Costco Gas at West Springfield, MA

Wow….Look at the price difference – Washington State, seriously? I am paying $1.5-$2 more per gallon at home… I think Washington State is stuck in vicious cycle of “More tax hike on fuel”-> “More EVs” -> “Less consumption/tax collection on fuel”

Massachusetts์— ์˜ค๋‹ˆ ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„๊ฐ’์ด ๋ฌผ๊ฐ’์ˆ˜์ค€…. Washington์ฃผ์˜ Costco๋ณด๋‹ค Gallon๋‹น ๋Œ€๋žต 1.5๋ถˆ์€ ์ €๋ ดํ•œ ๋“ฏํ•˜๋‹ค. ์•„์’ธ….ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž

2025.6

Lenox, MA and BU Tanglewood Institute

Massachusetts์™€ New York ์ฃผ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜์— ์žˆ๋Š” Lenox์— ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค. (์—ฌ๊ธด Albany๊ฐ€ Boston๋ณด๋‹ค๋„ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์šด ๋™๋„ค..) ์กฐ๊ทธ๋งฃ๊ณ  ์ด์œ ๋„์‹œ์ธ๋ฐ Boston Symphony์—์„œ Summer ์Œ์•… Festival๋„ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๊ณ  BU ์Œ๋Œ€์—์„œ ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ์บ ํ”„๋ผ๊ณ  ํ•ด์„œ ์„ ๋ฐœ๋„ ๋˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ๊ณ  ์ข‹์€ ๊ฒฝํ—˜๋˜๋ผ๊ณ  “๊ผฌ์ธ์ˆฒ ์Œ์•…ํ•™๊ต”์— ์ž‘์€ ๋ถ„์„ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ๋‹ค…

Checkin ๋„์™€์ฃผ๊ณ  2์ฃผํ›„์— ๋ณด์ž๋ž€ hugํ•ด์ฃผ๊ณ  ๋‚˜์™”๋‹ค (ํ—ˆ๋‚˜ ๋‹ค์Œ๋‚  ์•„์นจ ๊ณตํ•ญ๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ์ „์— ์„ ํ’๊ธฐ ์‚ฌ ๋“ค๊ณ  ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋›ฐ์–ด์™”๋‹ค…)

Good luck W and hope you enjoy your two weeks at BU Tanglewood Institute’s camp!

2025.6

Back to Freeways to Lenox

Amherst์—์„œ ์ž ์‹œ ํœด์‹์„ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ณ , ์ž‘์€ ๋ถ„ Summer Camp Checkin deadline ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋Š” ๊ด€๊ณ„๋กœ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋™์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ Freeway๋ฅผ ํƒ€๊ณ  Lenox๋ž€ ๋„์‹œ๋ฅผ ํ–ฅํ•ด ๋‹ฌ๋ ค๊ฐ”๋‹ค.. ์ด๋•Œ๋ถ€ํ„ด ๋นจ๋ˆˆ ๋น„ํ–‰์œผ๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ •์‹ ๋ ฅ ์šด์ „์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋‹ค..

As checkin deadline gets closer, we rushed back to Lenox via Freeways from Amherst.

2025.6

Amherst College & Amherst, MA

๋ฌผ๋ก  Boston์ž์ฒด๋„ ๋Œ€ํ•™์ดŒ์œผ๋กœ ๋จน๊ณ  ์‚ด๊ธฐ๋Š” ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๐Ÿ™‚ ๋˜๋‹ค๋ฅธ ๋Œ€ํ•™์ดŒ์ธ Amherst์— ๋“ค๋ ธ๋‹ค. 90F+ ํญ์—ผ์ฃผ์˜๋ณด ์†์—์„œ, ์ „๋ฏธ #2 Liberal Arts College์ธ Amherst College๋„ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๋‘˜๋Ÿฌ๋ณด๊ณ  ์ œ์ผ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•ด ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ํ”ผ์ž๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ์— ๊ฐ€์„œ ๋จน์–ด ์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค.

ํ•œํŽธ ์—ญ์‹œ Carrier๊ฐ€ ์—์–ด์ฝ˜ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ๊ฐœ๋ฐœํ•œ ๋ฐ์—๋Š” ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋™๋ถ€์˜ ์‚ด์ธ์ ์ธ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„ ๋‚ ์”จ์—์„œ์˜ ํ•„์š”๊ฐ€ ํฌ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฑธ ์ƒˆ์‚ผ…ใ…Žใ…Ž

Part of reason we took detouring around rural Mass was to check out Amherst and Amherst College – loved the small school vibe and settings and enjoyed the pizza at Amherst city center

Plus steaming heat reminded me that any innovation is driven by strong needs for that ๐Ÿ™‚ Thank you Eastcoast weather and Mr. Carrier.

