- 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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