Recently I have established a routine in the evenings to walk for an hour around my apartment complex or on the treadmill, this was the result of Ri-being-too-tired-to-take-me-to-the-gym and I-found-out-I’ve-gained-10-pounds-since-the-wedding. I decided I can’t just take a passive role in determining my own exercise routine, so if I can’t run (because of my RA) or …
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 …
There is this game that Ri and I play when we are bored, we try to make up a random story alternating making up sentence by sentence. This is what happened tonight. Selina: “Once upon a time, there is a bear who walks into the forest…” Ri: ” then he heard a tree fell, but …
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 …
Spring is coming! How do I know? I know because my cat is turning color! Yes, literally, not figuratively. I’ve always known Belka is part chameleon because he is silver in the Winter and brown in the Summer. Just in case you are wondering, no, not the whole cat is turning in color, it’s …
It has only been 2 days since our wedding, already some memories are fading, so I thought to take this time and write down some of the things I remember just so I will always remember them even in the years to come. The first thing I want to remember forever is that everything …
Ri and I had an argument today, a rather big one, during our weekly video chat. I guess tension had built up over the course of these few weeks since he’s changed job and hence work schedule, and we don’t talk as often as we did. His fancy new job requires him to get up …
Taiwan time 4:26pm Seattle time 1:26am Bull frog chirped on my phone, another email notification or a Facebook message notification, but the latter is so rare that I normally just associate ribbit sounds to another email. I refreshed my Gmail account page on the laptop, no new unread email. Hum. I guess it is a …
It has been 3 days since I got back to Taiwan. Leaving this time around was still hard, but it was comparatively easier than the previous time. Somehow the thought of ‘the next time we see each other, we don’t have to be parted again’ sustained me through the dreadful 18-hour journey. Considering the …