Las Vegas Strip

๋‚ด์ฐจ๋กœ Las Vegas๋ฅผ ๋Œ์•„๋‹ค๋‹Œ ์ƒ‰๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๊ฒฝํ—˜… ๐Ÿ™‚ ์ƒ๊ณ„ํ˜• ์ƒํ™œ์ธ๋‹ต๊ฒŒ ์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ํฌ์ธํŠธ๋กœ ๋ชจ์€ Strip๋ถ์ชฝ Las Vegas Convention Center ๊ฑด๋„ˆํŽธ ๋ถ์ชฝ๋™๋„ค์— ์ƒˆ๋กœ์—ฐ Hilton ํ˜ธํ…”์—์„œ ํˆฌ์ˆ™ํ•ด์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค… ๐Ÿ™‚

ํ•œํŽธ ๋‚ ์ด ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ์ด๋ธŒ์ธ์ง€๋ผ ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ Youtube๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ํ•™์Šตํ•ด ๋†“์€ ์‹๋‹น์€ ์–ด๋”œ ๊ฐ€๋„ ๋งŒ์›์— No Walk-In… ๋ญ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋ฌด์ œํ•œ ์Šค์‹œ ๋ถ€ํ๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•„ ๋ฐฐํ„ฐ์ง€๊ฒŒ ๋“œ์…”์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค..

Felt weird to drive my own car in Las Vegas ๐Ÿ™‚ Struggled a bit to do a walk in at some known spots for sushi buffet but found a good one. Finally at the end, enjoyed the good rest at new hotel – Hilton Resort World at Strip with full stomach ๐Ÿ™‚

2021.12

US-93 from Twin Falls to Las Vegas

The trickiest drive decision has to be made at early morning in Twin Falls, Idaho with inches of snow on the road. Shall I take I-15 to go south (with additional 2 hours) or test my luck to go straight south in snowy roads. One lucky thing was I end up following snow removal truck till Idaho-Nevada border (although had to go slow but safe enough :)) Entire drive started with snowy roads ended at sunny arrival at Las Vegas.

ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค ์ด๋ธŒ๋‚  ์•„์นจ Twin Falls ํ˜ธํ…”๋ฐฉ์—์„œ ๋ฐ–์„ ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ๋Œ€๋ฐ•.. ๋ˆˆ์ด ์—„์ฒญ ์Œ“์˜€๋‹ค..ํ‘… ์ดํ‹€๋™์•ˆ ๋ˆˆ์„ ํ”ผํ•œ ์‹ ๊ณต์ด ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—๋Š” ์ข…์„ ์นœ ๋งˆ๋‹น์ด์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ… ์ž ์‹œ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€ Nevada ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„์™€ I-80์„ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋Š” ์ง€์—ญ ์ค‘๊ฐ„์ฆˆ์Œ๊ฐ€๋ฉด ๋ˆˆ์ด ์—†์„๊ฑฐ๋ž€ ์˜ˆ๋ณด๋งŒ ๋ฐŽ๊ณ  ๋ˆˆ๊ธธ์— ์‚ฌํˆฌ๋ฅผ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜.. ๐Ÿ™‚ ์šด์ด ์ข‹๊ฒŒ๋„ Nevada๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๊นŒ์ง€๋Š” ์ œ์„ค์ฐจ ๋’ค๋ฅผ ์กธ์กธ ์ซ’์•„๊ฐ€์„œ -์†๋„๋Š” ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ๋ง์•„๋จน์—ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์•ˆ์ „ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ”๋‹ค.. ๐Ÿ™‚

๋ญ ๊ทธํ›„๋ก  ๋˜ ์šด๋นจ์ด ๋จนํ˜€์„œ.. ๐Ÿ™‚ ๋ˆˆ์€ ์—„์ฒญ ์Œ“์—ฌ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์ œ์„ค์€ ๋‹ค ๋œ Nevada์‚ฌ๋ง‰์„ ์ง€๋‚˜์˜ค๋ฉด์„œ (์ „๋‚  ํญ์„ค) ํ•œ๊ฒจ์šธ์—์„œ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด์„œ ํ–‡๋น›์จ์จ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋”ฐ๋•ƒํ•œ ๊ธธ์—์„œ ๊ธด ํ•˜๋ฃจ์˜ ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ๋งˆ์ณค๋‹ค.

