Midnight Sky

์ด๋ฒˆ๋‹ฌ ์ดˆ, ๋ฐค์— ํ˜น์‹œ ์˜ค๋กœ๋ผ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด์ผ๋ ค๋‚˜ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฐ์€ random shot ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋‹ฌ๋น›์— ๊ตฌ๋ฆ„๋น„์น˜๋Š” ์ƒท์ธ๊ฑธ๋กœ… ๐Ÿ™‚

Wished another Aurora shot and failed – although cloud reflected with moonlight was good enough ๐Ÿ™‚

2024.8

Yakima Cherry Picking

๋Œ์•„์˜ค๋Š” ๊ธธ์— ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ๋ฉˆ์ท„๋˜ Yakima – Teteon์—์„œ ๊ณ ๋ ค์žฅ ๐Ÿ™‚ ์‹œ๋„ ์‹คํŒจ๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ๊ฟฉ๋Œ€์‹ ๋‹ญ์œผ๋กœ ๋…ธ๋ถ€๋ถ€๋ฅผ ๊ณผ์ˆ˜์›์— ๊ฐ•์ œ ๋…ธ์—ญ์‹œ์ผฐ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์น˜์ž… ๐Ÿ™‚ ์žฌ๋ฏธ์žˆ๊ฒŒ ์ฒด๋ฆฌ ๋”ฐ๊ณ  ๋จน๊ณ  ์™”๋‹ค…

์ด๋กœ ๋Œ€์ถฉ ๋Œ€๋žต 2400๋งˆ์ผ 5๋ฐ•6์ผ์˜ ์—ฌ์ •์„ ๋งˆ์น˜๊ณ  ์ง‘์— ๋Œ์•„์™”๋‹ค…

Although late – maybe a week or so, we enjoyed the cherry picking at Yakima on the way home as a real-real last stop

2024.7

Boise to Yakima

์ด์ œ๋Š” ์ง„์งœ ์ง‘์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋‚ …๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ ์—ฌ์ •์˜ first leg์ธ Yakima๊นŒ์ง€ ์ด๋™… ์‚ฌ๋ง‰๊ธฐํ›„์˜ ๋์žฅ์„ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๋Š” Eastern Oregon์„ ์ง€๋‚˜ ๋น™๊ธ€๋น™๊ธ€ Deadman’s Pass๋„ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ณ  Washington์˜ ๋์—†๋Š” Palouse ๋ฐ€๋ฐญ๋„ ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉฐ Yakima๋กœ ํ–ฅํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Finally, the last day – first leg was moving from Boise to Yakima where we passed thru desert area of Eastern Oregon, and endless wheat fields of Washington

2024.7

Boise, ID

Teton Village Gondola์—์„œ ๋‚ด๋ ค์™€ ๋“ค์ˆจ๊ณผ ๋‚ ์ˆจ์„ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ฐพ์€ ํ›„ ๐Ÿ™‚ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ง‘์œผ๋กœ ํ–ฅํ•œ ์žฅ์ •์„ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜์—ฌ Freeway 3๊ฐœ ๋…ธ์„ ๊ณผ State Road ๋ช‡๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ํ†ต๊ณผํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ด 6์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ฐ€๋Ÿ‰ ์šด์ „ํ•˜์—ฌ Boise์— ๋„์ฐฉํ•ด์„œ ํ˜ธํ…”๋กœ ์งํ–‰…

์‚ฌ์‹ค Teton์—์„œ ๋‚˜์˜ฌ ๋•Œ ์ด์šฉํ•ด์•ผ๋˜๋Š” 2500m ์˜ ์‚ฐ์•…๋„๋กœ์ธ Teton Pass๊ฐ€ ์ง€๋‚  ์˜ˆ์ •์ด๋˜๋‚  ํ•œ๋‹ฌ์ „์— ๋ฌด๋„ˆ์ ธ์„œ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๋Š”๊ฒŒ ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€ํ”ผํ•˜๊ฒ ๊ตฌ๋‚˜๋ฉฐ ํƒ„์‹์„ ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ธฐ์ ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ˆ์ •์ผ ์ผ์ฃผ์ผ ์ „ ์ฆˆ์Œ์— ์ž„์‹œ ๋ณต๊ตฌ๊ฐ€ ๋˜์–ด ์•ˆ๋Œ์•„์™€๋„ ๋˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค… – ์•„๋งˆ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ƒํ™œ์ด ๊ฐ•์‚ฐ์ด ๋‘๋ฒˆ ๋ฐ”๋€”๋•Œ์ฏค ๋˜์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ์ด๋ฆฌ ๋นจ๋ฆฌ ๊ณต์‚ฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑด ์ฒ˜์Œ ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ•œ๋“ฏ ์‹ถ๋‹ค…(์—ญ์‹œ ๊ด€๊ด‘์ด ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ ์†Œ๋“์ธ์ง€๋ผ ์žฌ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ์ž„์‹œ๋กœ๋‚˜๋งˆ ๋ณต๊ตฌํ•œ๋“ฏ ํ•˜๊ณ .. )

https://www.powder.com/news/teton-pass-reopen#:~:text=In%20the%20turnaround%20of%20the%20century%2C%20Wyoming%20Highway,as%20seen%20on%20June%208th%2C%202024%20Courtesy%20WYDOT

Wyoming DOT์— ๊ฒฝ์˜๋ฅผ ํ‘œํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋™์‹œ์— Idaho์™€ Wyoming์˜ ๊ด‘ํ™œํ•จ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ†ต๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  Teton๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋์—†๋Š” Snake River๊ณ์„ ๋”ฐ๋ผ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ๋ฌด์‚ฌํžˆ Boise์— ๋„์ฐฉ… (์ด๊ฐ• Teton์—์„œ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•ด Wyoming-Idaho/Oregon์„ ๋‹ค ์ง€๋‚˜ Washington๊นŒ์ง€ ์™€์„œ Columbia River๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋‚œ๋‹ค….)

