Seattle or Bust Aug 2026: Santa Clarita, California

์–ด์ œ ๋ฐค ์ €๋…์‹์‚ฌํ›„ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์ •๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ•˜๊ณ  ํฐ๋ถ„์„ ๊ธฐ์ˆ™์‚ฌ์— ๋ชจ์‹œ๊ณ  ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์ถœ๋ฐœ.. ์•ฝ ํ•œ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋ถ์ง„ํ•˜์—ฌ Magic Mountain์•ž ํ˜ผํ…”์—์„œ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ์‰ฌ๊ณ  ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ถœ๋ฐœํ•˜์˜€๋Š”๋ฐ….(์ด ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง„ ์•„์ฃผ๋ฃฐ๋ฃจ๋ž„๋ผ์˜€๋‹ค…ใ…Žใ…Ž)

Parted with son at night and restarted the “bust” journey back to home and called the night at Santa Clarita near Magic Mountain.

Things were looking great till….:)

2026.8

Los Angeles Koreatown

๋ชจ๋“  unpack and settling์„ ๋๋‚ธ ํ›„ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํฐ๋ถ„์„ ์นœ๋™์ƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์ฑ™๊ฒจ์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ณ ๋งˆ์šด ๋ถ„๋“ค ๋งŒ๋‚˜ ๋ง›๋‚œ ์ €๋… ๊ฐ™์ด ๋จน์—ˆ๋‹ค…

์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ผฌ๋งน์ด๊ตฐ๋“ค์ด ๊ผฌ๊ผฌ๋งน์ด ์‹œ์ ˆ ๊ณ ๊ธฐ์ง‘์— ์™€์„œ 1์ธ 1๋ผ๋ฉด์„ ์‹œ์ „ํ–ˆ๋˜ ใ…‡ใ„ฑใ…†ใ„ฑใ…Š….๊ทผ๋ฐ ์™œ์ด๋ฆ„ํ‘œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ….

์•„๋ฌด๋ž˜๋„ ์ด์ œ Koreatown์€ ์—ญ์„ค์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๋‚ด์—์„œ ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ด€๋ จ ์ธ๊ธฐ์™€ ์„ ํ˜ธ๊ฐ€ ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ€๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์ ์  ํ•œ๊ตญ์ƒ‰์ด ๋น ์ ธ๋‚˜๊ฐ„๋‹ค๋Š” ๋А๋‚Œ์ด ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋„ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋“ฏ ์‹ถ๋‹ค…(ํ•œ๊ตญ๋ง ๋ชปํ• ๋“ฏํ•œ ์ง์›์ด ์ ์  ๋งŽ์•„์ง….) ๋ญ ์–ด๋А Italian Restaurant ์ด๋“  ๋ฉ”๋‰ดํŒ ์‹์‚ฌ์ด๋ฆ„ ์ด์™ธ์—” ์ดํƒœ๋ฆฌ์–ด๊ฐ€ ์—†๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋ž‘ ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ€ ์—†์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๋“ฏ ์‹ถ๋‹ค..

์‚ฌ์‹ค ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด๋Š” ์Œ์„ฑ์–ธ์–ด์— ๋‰ด์•™์Šค๋กœ ๋œป์„ ์ „๋‹ฌํ•˜๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์žˆ์–ด ์ฐธ ์–ด๋ ค์šด ์–ธ์–ด์ด๊ธดํ•˜๋‹ค…:) ํ• ๋จธ๋‹ˆ๊ตญ๋ฐฅ์ด๋ž‘ vs ๋ผ์ง€๊ตญ๋ฐฅ… ์†Œ๊ณฑ์ฐฝ vs ์•„๊ฐ€์”จ๊ณฑ์ฐฝ…ใ…‹ใ…‹ ํ˜ธ๋Ÿฌ์™€ ์ •๊ฐ์€ ๋ง๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ํ•œ๋์ฐจ์ด์ธ๋“ฏ…ใ…Žใ…Ž

2026.8

University of Southern California Aug 2026

๋ฉ‹์ง„ ๊ณจํ”„ํด๋Ÿฝ์„ ๋’ค๋กœํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๊ตฌ๋งคํ•œ ๋ฌผ๊ฑด๋“ค๋“ค๊ณ  ํ•™๊ต๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์™€ ์•„๋งˆ์กด ๋ฐฐ์†กํ•œ๊ฒƒ๋„ ํ”ฝ์—…ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ ์ž‘์—… ์‹œ์ž‘….