(์•„์‰ฌ์šด๊ฑด Extraterrestrial Highway๊ฐ„ํŒ์„ ์ฐพ์•„๊ฐ”๊ฑด๋งŒ ๋ญ”์‚ฌ์—ฐ์ธ์ง€ ๊ทธ ๊ฐ„ํŒ์€ ์ฒ ๊ฑฐ…T.T)

2021.12

Deadman Pass, North East Oregon & Southern Idaho: I-84

๋ช‡๋…„์ „์— Utah๋กœ ๋†€๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐˆ๋•Œ์—๋„ ๊ฐ”๋˜ ๊ธธ์ด์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฒจ์šธ์—๋Š” ์ฒ˜์Œ์ด๊ณ  ์ด ๊ตฌ๊ฐ„์€ -ํŠนํžˆ ์˜ค๋ ˆ๊ณค์ชฝ์€- ๋ชจ๋‘ ๊ณ ์‚ฐ ์ง€์—ญ์˜ ๊ณ ์†๋„๋กœ๋ผ ๋ˆˆ๊ธธ์˜ ์œ„ํ—˜์ด ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋„์‚ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š”๊ณณ… ์‚ฌ์‹ค ์ด ๊ธธ์ด ์ œ์ผ ๋‚ ์”จ์— ๋ณ€๋™์ด ๋งŽ์€ ๊ธธ์ด๊ณ .. ๋Œ์•„๊ฐˆ๊ธธ์ด ๋งˆ๋•…์น˜ ์•Š์€ ๊ตฌ๊ฐ„์ด๋ผ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ตœ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ˆˆ์ด ์˜ค์ง€ ์•Š์„๋•Œ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€์•ผํ•˜๋Š” ๊ด€๊ณ„๋กœ ์ผ์ •์„ค๊ณ„์— ๋จธ๋ฆฌ์•„ํ”„๊ฒŒ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ตฌ๊ฐ„..ใ…Žใ…Ž

๋‘˜์งธ๋‚  ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ๊ธธ์— ์˜ฌ๋ผํƒ€์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค.. Kennewick์—์„œ ์ถœ๋ฐœํ•ด์„œ Oregon์„ ๋ถ๋™์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ด€ํ†ตํ•œ ์ดํ›„ Idaho์— ์™€์„œ Twin Falls๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ฐ€์ฃผ๋Š” ์—ฌ์ •.. Micron์œผ๋กœ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ Boise์— ๋“ค๋ ค์„œ ์ ์‹ฌ๋„ ๋จน๊ณ …์—ด์‹ฌํžˆ ๋‹ฌ๋ ธ๋‹ค.,ใ…Žใ…Ž

This -from Southeastern WA to Southern Idaho via Northeast Oregon was the most critical point for deciding the timing of travel -thanks to their elevation & snow activity- all safely passed without any snow – magically ๐Ÿ™‚

2021.12

Manastash Ridge & Kennewick

์ฒซ๋‚  ๋„˜์€ ๋‘๋ฒˆ์งธ ์‚ฐ๋งฅ… Yakima๋ฅผ ๊ด€ํ†ตํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค์Œ ๋ น์— ๋‹ค์Œ๋‚  ์•„์นจ์— ๊ทธ์นœ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ˆˆ์„ ํ”ผํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  Manhattan Project๋™๋„ค Kennewick์—์„œ (์˜ˆ์ •์— ์—†๋˜) ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ๋‹ค..

์‚ฌ๋ง‰ ์‚ฐ์— ๋ˆˆ์ด ๋ฎ์ด๊ธฐ ์žฅ๊ฒฝ์ด ํŽผ์ณ์กŒ๊ณ  ๋Œ€๊ฐ์„ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฐ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋กœ 4์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์ด ๋‹ฌ๋ ธ์–ด๋„ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ Washington์„ ๋ชป๋– ๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Never imagined how things will look once the desert mountains get snow coating

2021.12

Snoqualmie Pass

Even after living in Seattle metro for almost 15 years, passing I-90 Snoqualmie Pass in winter has always been a picturesque thing, thrill, & sometimes a drama ๐Ÿ™‚

This time, waiting for temporary pass closure in snow due to multiple prior crashes was a good thrill/nerve test. ๐Ÿ™‚

