Presidents Day 2022

๋‚ ์”จ๋„ ํ™”์ฐฝํ•œ๋‚  ๊ธฐ๋ถ„๋„ ์ข‹๊ณ  ๋ฌด์—‡๋ณด๋‹ค๋„ ํœด์ผ์ด๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ ํ•ด์„œ ์ข€ ์Œ€์Œ€ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๋‚˜์„ฐ๋‹ค… ๋‚˜๋ฆ„ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด route๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์ฒ™ํ•ด๋ณธ๋‹ค๊ณ  520์„ ํƒ€๊ณ  ๊ฐ€๋‹ค๊ฐ€ Northup Way์—์„œ ๋‚˜์™€ Bel-Red์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์˜ค๋Š” ๊ธธ… ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ๋„ ๋ง›๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ๋จน๊ณ  ์ƒˆ๋กœ ์ƒ๊ธด ๋™๋„ค์˜ ๋‚จ ํšŒ์‚ฌ์บ ํผ์Šค๋„ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ ๋ณด๊ณ ..

However…. ๊ธฐ๋ณธ/๋ฏผ์งœ ์ž์ „๊ฑฐ์˜ ํ•œ๊ณ„์ธ๊ฐ€… ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋‹ค ๋Œ์•„์˜ฌ๋•Œ์ฆ˜ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ block ์–ธ๋•์„ ๋‚‘๋‚‘๋Œ€๋ฉฐ ์˜ฌ๋ผ์˜ค๋Š”๋ฐ ์ฒด์ธ์ด ์ดํƒˆํ•ด์„œ ์‹ฌ์ƒ์น˜ ์•Š๋„คํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค์‹œ ์žฅ์ฐฉํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ”๋Š”๋ฐ ์ข€ ๊ฐ€๋‹ค ํ……ํ……ํ•˜๋”๋‹ˆ “๋น ์‚ญ”๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ์ฒด์ธ์ด ๋‚ ๋ผ๊ฐ€์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค…๋ฌผ๋ก  ๋ฏผ์งœ๋ฅผ ์ž‘๋…„ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹ฌ์‹ฌ์ฐฎ๊ฒŒ ๊ตด๋ฆฌ๊ธด ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋งŒ ์•„์ง ์ด์ •๋„๋กœ…ToT

๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋‚ด ์ตœ์• ํ•˜๋Š” ๋™๋„ค ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ๋Š” ์ „ํ™”์ฃผ๋ฌธ๋งŒ ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์‹๋‹น์•ˆ์—์„œ ์‹์‚ฌํ•˜๋Š” ์†๋‹˜์„ ๋งž์•˜๊ณ , Meta๋Š” ๊ฑด๋ฌผ ๋ฐ–์—์„œ ์™€ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ถ€๋Ÿฌ์›Œํ•˜๋Š” ์ž์ „๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ํƒ„ ํ–‰์ธ์˜ ์‹œ์„ ์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์•„๋งˆ์กด๊ณผ ebay๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ ํ•œ๊ฑด์”ฉ ๋”ฐ๋‚ด์…จ๊ณ  YouTube๋Š” ์ž์ „๊ฑฐ ์ฒด์ธ ๊ต์ฒด ๊ด€๋ จ ์กฐํšŒ ์ˆ˜๋ฅผ ๋Š˜๋ ธ๋‹ค.. ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ฌด์—‡์„ ์–ป์—ˆ๋Š”๊ฐ€? ์ฒด์ธ ํ•จ ์–ด์ผ€ ํ•ด๋ณด๋ ค๋‹ค ์†๋งŒ ๋”๋ ตํžŒ๋“ฏ…:)

Fine Presidents day biking end up with broken chains – lucky it happened almost close to home but painful ๐Ÿ™‚ Anyhow, my favorite local burger shop finally had a visitor who actually made first in-dining visit after few phone orders before, Meta had envying eyes on its new building in Bellevue, eBay and Amazon had new orders, and YouTube had increase in traffic of searching for bike chain replacement.

and I end up having a dirty hand from broken chain inspection process ๐Ÿ™‚

2022.2

Sparrow’s Mill: In & Out

๋“œ๋””์–ด ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰๋‚ … Eugene to Home ํ˜ธํ…”์—์„œ ์•„์นจ๋จน๊ณ  ๋‚˜์˜จ์ง€ ํ•œ์‹œ๊ฐ„๋งŒ์— ๐Ÿ™‚ In N Out ์˜์ ‘…

๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์ง€๋‚˜์น ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋Š” ๊ณณ์„ “์ฐธ์ƒˆ๊ฐ€ ๋ฐฉ์•—๊ฐ„์„ ์ง€๋‚˜์น ์ˆ˜ ์—†๋‹ค”๋กœ ์• ๋“คํ•œํ…Œ ์„ค๋ช…ํ•˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€….The sparrows cannot skip the mill ๐Ÿ™‚ ํ•œํŽธ ์ด์ œ๋Š” ๋ฐฉ์•—๊ฐ„๋“ค์ด Oregon์—๋„ ์ƒ๊ฒจ์„œ ๊ตฌ์ง€ ๊ผญ California์—์„œ ๋ฐฉ์•—๊ฐ„์„ ๋“ค๋ฆฌ์ง€ ์•Š์•„๋„ ๋˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.. ๐Ÿ™‚

์–ผ๋  ๋ฐฉ์•—๊ฐ„์ด Portland๊ถŒ์—๋„ ์ƒ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ๊ณง Washington์—๋„ ์ƒ๊ธฐ๊ธธ ๊ธฐ์›ํ•œ๋‹ค. (๋ฒŒ์จ ๋ช‡๋…„์งธ์ธ์ง€ Seattle์— In N Out์ƒ๊ธด๋‹ค๋Š” ๋งŒ์šฐ์ ˆ ๊ธฐ์‚ฌ ์ด์   ์ง€๊ฒน๋‹ค..ใ…Žใ…Ž)

Now we have the good luxury of stopping In N Out at Oregon ๐Ÿ™‚ so our must stop advanced north..

2021.12

Las Vegas Strip and GR Burger

์Šฌํ”ˆ๊ฑด์ง€ ๋‹น์—ฐํ•œ๊ฑด์ง€… 8๋ฐ•9์ผ๊ฐ„ ๋‚˜๋ฆ„ distancingํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์—ฌํ–‰ํ•œ๋‹ต์‹œ๊ณ  ์ž์ฐจ๋กœ ์‚ฐ๋„˜์–ด ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๊ณ  ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ ์“ฐ๊ณ  ์‚ฝ์งˆํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋‹ค๋‹Œ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์ง‘ ์‹๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ์ œ์ผ ๊ธฐ์–ต์— ๋‚จ๋Š”๊ฑด ์˜๊ตญ ์š•์Ÿ์ด ์•„์žฌ์˜ ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ๋ž€๋‹ค.. ๐Ÿ™‚

๋ญ ๋ง›์€ ์ข‹์€๊ฑด ๋‚˜๋„ ์ธ์ •ํ•˜๊ธด ํ•œ๋‹ค๋งŒ…

At the end, all the kids remember from this trip is Gordon Ramsay’s Burger… I anticipated and also somewhat hoped the fantasy built during last trip with this burger broke with this visit but end up reinforcing/confirming it. ๐Ÿ˜€

2021.12

Alaska 431: Los Angeles to Seattle – Back to Home or Rain

Santa Monica Beach๊ตฌ๊ฒฝํ•˜๊ณ  ๋Œ์•„์˜ค๋Š” ๊ธธ Costco์—์„œ ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„๋„ฃ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์—„์ฒญ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ , In N Out ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ ๋จน๋Š”๋ฐ ์—„์ฒญ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฐ ํƒ“์— ๊ณตํ•ญ์— ๋Šฆ์–ด์ ธ์„œ Rental Car Return๊ธธ๋„ ์ž˜๋ชป๋“ค๊ณ  LAXํ•œ๋ฐ”ํ€ด๋ฅผ ๊ด‘์†์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ  ์‹ธ๋“ค๊ณ  ๋‚˜์˜จ ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ Rental Car Shuttle๋ถ€ํ„ฐ LAX ํƒ‘์Šน gate์•ž๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ธฐํšŒ ๋‚ ๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ์šฐ๊ฑฑ์šฐ๊ฑฑ ๋จน์–ด์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค.. (๋ฐ˜์ฏค ๋จน์€ ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ Xray๋„ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์ฐ์–ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ …. ๊ฒŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋จน์„๋•Œ๋งˆ๋‹ค ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ ๋‚ด๋ ธ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ์˜ฌ๋ ธ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋‹ˆ ๋” ๋ฒˆ๊ฑฐ๋กœ์›€..ใ…Žใ…Ž..)