๋‹ค ๋๋‚ด๊ณ  ํƒ์†ก ์ฆ๋ช…์‚ฌ์ง„๋“ค ์ฐ์œผ๋Ÿฌ ํ•™๊ต ์‚ฐ์ฑ….. ๐Ÿ™‚ ์ด์ œ 2ํ•™๋…„๋„ ๋ฉ‹์ง€๊ฒŒ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด๋ณด์ž๊พธ๋‚˜…

Proof of deliveries ๐Ÿ™‚ Good Luck on your new school year!

2026.8

Aliso Viejo Country Club

์ด๋ฒˆ LA drop trip์˜ ์œ ์ผํ•œ ๊ฐœ์ธํœด์‹์‹œ๊ฐ„….:)

์„ ๋ฐฐ๋‹˜๊ป˜ ์ธ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋Ÿฌ ๊ฐ„๋‹ค๊ณ  ์—ฐ๋ฝ๋“œ๋ ธ๋”๋‹ˆ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์ด๋ผ ๋ฐ”์˜์‹  ์™€์ค‘์—๋„ ์šด์˜ํ•˜์‹œ๋Š” ๊ณจํ”„์žฅ์œผ๋กœ ์ดˆ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ตฌ๊ฒฝ์‹œ์ผœ์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค…

First time in private club ๐Ÿ™‚ Wow

2026.8

Fullerton, California

์•„์ฃผ ์–ด๋ ธ์„ ๋•Œ ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜์ด๋ž‘ ๋ถ€๋ชจ๋‹˜ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋Œ์— ์ฐพ์•„๊ฐ„ ๊ธฐ์–ต์ด ์žˆ๋Š” Fullerton ํ˜น์€ Anaheim๊ทผ๋ฐฉ์˜ Orange County๋™๋„ค๋“ค…๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์‡ผํ•‘์ฐจ ์ฝ”์ŠคํŠธ์ฝ”๋ฅผ ์ฐพ์•„๊ฐ€๋А๋ผ ๋Œ์•„๋‹ค๋…”๋‹ค..๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š”๋ฐ ์˜†์—๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์—”์ ค์Šค ์Šคํƒ€๋””์›€๋„…(์–ดํœด ๊น€ํ˜œ์„ฑ์€ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์—”์ ค์Šค๋ฅผ ๊ฐ”์–ด์•ผ…์ฉ…)

Driving and shopping around Fullerton and Orange County cities..

2026.8

Buena Park, California

Let’s say we traded crazy overnight parking fee at any hotel in LA plus hasstle of getting in and out of Korean marts in LA Korwatown and going to Costco nearby vs traffic & drive to Buena Park at Orange county ๐Ÿ™‚

Maybe this was one of the best decisions I made during this trip…

๋งค๋ฒˆ LA์‹œ๋‚ด์˜ ํ•™๊ต ๊ทผ๋ฐฉ์˜ ํ˜ธํ…”๋น„+์ฃผ์ฐจ๋น„ ๊ณ„์‚ฐ์ด ์งœ์ฆ๋„ ๋‚˜๊ณ , ์–ด์ฐจํ”ผ ํ•œ๊ตญ๋งˆํŠธ์™€ ์ฝ”์ŠคํŠธ์ฝ”์—์„œ ์žฅ๋„ ๋ด์•ผํ•˜๋‹ˆ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์ฃผ์ฐจ๋น„๋ฅผ ์•ˆ๋ฐ›๋Š” Orange County์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ํ˜ธํ…”๋“ค์„ exploreํ•ด ๋ณผ๊ฒธ ์ฐพ์•„์˜จ Buena Park…