์‚ฌ๋Š” ๋™๋„ค๊ฐ€ ๊ฒจ์šธ์— ์ถฅ์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ์‚ฐ์ด ํ•ญ์ƒ ์„ค์‚ฐ์ด ๋˜๋Š” ๋™๋„ค์—์„œ ์‚ฐ์ง€๋„ 15๋…„์ด ๋˜์–ด๊ฐ€๊ฑด๋งŒ ์ด “๋ น”์„ ์ฐจ๋กœ ๋„˜๋Š”๊ฑด ํ•ญ์ƒ ์‚ด๋–จ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋‹ด๋˜๋Š” ์ผ์ด๋‹ค. ์•„์ด๋“ค์˜ ๊ฒจ์šธ๋ฐฉํ•™์„ ๋งž์ดํ•˜์—ฌ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์— ํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ•œ ๊ฐ€์กฑ ์—ฌํ–‰์„ ๊ฒจ์šธ์— 4๋ฅœ๋„ ์•„๋‹Œ ์ฐจ๋กœ (๋ฉ์น˜ํฐ ์ „๋ฅœ์— ๊ฒจ์šธ์— ์• ์šฉํ•˜๋Š” ํƒ€์ด์–ด์šฉ ‘์–‘๋ง’ ์กฐํ•ฉ) ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋ชจํ—˜์œผ๋กœ ์‹œ๋„ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์›๋ž˜ ์ถœ๋ฐœํ•˜๋ ค๋˜ ๋‚  ํฐ ๊ทœ๋ชจ์˜ ‘๋ น’์„ 3๊ฐœ์ •๋„ ๋ŒํŒŒํ•ด์•ผํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ทธ ์ค‘ ๋‘๊ฐœ ์‚ฐ์†์— ๋Œ€์„ค ์˜ˆ๋ณด๊ฐ€ ๋œฌ ๋ฐ˜๋ฉด ๊ทธ ์ „๋‚ ์—๋Š” ๋ˆˆ์˜ˆ๋ณด๊ฐ€ ์ƒ๋Œ€์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์—†๋˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋กœ ๋ถ€๋žด๋ถ€๋žด ์ผ์ •์„ ๋ฐ˜๋‚˜์ ˆ ๋•ก๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ๊ธฐ์ฐฉ์ง€๋ฅผ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ด 8๋ฐ•9์ผ 5๊ฐœ์ฃผ 3000๋งˆ์ผ+ ๊ฒจ์šธ ๋กœ๋“œ ํŠธ๋ฆฝ์ด ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. (๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๋‚  ์ดํ›„๋กœ ์‹œ์• ํ‹€์€ ๋ช‡์‹ญ๋…„๋งŒ์— ํ•œํŒŒ์— ํญ์„ค..ใ…Žใ…Ž)

๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ํ•ด์ง€๊ธฐ์ „์— (์—ฌ๊ธด ์œ„๋„๊ฐ€ ๋†’์•„ ๊ฒจ์šธ์— ํ•ด๋„ ์—„์ฒญ ์งง๋‹ค..๊ฒŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ํ•˜ํ•„ ์ถœ๋ฐœ์ผ์ด ๋™์ง“๋‚ ..ใ…Žใ…Ž) ํฐ ์‚ฐ๋งฅ 2๊ฐœ ์ •๋„ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€์ฃผ์…จ๊ณ  ์œ„ ์‚ฌ์ง„์€ ์ฒซ๋ฒˆ์งธ ๊ด€๋ฌธ์ธ Snoqualmie Pass – ํ•˜ํ•„ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ์ถœ๋ฐœํ•  ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ์‚ฌ๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ๋‚˜์„œ ํ•œ 30๋ถ„ ์‚ฐ์—์„œ ๋Œ€๊ธฐ…ใ…Žใ…Ž

http://oss.weathershare.org/ ๊ฐ€ ์•„์ฃผ ์œ ์šฉํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋„์›€์ด ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค..๊ฒจ์šธ์— ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์žฅ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์šด์ „ํ•˜๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ๊ผญ ์ด๊ฑธ ๋ถ๋งˆํฌํ•˜์‹œ๊ณ  ์ž์ฃผ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๋Š”๊ฑธ ๊ฐ•์ถ”.. (๋ณดํ†ต ์ฃผ ๊ตํ†ต์ฒญ์—์„œ ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋„๋กœ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์•ผ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ฉด ์ด๊ฑฐ๋งŒํ•œ๊ฒŒ ์—†๋‹ค..)

