Tae'An took about 4 hours. It is "interstate" all the way and Korean Highways have the same type of signs and numbers as the US, a blue shield with a red toop and the road number inside of it.We missed one of our turns but were able to recover. Overall it was like any interstate in the US. Crowded (but maybe 10 times worse) in and around the city of Seoul, and then plesaent in between. Saw lots of factories and farms and country side. Korea is basically a bunch of hills and mountains and valleys. All the valleys have towns or farmlands and most of the hills are lush and green even at the end of October.
Here is the rest area where we stopped.
Yes, they call it a resort and there were about a million people in there on a Sunday afternoon. The bathroom may be the biggest men's room on the planet. I mean it. If you took all of the men's rooms in the Superdome and put them all together they wouldn't have the area or numbers of toilets and sinks as this men's room has. I doubt that all the Stuckey's on the planet toether don't have that many toilets. The rest of the resort was taken up with food stalls. Hundreds of individual foodstalls. I had sweet and sour chicken and sweet potato sticks. Those were just like potato sticks, but made from sweet potatos.The reason the rest are is there is because it is at the base of this:
The second longest bridge in Asia. 7 Kilometers and more. The exit to this rest area is a sprial corkscrew down to the parking area.On to TaeAn and the surprise I should have been prepared for, but wasn't.
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I'd recommend taking the back roads on your return trip to Seoul. You'll get an entirely different perspective of the country. Be careful and lock you doors because it is perfectly acceptable in Korean culture to climb in cars at red-lights to get a ride down the road. Believe me you'll appreciate the back road expereince..rkw
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