ํ•ญ์ƒ ๊ทธ๋ ‡๋“ฏ California๋Š” ์žˆ์„๋•Œ๋Š” ์™€ ํ•˜๊ณ , ๋Œ์•„์˜ฌ๋• ์•„ ์งœ์ฆ ์ด๋Ÿฌ๋‹ค๊ฐ€… Seattle์— ๋Œ์•„์™€ ๊ณตํ•ญ ๋ฐ–์˜ ๊ณต๊ธฐ ํ•œ์ˆจ ๋งˆ์‹œ๋ฉด ์•„์‰ฌ์šด ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง„๋‹ค… ์žˆ์„๋• ์•„ ๋‚ ์”จ ๋ถ€๋Ÿฝ๋ถ€๋Ÿฝ ํ–‡๋น› ๋ถ€๋Ÿฝ๋ถ€๋Ÿฝ์ธ๋ฐ ๋Œ์•„์˜ค๋ฉด ๊ณต๊ธฐ์ข‹๊ณ  ์ด‰์ด‰ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹œ์›ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ข‹๋‹ค… ๐Ÿ™‚

Travel to California always bring series of mood changes from weather – first, get excited and envying, then gets into jealous minds, but those moods always disappear immediately after the first step outside of Seatac airport. ๐Ÿ™‚ I love the moist and crisp air in Seattle! ๐Ÿ™‚

2021.11

520 Trail

Real first bike trailing last week after setting up cycling basics – all calories burned during 3 hours of biking burned recouped with Five Guys…

์šฐ๋ฆฌ์ง‘ ๊ผฌ๋งน์ด๊ตฐ๊ณผ ๋‚˜๋ฆ„ ์ž์ „๊ฑฐ ์žฅ๋งŒํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฒซ๋ฒˆ์งธ๋กœ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ž์ „๊ฑฐ ํŠธ๋ ˆ์ผ์„ ํƒ”๋‹ค.. ์ด๋ฆ„ํ•˜์—ฌ 520 Trail – 520๋ฒˆ ๊ณ ์†๋„๋กœ๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋†“์€ ์ž์ „๊ฑฐ๊ธธ์ธ๋ฐ ๋์—†๋Š” ์—…ํž๊ณผ ๋‹ค์šดํž์˜ ์—ฐ์†์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์—” Lake Washington์„ ๊ฑด๋„ˆ ์‹œ์• ํ‹€๊นŒ์ง€ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธธ.. ํž˜๊ฒน๊ฒŒ ํƒœ์šด ์นผ๋กœ๋ฆฌ ์ง‘์— ์˜ค๋Š”๊ธธ์— ๋‹ค์„ฏ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ์—์„œ ์•„์ฃผ ๊ฐ€๋ณ๊ฒŒ ๋ณด์ถฉํ•ด ์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค..

2021.8

In-N-Out at Eureka, California

๋ญ ์†”์งํžˆ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์—ฌํ–‰์ง€๋กœ ์ •ํ•œ ์ด์œ ์ค‘ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ์ด๊ฑฐ์˜€๋‹ค๊ณ ๋„ ๋ถ€์ •๋ชปํ•œ๋‹ค… ์„œ์šธ์—์„œ ์ด ๋ง›์„ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์›Œํ•  ๋™์ง€๋“ค ์˜๋ฆฌ… ๋‚˜๋„ ์ด๊ฑฐ ๋จน๊ธฐ ๊ฒ๋‚˜ ํž˜๋“ค๋‹ค…ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž (๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ด๊ฑด ๋‹จ์ง€ ์‹œ์ž‘์ด์—ˆ์„๋ถ„..์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ•„๋‘๋กœ ์˜ค๋ ˆ๊ณค์—์„œ ๋‘๋ฒˆ ๋” ๋จน์€๊ฑด ๋น„๋ฐ€..) Drive Thru๊ฐ€ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ค„์ด ๊ธธ๋‹ค๋Š” ํ•‘๊ณ„๋กœ ๋ง์„ค์˜€๋˜ ์‹ค๋‚ด ์ทจ์‹… ๊ฐ€๋ฟํžˆ ๋ง˜ํŽธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋จน๊ณ  ์ •๋ง ์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์— ์‹ค๋‚ด์—์„œ ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ ๋จน์—ˆ๋‹ค.. Washington์— ์‚ด๋ฉด์„œ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ๋ฐ ๋ถ€๋Ÿฌ์šด๊ฑด ๋ณ„๋กœ ์—†๋Š”๋ฐ ๋”ฑ ๋ถ€๋Ÿฌ์šด ๋™๋„ค ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” In-N-Out์ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๋™๋„ค…ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž

Well you drove crazy miles for travel – so why miss this opportunity?

