Death by Taxi

This last weekend Michelle and I met up with some friends in a city called Incheon (it is a suburb of Seoul). It was the first time to take a bus to Seoul and costs about 8$ and is 1.5 hours. While we were in Incheon we went to a Bboy Tournament at a festival being held at the fairgrounds. It was a lot of fun. (FYI: Bboy are break-dancers). This was an international competition so we saw teams from all over the world, such as Holland, Taiwan, Japan, Finland, Russia, Ukraine, USA, China, Poland, etc. We would like to give a shout out to the South Korean team (who we think should have won against Holland) and the Taiwan team! The Taiwan team in our opinion was one of the best! The finalists were Russia and Japan, and Japan took the gold! Check out the videos we posted. Now, although Korean transportation is indeed wonderful, the competition ended after the last bus to our city (Gong ju) left! So, we had to resort to paying for a ticket to a nearby city (Daejeon) and then take a 20/30min taxi drive to Gongju. Once we got to Daejeon a taxi diver was available to take us to our city. It cost 40,000won (little under 40$) and there were 4 of us to split that. It just so happened our taxi driver was a former NASCAR champion; he was a speedy little guy! We were weaving in and out of cars going 120-140km/hour! At one point we hit a top speed of 160km (99mph)!!!! It was seriously like a rollercoaster at Six Flags. We thought we might die on several occasions but said “well at least we die having fun!” While the sudden stops and curves throughout the race track on a little 2 way highway and even city streets didn’t phase our driver, he delighted us with a couple stanzas from some American songs. At about halfway through our journey in the taxi, he told us that his car wasn’t going as fast because we were weighing it down (there were 4 Americans in this taxi!). We’re thinking 99mph was plenty fast :)