2025.6

Small Towns in Massachusetts

Last Min ์ค€๋น„๋ฌผ๋“ค์„ ์‚ฌ๋ ค๊ณ  Boston ์™ธ๊ณฝ์˜ Target์— ๊ฐ”๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๋™์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋ คํ•˜๋‹ˆ ์–ด์ฉ” ์ˆ˜ ์—†์ด ์‹œ๊ณจ๊ธธ๋“ค์„ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค… Massachusetts๋„ ๋Œ€์ฒ™ ์  Washington๊ณผ ๋น„์Šทํ•˜๊ฒŒ ์‹œ๋ฆฌ ํ•ด์•ˆ๊ฐ€(Boston, Seattle)์— ๋Œ€๋ถ€๋ถ„์˜ ์ธ๊ตฌ/๋„์‹œ๋“ค์ด ๋ถ„ํฌํ•ด ์žˆ๊ณ  ๋‚ด๋ฅ™์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ๋“œ๋ฌธ๋“œ๋ฌธ ๋งˆ์„๋“ค์ด ์žˆ์–ด์„œ… -๊ทผ๋ฐ ๋‹ค ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ๋งˆ์„๋“ค์ธ์ง€ ์˜› New Englandํ’์˜ ๊ฑด์ถ•๋ฌผ๋“ค์ด ์ฆ๋น„ํ•ด ๋ณด๋Š” ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์›€์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค – ๊ทธ๋‹ฅ ์ง€๋ฃจํ•˜์ง€๋Š” ์•Š์•˜๋‹ค. (๋งˆ์น˜ Assassin’s Creed ๋ฏธ๊ตญํŽธ-์•„๋งˆ III์˜€์„๋“ฏ-์„ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ ๋ณด๋Š” ๋“ฏํ•œ ๋А๋‚Œ…ใ…Žใ…Ž)

Happen to drive along rural or peaceful area of Massachusetts – maybe similar to Washington, major metropolitan is on the seaside while the interior of the state is peaceful. Feels like driving along the scene of Assassin’s Creed ๐Ÿ™‚

2025.6

Alaska 536: Seattle to Boston

ํ– ์ •์‹ ์—†๋‹ค….์ด์ œ๋Š” ๋‚˜๋ณด๋‹ค ๋ฉ์น˜์ปค์ง„ ๊ผฌ๋งน์ด๊ตฐ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„๋ฐฉํ•™ ์บ ํ”„ ๋ฐ๋ ค๋‹ค์ฃผ๋Ÿฌ ๋•…๋์—์„œ ๋•…๋์ธ ๋ณด์ˆ˜๋™์„ ๋ฌด์Šจ ๋™๋„ค ๋งˆ์‹ค ๊ฐ€๋“ฏ์ด 48์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋™์•ˆ ๊ฐ”๋‹ค์™”๋‹ค…

์™•๋ณต ๋Œ€๋žต 12์‹œ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋น„ํ–‰์ด์—ˆ๊ณ  ๊ฐˆ๋•Œ๋Š” ๋นจ๋ˆˆ ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐํƒ€๊ณ  ๊ฐ”๊ณ  ํ•˜ํ•„ ์บ ํ”„ ์œ„์น˜๋Š” ๋ฉ”์‚ฌ์ถ”์„ธ์ธ ์˜ ๋ณด์ˆ˜๋™ ์ •๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํŽธ ใ…Žใ…Ž ๋ฉ€๋‹ค๋ฉ€์–ด….๊ฒŒ๋‹ค๊ฐ€ ๊นŒ๋”ฑํ•˜๋ฉด Thunderstorm๋•Œ๋ฌธ์— ๋„์ฐฉ ๋ชปํ• ์ˆ˜๋„ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒฝ๊ณ  ๋ฉ”์ผ๋„ ๋‚ ๋ผ์˜ค๊ณ …ใ…Žใ…Ž์•”ํŠผ ๋‚ ์”จ๋Š” ์‚ด์ธ์ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค…์ •๋ง์ด์ง€ ์—ฌ๋ฆ„์—” ์„ ์„ ์พŒ์ ํ•œ ์”จ์• ํ‹€์—์„œ ๋”ด๋ฐ ๊ฐ€๋Š”๊ฑด ์–ด๋งˆ์–ด๋งˆํ•œ ํˆฌ์ž์ž„์„ ์ƒˆ์‚ผ ์žฌํ™•์ธ…

๋‹คํ–‰์ด๊ฑด ์ด์ œ ๊ผฌ๋งน์ด๊ตฐ๋„ ๋‚˜์ด๋ฅผ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ๋“œ์…”์„œ exit row์— ์•‰์•„๊ฐˆ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๊ฒŒ๋œ๊ณ ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ „์— ๋น„ํ•˜๋ฉด ๋งŽ์ด ๋„“๊ฒŒ(๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ผฌ๊ณ  ์ญ‰ ๋ป—์–ด๋„ ๋ ๋งŒํผ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํ•œ….) ์•‰์•„๊ฐ”๋‹ค…

Crazy 48 hours trip to Boston and Mass started from Saturday midnight with red eye flight..

2025.6

I-84 and Hartford, CT

Passed thru maybe all the cities in CT as we headed to Newark airport.

Boston์™ธ๊ณฝ ๋งborough์—์„œ 1๋ฐ•ํ•˜๊ณ  Mass Turnpike๋ฅผ ๋”ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ€๋‹ค 84๋ฒˆ์„ ๋งŒ๋‚˜ ๋‚จ์„œ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ์ •์ง„….๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ธธ์€ New Jersey๋กœ ๊ฐ€์•ผ๋ณด๋‹ค๋ณด๋‹ˆ NYC๋ฅผ ์šฐํšŒํ•ด์„œ ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ด€๊ณ„๋กœ 84ํƒ€๊ณ  ๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ Connecticut์˜ ์—ฅ๊ฐ„ํ•œ ๋„์‹œ๋Š” ๋‹ค ์ง€๋‚œ๋“ฏ…

2024.8

Harvard University

์ฒ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ•2 aka Calebville๋„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€….์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๋Š”๊ฑด ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ ๋‘˜์งธ ํ•™๊ต์นœ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์šฐ์—ฐํžˆ ๋งŒ๋‚จ…ใ…‹ใ…‹ใ…‹ใ…‹

์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋์œผ๋กœ ์ด์ œ๋Š” ๋‹ค์‹œ ์„œ๋‚จ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ณ ๊ณ …

Another must spot in Cambridge ๐Ÿ™‚ Campus was busy with moving ins and visitors as Summer vacation ends

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