์™€์„œ ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์—ฌ๊ธด ์˜›๋‚ ์— ์• ๋“ค ๋ฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  Disneyland ๋Œ์•„๋‹ค๋‹ ๋•Œ ๋ฐฅ๋จน์œผ๋Ÿฌ ์˜ค๋˜ ๋™๋„ค๋‹ค…์ด๋ฆ„๋„ ์•„์ง๋„ ๊ธฐ์–ต๋‚˜๋Š” Beach Blouvard..:)

๋ญ ์ด ์ •๋„๋ฉด ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์ธ ๊ฑฐ๋ž˜(?)๊ฐ€ ๋œ๋“ฏ์‹ถ๋‹ค… ๋น„์Šทํ•œ ์ด์ˆ™๋ฐ•๋น„์šฉ์ด์ง€๋งŒ… ์žฅ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์šด์ „ ์—ฌํ–‰์— ์ž…๋ง› ๋–จ์–ด์ง„ ๋ฏธ๊ฐ์„ ๋‹ฌ๋ž˜์ค€ ํ•œ์‹ ๋ถ„์‹๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ๋„ ๊ฐ€๊ณ , ํ•œ์ธ๋งˆํŠธ๋„ ๋“œ๋‚˜๋“ค๊ธฐ ํŽธํ•˜๊ณ , ์ฝ”์ŠคํŠธ์ฝ”๋„ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜์— ์žˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ 30๋ถ„ ์ •๋„ ์šด์ „ ๋”ํ•œ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ํŽธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์ค€๋น„์™„๋ฃŒ…

2026.8

LA or Bust Aug 2026: Woodland, California to Los Angeles, California

ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ œ์ผ ํž˜๋“  ์ฒซ๋‚ ์„ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค์Œ๋‚  ์—ฌ์ • ์‹œ์ž‘…

๋™๋„ค ์•ฝ๊ตญ์— ๋“ค๋ ค ์•ฝ๋„ ์‚ฌ๊ณ , ์ „๋‚  ๋ฐค ๋น„์˜ค๋Š” ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋‚œ ๋ฒŒ๋ ˆ๋•Œ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ฒด๋กœ ๋ฒ”๋ฒ…์ด ๋œ ์•ž์œ ๋ฆฌ ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ์„ธ์ฐจ๋„ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ํ•ด์ฃผ๊ณ , ๊ฐœ์Šค๊ฐ€ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ์‹ธ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋กœ Davis๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋‚จ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์„ฐ๋‹ค…

์ด์ œ๋Š” ์˜ํ˜ผ์—†์ด ๋‹ฌ๋ ค์•ผ ํŽธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆด์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” I-5์˜ LA์™€ Sacramento ์‚ฌ์ด ๊ตฌ๊ฐ„์„ ์‘ค์šฑ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๊ณ …ํƒœํ˜„์ด์™€ ํƒœํ—Œ ๋ Œ์น˜์—์„œ ์ปคํ”ผํ•œ์ž” ๋งˆ์‹œ๊ณ  ๋ฐ˜์ฏค ๋ถˆํƒ„ ์‚ฐ์„ ๋„˜์–ด๊ฐ€๋‹ˆ LA์˜ ์•ผ์ž์ˆ˜๋“ค์ด ๋ฐ˜๊ฒจ์ฃผ์‹ ๋‹ค…

์˜ฌํ•ด ์•„์ด ๊ธฐ์ˆ™์‚ฌ ์•„ํŒŒํŠธ ์—ด์‡  ์ˆ˜๋ นํ›„ ๋ฃธ๋ฉ”์ดํŠธ์™€ ๊ทธ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋„ ๋งŒ๋‚˜ ์ธ์‚ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์ ธ์˜จ ์ง๋“ค ์ง‘์œผ๋กœ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ •๋ฆฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ถ”๊ฐ€๋กœ ํ•„์š”ํ•œ๊ฒƒ๋“ค listupํ•˜๋ฉฐ 1์ฐจ ์ด์‚ฌ ์™„๋ฃŒ..:)

Day2 started with visiting Walgreens and car wash due to crazy amount of bug hits, and quick hop over to Davis for cheaper gas ๐Ÿ™‚

After non-stop to Tejon Ranch, crowded city and palm trees world of Southern California started ๐Ÿ™‚

