Hometown trip

You can only carry over 75 vacation days from one fiscal year to the next, so before September 30th I had to use up 2 weeks of -- as the Army calls it -- "leave"). During the second week, I took the family took our first Korean road trip to my wife's hometown. Her hometown is in the southwest part of the country, really close to the Yellow Sea. We visited the elementary school she went to, though this is a new building (the old one was from the Occupation era).
We also visited her childhood home, though like the school, this is also a newer building. Some families don't sell their properties when they move to the city, but don't maintain them well either; my guess is that the run-down house the kids are in front of is an example of this.
We stayed with my wife's uncle in his recently built place, but most of her relatives live in homes like this. The house itself is inside a walled courtyard and has an elevated floor. There's not really a hallway per se -- just a kind of inside porch that leads to the individual rooms.
Like many farmers, her uncle raised beef cows in a stable, and they grow several kids of vegatables. I think this picture of the chili peppers drying in a greenhouse would make a good jigsaw puzzle.