#kimchiandotherthings

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When you have a short layover in Japan, you make sure to make time for sushi picnics. Hai! 😋🍣🎌🍣👋🗾🍣✈️🍣🙌 #homeforchristmas #journeytojapan #sushi #travel #wanderlust #kimchiandotherthings (at 東京成田国際空港 (Tokyo Narita Airport))

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Nyctophilia (n.) love of darkness or night. finding relaxation or comfort in the darkness. 🌌 #slowdown #hanokhouse #southkorea #expatlife #asianadventure #kimchiandotherthings

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"What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy. But embrace the mess." -Nora Ephron//#liveauthentic #abeautifulmess #asianadventure #expatlife #kimchiandotherthings (at Changpyeong SlowCity)

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Living the slow life with this lad for the weekend 😊👣🐌🍂🎍🍵🗻💛 #slowdown #asianadventure #southkorea #expatlife #kimchiandotherthings (at Changpyeong SlowCity)

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Farewell, November. You're my favorite.//So I have this weird theory that people's personality reflects their birth month...I mean, everyone wants to be best friends with October and December (and July too, I think). They're bright and vibrant and exciting. But Novembers got that dark horse quality beauty. It has a certain rawness, but is also that last burst of light before the darkness. It's quiet, cozy, and reminds you to stop and be grateful. (And in the end, it's all about food and the people you're with.) I hope I'm a November. 🌾🍁🍂 #november #thisisfall #autumn #kimchiandotherthings (at 만년동)

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And to quote my favorite Hoosier..."I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'"-Kurt Vonnegut//🙌🍷🍻🍷🍂 #thanksgiving #thanksgivens2015 #expatlife #asianadventure #kimchiandotherthings (at 만년동)

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"I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual...O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment" -Henry David Thoreau//Thanksgiving 2015, A Golden Birthday 💛🍁🍂🍗🍴🍷🇺🇸🇰🇷 #thanksgiving #thanksgivens2015 #gratitude #turkeytime #expatlife #asianadventure #kimchiandotherthings (at 만년동)

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And then, it was a New Year. And a time for endings and beginnings. A season of goodbyes and hellos. And man, was it hard. Like slowly pulling out stitches and resetting a broken bone all at once. I can literally say I wouldn't be here if it weren't for this man. For helping me realize it was time to go even when there was nowhere to go, for spending countless hours in Chinatown government offices in the dead of NY winters, for packing up our life while I cried in the bathtub, for driving me home, for getting me on that 14 hr flight, for holding my hand in the love motel that first night and every night, for taking me on adventures I never could've imagined, for being by my side through it all. So this is the new year, and I feel the same and different, and that's perfectly alright with me. ✌️💛 #cheers #my26thyear #kimchiandotherthings (at New York, New York)

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Happy, happy Halloween from this Ajumma and ajeoshi (aka Korean 👴👵)!! And Kim Tae Charlie (Go Eagles!) 🐶⚾️ Spook on 🎃👻💀 #allhallowseve #thisishalloween #ajummastyle #visorgamestrong #southkorea #kimchiandotherthings (at 만년동)

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"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns." -George Eliot// 🍁🍂👣#autumnintheeast #thisisfall #easterndreams #asianadventure #kimchiandotherthings #neverstopexploring (at 덕수궁 중명전 Deoksugung Joongmyeongjeon)

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Fukuoka forever. Miss you, Japan. 🇯🇵😘✌️🗾🏮🎎🎏💴🍱🍣🍜🍢👣👘🙌 (Too many emojis? #never ) #funinfukuoka #journeytojapan #memoirsofagivens #expatlife #asianadventure #kimchiandotherthings (at Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka, Japan)

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That time we switched teams to root for the home team in Seoul ⚾️🍻👍(I mean, when your friends get you cheering section tickets how can you not? 😜) A burning Chuseok Monday 🔥👊✊ #lgtwins #koreanbaseball #gagnamstyle #expatlife #asianadventure #kimchiandotherthings (at Jamsil Baseball Stadium)

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Lately, all my food dreams are coming true. @vatoskorea came to Daejeon and we have pretty much set up residence. 🏠🙌🍹🐷⚡️😍😁👍 #vatostacos #takemetotacotown #kimchicarnitasfriez #margaritame #fattyfattynofriends #fatkids #kimchiandotherthings

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Because when a sock truck rolls into your dong and those socks are so cheap it's ridiculous, you go a little overboard. 💣💥🙊😜🎉💸💃👻 #ballinonabudget #bargainbetch #socksale #ajummastyle #kimchiandotherthings (at 만년동)

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//We travel, initially, to lose ourselves. We travel, next, to find ourselves. -Pico Iyer// #worldashome #expatlife #asianadventure #kimchiandotherthings (at Gyeongbokgung)

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Korean craft beer (plus burritos and BBQ), boats and floats, bazillion year old fortresses, and so much more at Baekje Cultural Festival this weekend. Korea, you never cease to surprise me. 🙌🎐🍻🇰🇷 #baekjeculturalfestival #teamgriffendor #expatlife #kimchiandotherthings (at 공주문화원 Gongju Culture Center)