2021.12

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Long story short without any spoiler – Walked into the theater without single word of knowledge but absolutely a great movie and must see.

Maybe one personal factor – watching Spiderman series had always been a stone in my stomach for years (because of ….) but now I am totally free from that.. ๐Ÿ™‚

๊ธด๋ง ํ•„์š”์—†๋‹ค – ์•„๋ฌด๊ฒƒ๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ณ  ์˜ํ™”๊ด€์— ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ”๋Š”๋ฐ…. ๊ผญ ๋ณด์„ธ์š”๋“ค!!

(ํ•œํŽธ ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋ถˆํŽธํ•œ ๋งˆ์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด๋˜ ์ŠคํŒŒ์ด๋”๋งจ์„ ๋ถ€๋‹ด 1๋„ ์—†์ด ๋ด์„œ ๋” ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์› ๋Š”์ง€๋„…ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž)

2021.12

Ezellโ€™s Famous Chicken – Has been a while…

Another pandemic WFH day, another to-go lunch. ๐Ÿ™‚ This fried chicken has been a while and now I started to wonder what I haven’t tried so far at home ๐Ÿ™‚

Well actually this is another left-over finishing lunch. ๐Ÿ˜‰ helping me to enjoy the ‘cleaning’ feeling.

Ezell’s has been a good local southern style fried chicken for years – however, thanks to the ‘level up’ of fried chicken from Chick-Fil-A driven Chicken Burger wars across franchises and wave of Korean Fried Chicken in recent years, the tastiness of this chicken seems to diminishing ๐Ÿ™‚

์ด์ œ ๊ฑฐ์˜ 2๋…„์งธ ์žฌํƒ๊ทผ๋ฌด ๋Œ์ž…ํ•œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ…. ์ดˆ๋ฐ˜์—๋Š” ๊ทธ๋‚˜๋งˆ ๋ฐ”๊นฅ๋ฐ”๋žŒ ์ฌ๋ ค๊ณ  ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์ €๊ธฐ ํˆฌ๊ณ ๋ฅผ ๋‹ค๋…”๋‹ค๊ฐ€.. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์ผ์ผ์ด ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•˜๊ธฐ๋„ ๊ท€์ฐฎ์•„์ง€๊ณ  ๋ฐ”์˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ  (์• ๋“ค๋„ ํ•™๊ต์— ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ด€๊ณ„๋กœ ์ง‘์— ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋„ ์ ๊ณ ..)ํ•ด์„œ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์ง‘์—์„œ ๋จน๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์Šคํ‚ต…ใ…‹ใ…‹

๋ญ ํ•œํŽธ ์ ์‹ฌ์— ์ „๋‚  ๋จน๊ณ  ๋‚จ์€ ์Œ์‹ ์ฐพ์•„ ๋ƒ‰์žฅ๊ณ  ๋’ค์ง€์„œ ํ•ด์น˜์šฐ๋ฉด์„œ ๋ฟŒ๋“ฃํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ์žฌ๋ฏธ๋„ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์ƒ๊ฒผ๋‹ค..ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž Ezell ์น˜ํ‚จ๋„ ๋จน์–ด๋ณธ์ง€ ๋ช‡๋…„๋งŒ์ธ๋ฐ…๋‚˜๋ฆ„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ Southern ์Šคํƒ€์ผ์„ ๋™๋„ค์—์„œ ํŒŒ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ์ธ๋ฐ… ์ด์ œ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ๋„ ํ”„๋ผ์ด๋“œ ์น˜ํ‚จ์˜ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ€์„œ์ธ์ง€ (์น™ํ•„๋ ˆ๋ฅผ ํ•„๋‘๋กœํ•œ ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ Fastfood๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ๋“ค์˜ ์น˜ํ‚จ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ ์ „์Ÿ๊ณผ ํ•œ๊ตญ์‹ ์น˜ํ‚จ์„ ํŒŒ๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ๋“ค์˜ ํ˜ํ˜ํ•œ ๊ณต์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ณธ๋‹ค…) ๋ญ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋จน๋Š”๊ฑด ๋˜ ํ•œ์ฐธํ›„๊ฐ€ ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์„๊นŒ ์‹ถ๋‹ค..ใ…Žใ…Ž

2021.12