Tag / Travel

Melody and I planned to snowshoe more this season, but our plans were foiled and we were only able to go out one time. Maybe next year will give us a little more time and weather to head out again. I wanted to hike around the San Jacinto area in Palm Springs as a little [...]

Melody and I have had a pretty crazy transition between our three years together. It started off with an internship at Air Products in Los Angeles, which turned into a two year long distance relationship. I was fortunate enough to be accepted to the University of Southern California to close that gap between us. I [...]

I’ve been dying to visit more places around California, especially the National Parks. The diversity of land around the state is fascinating, with deserts, mountains, and the ocean. I was completely amazed Mono Lake, and the images that people have taken while visiting there so I decided to plan a last minute trip down to [...]

Last August I planned a trip with Melody and Sarah to backpack to the top of the San Gorgonio Mountain – the highest peak in Southern California at 11,503 feet. We didn’t really want to rush the roughly 23 mile hike in one day, so we decided to set up camp at Dry Lake prior [...]

During the summer I had a lot of hikes planned in order to get ready for a potential Whitney backpacking trip that never happened. But the hikes prior to that were still amazing and probably higher on my list of places to go. This time around we went to the bridge to nowhere suggested by [...]

A group of friends decided to go hike up Mt. Baldy back in June to train either for Mt Whitney or a Macchu Picchu backpacking adventure. It’s great to see that Southern California has strenuous hikes to help train for these crazy adventures, also there is in fact large altitude changes for all these mountains. [...]

Another day trip prior to Mitchell’s wedding was to visit Afui in her hometown of Hsin Chu. We didn’t know what to expect there, especially since it wasn’t a place I planned on visiting, but all of the cities in Taiwan were unique and fun. We first went to a little night market to get [...]

I’ve been wanting to visit Yehliu, with its unique rock structures, since my last visit to Taiwan. I feel like I still have so much to discover on this little tropical island. There is too much beauty and history, which I also believe to be true in the United States. Nature is always there, keeping [...]

One of our day trips in Taiwan was to visit Tainaan, which is where Melody’s grandmother lives. I was pretty excited see different stuff, since its harder to explore with your own family. The first thing we did was jump onto a High Speed rail which took what felt like an hour from Taipei to [...]

Right after my PhD screening exam, I had a trip planned to visit Taiwan for Melody’s brother’s wedding. I was definitely ready to take my week break from work and stress, but wasn’t excited about the 15 hour difference between Taiwan and Los Angeles. I arrived in Taoyuan International Airport around 9pm Taiwan time and [...]