2026.8

LA or Bust Aug 2026: Bellevue, Washington to Woodland, California

์šฐ๋ฆฌ ํฐ๋ถ„ ๋Œ€ํ•™์ƒ์ด ๋˜์‹  ์ดํ›„ ์ฒซ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„๋ฐฉํ•™์„ ์‹œ์• ํ‹€(3์ฃผ๊ฐ„ ์„œ์šธ๋™๊ฒฝ ํฌํ•จ)์—์„œ ์ž˜ ๋ณด๋‚ด๊ณ  ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ƒˆํ•™๋…„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋˜์–ด ๋‹ค์‹œ ๊ธธ์— ๋‚˜์„ฐ๋‹ค…

์ง€๋‚œ๋ฒˆ์—” pickup์ด๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์ถœ๋ฐœ์„ ํ˜ผ์žํ•ด์•ผํ•˜๊ณ  ์ดˆํ–‰๊ธธ์ด์–ด์„œ ๊ธด์žฅ์„ ๋งŽ์ดํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ถœ๋ฐœํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์ด์   ๋‘๋ฒˆ์งธ์ด๊ณ  drop off์ด๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ํŽธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์ถœ๋ฐœํ–ˆ๋‹ค…

Portland์ง€๋‚˜ Roseburg์—์„œ ์ธ์•ค์•„์›ƒ ํ•จ๋“ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ  Medford์—์„œ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ํ™”์žฅ์‹ค break ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  Red Bluff์—์„œ ์•„์ด์Šคํฌ๋ฆผ ํ•จ๋จน๊ณ  ์„์–‘ ์˜†์„ ๋‹ฌ๋ ค ํ•ด๊ฐ€์ง€๋‹ˆ Sacramento ์ธ๊ทผ Woodland์— ๋„์ฐฉํ•ด์„œ 1๋ฐ•…

2026 Aug “Los Angeles or Bust” trips day 1 started with all I-5 South drive from home till Woodland, California.

2026.8

Microsoft Redmond New Campus

์‚ฌ์‹ค ์ƒˆ ์บ ํผ์Šค renovate๋˜๊ณ  ๋งค๋ฒˆ ๊ธธ์—์„œ ๋ฉ€๋ฆฌ ๋ณด๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ง€์ธ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋•์— ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋‚ด๋ถ€์— ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋ดค๋‹ค..ํŠนํžˆ ์ƒˆ๋กœ renovateํ•œ ๋™์ชฝ ์บ ํผ์Šค๋Š” ๊ณต์‚ฌ์žฅ๋งŒ ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ‡ด์‚ฌํ•œ์ง€๋ผ…

์•„์ง๋„ ๊ณต์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌํ•˜๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง„ ์ด๊ฒƒ์ €๊ฒƒ ๋‚จ์•„๋ณด์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด์ œ๋Š” ์–ด๋А์ƒˆ ๋‚ด ๊ธฐ์–ต ํ•œํŽธ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ์งœ์ฆ๋„ ์žˆ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์›€๋„ ๋‚จ์•„์žˆ๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ์Œ์„ ์ƒˆ์‚ผ ๊นจ๋‹ซ๊ณ  ๋‚˜์™”๋‹ค..

First visit to newly renovated (looks like still ongoing though) Microsoft’s Redmond East Campus..

Walking around the campus after 5 years reminded me lots of mixed feelings ๐Ÿ™‚

2026.8

Haitai Sand Ace Milk Cream ํ•ดํƒœ ์ƒŒ๋“œ ์—์ด์Šค ์šฐ์œ ํฌ๋ฆผ

๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์ง€๋‚˜์น ๋ ค๋‹ค ๋ชจ๊ต ๋งˆํฌ์— ํ”๋“ค๋ ค ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์ง‘์–ด๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค…0.4%๋„ฃ๊ณ  ํ•™๊ต ์ด๋ฆ„์„ ๋ถ™์ด๋‹ค๋‹ˆ…ใ…‹ใ…‹

Had to pick this one up after seeing my alma mater’s name and logo…:)

2026.8