I'm officially a bad-ass (in my own mind).

I bought myself a scooter the other day.  Yeosu, being a relatively small city, doesn't provide much in the way of public transportation.  There is no subway and you usually find yourself waiting 15 or 20 minutes for a bus.  Sure, there are taxis (and the meter starts at 1500 won), but it adds up when you take a taxi everywhere.  So I did what most of the foreign community does down here and got myself a "hog".

Okay, okay.  It's more like a piglet, but it gets me around.  It has a 50cc engine, which means I don't need to license it.  The government considers anything that small a "toy".  This baby accelerates from 0-100 in, umm, in, well, check back with me later.  Anyway, traffic in Yeosu is pretty reasonable, so I'm not too worried about being run over by a taxi or bus.  I am a little worried about the wind though.  God, the wind is strong here.  Nearly blew me over this morning.  So, if someday there are no further updates to this blog, you'll know that I am either lying dead on the street somewhere in Yeosu – or I have taken a job delivering Chinese food.

Here are some more photos of the beast.