- Ride to train station
- Purchase tickets using phrase book and broken Korean
- When train arrives discover there is 3 steps from platform to train carriage and that the door is too narrow for the bike-pannier setup
- Rapidly take all panniers off bikes.
- Bikes on train. Bags on train. Train takes off
- Discover that there is no designated space for bikes
- Arrange bikes in intercarriage toilet area
- Induce surprise, frustration, empathy and apathy in a ticket collector all in a matter of minutes
- Upon reaching Busan rapidly unload all possesions before train takes off
- Load panniers onto bikes
- Ride bikes to elevator. Go up in shifts. Cross over railway lines. Go down in shifts
- Ride to metro subway line
- Ride bikes to elevator. Go down in shifts
- Squeeze bikes onto peak-hour train
- Get off subway...3 floors below ground level
- Discover the station has no elevators
- Precariously take bikes up escalator
- Discover station only has one flight of escalators
- Take all panniers off bikes
- Take one bike up remaining stairs and lock to pole, while second person watches bags*
- Take second bike up and lock to pole, while second person watches bags
- Together take all bags up stairs
- Load panniers onto bikes
- Ride to couchsurfing host's house (Mary)
- Discover Mary lives on 4th floor...with elevator
- Unload panniers from bikes
- While one person watches bikes all bags go up to 4th floor
- Bikes go up in elevator in shifts
- Pile belongings into apartment
- Lock bikes to bannisters
- Game over
Next: How to get from Busan to Jeju by ferry
*Probably unnecessary as South Korea is an incredibly safe country
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