fly to Jordan. @ larnaca, Cyprus, January 18, 2019
Last dinner in Lebanon, with Dareen’s family @ Beirut, Lebanon, January 17, 2019
Last dinner in Lebanon I’ve already stayed for two weeks in Lebanon and my experience has not always been ‘smooth’ here. For one, I had some amount of bad luck. I was sick the first few days, my laptop finally died giving the concern that I might lose some of the interview footages, and the country experienced very unusual stormy weather for almost two weeks. For another, the interaction with people was not too easy. The driving style here is one of the most aggressive I’ve...
Arrival @ Beirut, Lebanon, January 3rd, 2019
At first glance, Lebanon has different ways of doing things that make me have different perspectives. For one thing, I had to write down my father’s name three times in two days 🙂 I’m excited to be in the Arab world for the first time. @ Beirut, Lebanon, January 3rd
the power of hooking up people @ Aeropark, Barcelona, Spain, January 2, 2019
While I’ll be gone and backpacking from Lebanon to Egypt, my car will rest in a parking lot in Barcelona. In fact, it started having its vacation from a month ago, when I flew to Korea. Today I dropped by the parking lot to swap some contents in my backpack and to do some car maintenance work. Understandably, I found the battery totally discharged, but my portable jumpstart battery could not start the car either. The battery was not too young anyways, so I started to...
This website chronicles Leebong’s journey around the world for 2+ years, for the time being. To find out more, see The Travel & The Why.
To catch me, see Itinerary.
Impressions Series
