I wake up at 8:30 after a 5 hour sleep. But surprisingly I am not tired at all. Wonseop woke up even earlier than me and David is still asleep.
After a filling breakfast of ramen and Mandu it's time to hit the spas and stretch for the day. We will probably get out of here by 11am. Weather forecast calls for more rain in Seoul.
2:05 - Still at the spa. We really slept in yesterday. I am trying to convince the other guys to bike into Seoul but they want to take the subway since its Raining really hard outside and they don't have raincoats. But I feel to take the subway now would be like to go to Busan and not see the beaches. It's just not an option. Even if they take the subway I will bike into Seoul.
We just finished one Padbingsu (팦잉수) a Korean ice cream dessert. And it was so good we are ordering one more. After this it's spa time and time to go.
3:41 - Still here at the spa building. The rain is continuous. Wonseop has gone to try to find rain coats for David and himself. Hope we get on the road soon.
3:50 - Got in a fight with 2 security guard and the manager at the bottom floor of the office building we were staying at. So we had our bikes by the front door but it wasn't blocking anyone because there are three doors and ours is not even open. But they kept coming to tell us to move it outside even though it was raining really hard. Anyways we were just waiting for Wondeop to come back with the raincoats and we were going to go anyways.
The third time the security guards came back he started to move our bikes by himself so I just got fed us and shouted YA as loud as I can. Chest pounding against ajushis never feels good but they are such assholes.
Anyways once the manager saw I was mad he backed off and started to be appeasing towards us. Still fucking assholes :(
5:13 - Arrival at first stamp location of the day. Gwanalu bicycle park. We will probably try to find some food around this area.
7:36 - Last stamp achieved at the blue line. But turns out we passed by the last stamp place 17km ago without getting the stamp.
9:53 - We are on the final leg of our journey. We have already passed through the center of Seoul. We saw Namsung tower and 63 building as well as many bridges. We also had to carry our bikes through knee deep water because one of the bike path was flooded. Since that time my shoes have been soaked and now as I take off my socks I can see the damage - my feet looks like 90 year old's ball sacks.
The past 3 hours has been the hardest part of the trip. So we decided to finish the trail until the very end. But this was before we realized how far it was. We thought it was only 21km but turned it it was 37km.
While taking a break we met the kindest man on the trip. He offered us some ice cream because he thought we travelled really far. And we started to talk. His brother who could speak English really well advised us we should stop going to the last stamp place because it was around 10:20 and the subway closes at 11:30. We stil ha 10km left to go. But once we arrived there, there would be no motels or spas. So we would have to bike back 10km to catch the subway. So in summary 20km in an hour. We decide to risk it because we had already gone so far. To turn back now would be tantamount of failing.
We finally arrived at our destination. It was a great feeling! But by that time it was around 11:30 and there was no hotel in sight. We got some hotdogs. And prepared ourselves for the trek to find a motel. 7.5km later we arrived at the motel around 1:30am and fell immediately to sleep. The sight of that motel was the most beautiful thing in the world.
Total distance travelled for the day: 84.5km even though this was less than some of the other days it was the most physically exhausting day.
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