Soaking in Natural Hot Springs [Part IV]

San Antonio Hot Springs This one is by far the best natural hot springs we had been to, the best and also the last hot springs we visited on our 5-month road trip. It is located in the San Antonio Mountains, about 2.5 hours north of Albuquerque, New Mexico. From researching on the web, you…

Backpacking in Havasupai

I am sure you had seen pictures of this place somewhere on the Web and Instagram. This place had become very popular from being shared and re-shared on social media over the past few years. That is also how I first learned of this place too. Blue-green water rushing down a tall waterfall into a…

Bryce Canyon National Park

I’ve been wanting to finish writing up our times in Utah since the Zion one, but it is a bit harder to find time and the right mood to write now. Getting back to the real life has been good, but it also cut down much of my time in other things I used to do…

Zion National Park

“Where is your favorite place in the states?” People often ask us. It’s quite easy for me pick a place out of all. No, actually there are two states. They would be Utah and New Mexico! I think I pick these two because we got to spend a week or so there, which is a…

Soaking in Natural Hot Springs [Part III]

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…

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…