Gongdeok

We arrived at the site and wandered around. I didn't want to go further up this way because we'd seen a riot bus in that direction.

Abandoned place, garbage, mattress.

It was crowded with tourists.

Spot the riot bus.

Paul smashed a piece of masonry so he could take this stone mugunghwa home.

Inside one home, some junk.

I was puzzling at the rubber gloves hanging from the ceiling.

Time for a washroom break.

We entered into this place which turned out to be a restaurant.

The calendar said December 2006, which means this place has probably been abandoned since then. In the next room I think was where the restaurant owner slept.

We had just gone to a place for lunch with almost the same menu.

Table for three?

The garden still seemed maintained.

We backed out and looked for another way in.

Walking around the construction site.

Paul and Nels stand outside a barricaded home.

A Super Soaker!

We crawled back behind one house, but there was too much debris to get in.

We slipped into an abandoned warehouse.

Taking a look around.

There used to be two ceilings.

Paul thinks this place used to manufacture printers.

There were a ton of old lighters.

Testing them out.

Clothes.

Paul stole a wig.

Who knows what had been living in this wig.

In the washroom.

Looking upstairs.

Paul stowed his precious wig.

We drove by the police and I snapped this with my left hand blindly.

This is the closest I could get to a good picture of these guys. They might have been protesting the construction, which brought out the cops.

These railroad tracks run from Samgakji to Sincheon at least. Now they're being built over.

Doubling on the motorbike.

Paul was running low on gas.

And it's empty.

I drove him off to get some gas and we returned.