Alissa and Matt Lost on the Back Roads of Jeju!!!

Alissa and I fished up at the tea museum, unable to get a taxi (they were all booked up), we headed out on foot. We trudged along the back roads with our heavy packs around our shoulders. It was so humid the sweat formed a silhouette of our backpacks straps on our thin shirts. We walked, walked, talked, and walked. There were few cars on the newly paved but virtually empty, narrow road that weaved through the dense greenery and small farms.

Feeling the fatigue of the long walk, we decided to stop for a rest against a wall of neatly stacked volcanic rocks that are so characteristic of the island. To our surprise, behind the unsuspecting wall was a swamp loaded with breathtaking lotus flowers. We took a few minutes to absorb the beauty of the picturesque scene. Then we started off again.

Alissa and I were beginning to get exhausted and cranky. We stumbled upon an old church with a small metal cross on its metal frame steeple that was covered in vines. We decided, partly as a joke and partly because we couldn't walk much further, to pray to God for someone, anyone, to pick us up!

Soon as we fished our prayer we saw a white sedan in the distance, jokingly I suck my thumb out (the international symbol of hitchhiking) and sure enough it pulled to the side of the road.

The Korean lady inside could speak good English. She told us to jump in and to just move the Bible that was in her back seat to the front!!!

God had answered our prayers!!!

She asked us where we were headed. We timidly replied...

"The Sex Museum"