2021.4

Korean-Style Fried Chickโ€™n from Shake Shack

์–‘๋…์น˜ํ‚จ๋ง› ์น˜ํ‚จ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ from ์‰‘์‰‘… – ๋ฐฑ๊น€์น˜๋ฅผ slaw๋กœ ๋„ฃ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์ข€๋” ๋„ฃ์–ด๋„ ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์„๊นŒ ์‹ถ์€ ๋А๋‚Œ๋„ ๋“ฌ.. ๋ญ ์น˜ํ‚จ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ ํŒจํ‹ฐ๋ฅผ ์‚ด์ง ํŠ€๊ธฐ๊ณ  ํ•œ๊ตญ์‹ ์–‘๋… ์น˜ํ‚จ ์†Œ์Šค๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๋ผ์„œ ์™„์„ฑ… ๋‚˜์˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์€๋ฐ ์‰‘์‰‘์—์„œ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์Šค๋ชจํ‚คํ•œ ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋ง›์€ ์ด ๋ ˆ์„œํ”ผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“ค์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์—†์œผ๋‹ˆ ์•ฝ๊ฐ„ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์™€ ์ž˜ ๋งž์ง€ ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ ๋‚˜์˜์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค.. ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๋š๋”ฑ ๋จน๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋‹ˆ ์ฐจ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์–‘๋…์น˜ํ‚จ์„ ํŒ”์•„๋ณด์‹ฌ ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒ๋ž€ ์ƒ๊ฐ๋„… ๐Ÿ™‚

Korean Fried Chicken burger from Shake Shack – burger includes (White) Kimchi slaw – this burger triggered my craving for KFC more..

2021.4

Wibbley’s

ํšŒ์‚ฌ์˜†ํŒ€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ์ถ”์ฒœํ•ด์ค˜์„œ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋ฏฟ๊ณ  ์ฃผ๋ฌธํ•ด๋ดค๋Š”๋ฐ ๋ฒจ๋ทฐ์—๋„ ์ด๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ.. ๊ธ‰์˜ ์ˆจ๊ฒจ์ง„ ๋ณด์„๊ธ‰ ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐํ•˜์šฐ์Šค๋‹ค..ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž ํญํ’ํก์ž…๊ด€๊ณ„๋กœ ์‚ฌ์ง„์€ ๋ด‰ํˆฌ๋งŒ..ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž

Wow another jewel burger shop/joint find – thanks to team’s meal place sharing ๐Ÿ™‚ Loved their Teriyaki burger.. ๐Ÿ™‚ but only have a pic of their bag – disappeared too fast before I grabbed my phone

Voted Best Burgers in Bellevue WA : Wibbley’s (wibbleys.com)

2021.2

Tipsy Cow Burger Bar

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First attempt to eat out after the day before lockdown.. – and luckily this was right after the phase 2 was initialed and before the BLM movement/Memorial day started; so before the “resurge” – ate at outside bench, tasted great, but felt nervous as hell ๐Ÿ˜ฆ as there are lots of people walking around (and obviously not everyone is taking masks) and had to take the my mask off while eating.. so personally decided that I am not mentally ready to pretend to be back to normal ..

At the end, I wondered whether we can go back to old days of eating without any fear..

์ง€๋‚œ๋‹ฌ๋ง ๋ช‡ ๋‹ฌ๋งŒ์— ๋ด‰์‡„๊ฐ€ ์ผ๋ถ€ ์™„ํ™”๋œ ์ดํ›„ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์กฑ๋“ค๊ณผ ํ•œ ์™ธ์‹… ์ด๋•Œ๋งŒ ํ•ด๋„ ์žฌ์ฐฝ๊ถํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ด์ „์ด๋ผ (George Floyd/BLM ๋ฐ Memorial Day ์ด์ „) ์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์— ๋ง›์žˆ๋Š” ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐํก์ž…ํ•ด ์ฃผ๋Ÿฌ ๋‚˜์ผ๋Š”๋ฐ…

์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ ์•ˆ์“ฐ๊ณ  ๋‹ค๋‹ˆ๋Š” ์ธ๊ฐ„๋“ค ๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ๊ฐ€ ์ž…์œผ๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ”๋Š”์ง€ ์–ด๋””๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ”๋Š”์ง€ ๊ธฐ์–ต์ด ์ž˜ ๋‚˜์ง€ ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค.. ์–ธ์ œ์ฏค ๋งˆ์Œ์˜ ์—ฌ์œ ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์ผ์ƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐˆ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„๊นŒ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•˜๋‹ค…

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