Southern tip of Taiwan. Our last road trip through the West coast of United States seemed like forever ago. This time, we are driving 2 cars with mom, dad, Tony, Kelly, aunt, grandma, and aunt’s friend (who she is opening the vegetarian restaurant with). We drove from KaoXiong down to KenTing and we are staying …
For our November mini vacation we ventured deep into the Olympic Pennisula to Lake Quinault. This is a Native American lake nestled on the foothill of the Olympic National Park and its glorious Olympic National Forest. The lake receives its main inflow of water from the Quinault River with the surface elevation of 190 feet. …
Day 13-14 Mt. Shasta, CA -> Astoria, OR -> Seattle, WA As the adventure comes to the end, we traveled northward to Oregon on US-101 along the beautiful Northwest coastline. We stopped several viewpoints along the highway, and thankfully the weather was more than cooperating. We stopped by the Nelscott Beach to enjoy the sun, …
Day 11-13 San Francisco and Mt. Shasta Moving along the the West coast north bound, we come to the city that ranked 44th in the top tourist destinations in the world- San Francisco also known as the City by the Bay. After a very scrumptious brunch with mom’s former co-worker and his wife in Sacremento, …
Day 8-10 Yosemite National Park “It is by far the grandest of all the special temples of Nature I was ever permitted to enter” – John Muir Yosemite National Park is one of the greatest treasures of the World. The park spans 1,169 square miles to hundreds of wildlife species and thousands of Yosemite plants. …
Day 6-7 Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Park California is famous for its mild weather, the sunny beach, and it had been exactly that for the first few days of this trip. However, everything changed when we started to drive East into the mountains into the Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Park. I first heard …
Duration: 14 days Calculated Distance: 1,166 miles Actual Diantance Traveled: 2,222 miles Regular Participants: Eric Papa, Nancy Mama, Selina. Occasional Extras: Theresa the landlady, Auntie Grace, and an old classmate of Papa. Locations: Irvine, CA; San Diego Safari Zoo, CA; Huntington Beach, CA; Sequoia National Park, CA; Yosemite National Park, CA; Mt Shasta, CA; Lincoln …
The above picture is the gorgeous Columbia River Gorge on Highway 84! As you can clearly see, we visited on an amazing weekend, there was not a cloud in the sky and the temperature was hovering around 75s on both days. Ahh, God is good to us! My amazing husband negotiate a deal with his …