A shoutout to my baby sister, Ruby, who turns 22 today! (not so baby anymore, but forever baby in my heart :)) I thought I would write about a memorable place we had been together. Many family trips comes to mind, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, China, California; but one place stuck out simply because we…
4 Days in North Cascades National Park
I didn’t remember how scenic North Cascades National Park was until I was going through pictures of the things we did there. We hiked, we climbed, and we canoed. I still don’t know where the park starts and where it ends because it is just so big and surrounds by other national forests and recreational…
Mount St. Helens Summit & Ape Cave
Instagram is great. I use it to follow adventures of my friends and awesome photographers and travelers. That is also where I look for destinations and places to go to. But it can easily have the exact opposite effect of what I wanted. I could sit in a coffee shop and spend hours scrolling through…
Van Life in Silicon Valley
I can’t believe today is March 1st. To me, it means it has been almost 2 months since we had returned to the Bay Area. Times flies when you are back to the grind. Well, actually only Min is back to work, while I am taking a class at a local community college, job searching,…
Soaking in Natural Hot Springs [Part II]
CONUNDRUM HOT SPRINGS It was end of October when we left Utah and we aimed to arrive in New York by November, so we only had a few days to make the distance in between. We made plans to visit some friends and family in Denver, Colorado. On the way there, our local Denver friend…
Silver Falls, Total Eclipse, Blue Pool
Leaving the Southern Oregon Coast, we headed inland in hopes to visit the Umpqua Hot Spring. Wildfire was raging everywhere in Oregon and as we approached, the smoke was getting denser and we could see the blazing fire among the trees not far from us. With only 15 minutes away from the hot spring, we…
Driving through the Southern Oregon Coast
If you’ve heard of the classic California Highway 1 along the Pacific Coast, this highway changes its number from 1 to 101 at some point and becomes the Route 101 in Oregon. We had driven along the coast from Los Angeles, CA to Portland, OR before, and I wanted to do it again in Southern…
Hiking and Camping at Lassen Volcanic National Park
It was still only a few days into the trip. We knew that we wanted to take it slow and ease into living in a van. I felt like it is also time to find a shower and relax a little bit, so I convinced Min that at the next place, we are going to…
Kellie and Min 