Now back to the road to get-closer-to-home driving and stopped at Boise after 6 hours of driving multiple freeways and state roads along with endless Snake river which started from Teton –

Also, I need to admit this 6 hours of driving was actually a result of miraculous work as Teton Pass was landslided a month ago and only took ~3 weeks to build up the temporary bypass – Thanks to marvel engineering works and quick actions from Wyoming DOT (Big thank you!) – This is the fastest ever road engineering work I have noticed in US in last ~20 years ๐Ÿ™‚

2024.7

Daejeon Jeong

์ด์ œ๋Š” ์‹ ๊ธฐํ•˜์ง„ ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ ์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์— ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ธธ์— ๋ณด์ธ Seattle ๋Œ€์ „์ • ๐Ÿ™‚

์„ฑ์‹ฌ๋‹น ๋นต์ง‘์ด๋‚˜ ์‹œ์• ํ‹€์— ์—ด์–ด์ฃผ์‹ฌ ์•ˆ๋ ๊นŒ? ๐Ÿ™‚

Seattle’s Daejeon Jeong for a while

2024.6

Mt Rainier National Park: Paradise

While I was excited to see great views while driving to mountain, the only concern I had was one thick line of cloud in the middle of mountain… and realized that line of cloud was sitting on Paradise area where we arrived ๐Ÿ™‚

Still snow covered ๐Ÿ™‚ and cloud covered blocking the main view ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

๋™๋„ค์˜ ์˜์‚ฐ Mt Rainier – ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ํ’๊ฒฝ์€ ์ข‹์•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ๋”ฑ ํ•œ๊ฐ€์ง€ ๊ฑฑ์ •์ด ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.. ์‚ฐ์ค‘ํ„ฑ์— ํ•œ์ค„๋กœ ๊ทธ์–ด์ง„ ๊ตฌ๋ฆ„… ์ •์ž‘ ๋„์ฐฉํ•˜๋‹ˆ ๊ทธ ํ•œ์ค„ ๊ตฌ๋ฆ„์— ๊ฐ–ํ˜€ ์‚ฐ ์ •์ƒ์€ ์•„๋ฌด๊ฒƒ๋„ ๋ณด์ด์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ  ๋ˆˆ๋ฎ์ธ ํ’๊ฒฝ๋งŒ ๊ฐ์ƒํ•˜๋‹ค ์™”๋‹ค…ใ…Ž

Alaska 388: St.ย Louis to Seattle

ํ˜ธํ…”๋ฐฉ์—์„œ ์—์–ด์ฝ˜ ๋นต๋นตํ‹€์–ด๋†“๊ณ  Euro Copa ๊ณ„์† ๋ณด๋‹ค ์ž ๋“ค๊ณ  ๋‹ค์Œ๋‚  ๋‹ค์‹œ STL๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์™€ ์—์Šคํ‚ค๋ชจ ์•„์ €์”จ๊ฐ€ ๋Œ์–ด์ฃผ๋Š” ์ฐ๋งคํƒ€๊ณ  ์‹œ์›ํ•œ ์‹œ์• ํ‹€๋กœ ๊ท€ํ™˜…

Next day – back to STL to get an Alaskan ride back to SEA ๐Ÿ™‚

2024.6

Alaska 246: Seattle to St. Louis

Now having a highschooler who learns various things means we have to send him to other states for multiple week long summer camp – Now I look back and even smile on the old days I was complaining to have “expensive” local summer camp when these kids were in elementary or so…

This year for my #2, it is 4 weeks in Midwest (and he needs to go to LA after this ๐Ÿ™‚ ) so I had to resume the duty of transporting the kid to out of town ๐Ÿ™‚ and due to conflicting schedule we decided to fly out to St. Louis on Friday afternoon.

Rather than getting ripped off at airport with hyper inflation impacted foods, we also tested Alaska’s in-flight meal (as this one is long haul – they graciously “sell” the meal with pre-order only:) ) which were Penang curry and Korean beef burger ๐Ÿ™‚

๋ฐฉํ•™์ด ๋˜๋Š” ๊ณ ๋“ฑํ•™์ƒ์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์ด์ œ๋Š” ๋ป‘ํ•˜๋ฉด ํƒ€์ฃผ๋กœ ํ–‰์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์•ผํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋ฐฉํ•™๋„ ์ž‘๋…„์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ฐฉํ•™ํ•˜์ž๋งˆ์ž ์ฒซ์ฃผ์— ์• ๋ฅผ “๋ฐฐ์†ก”ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. ๐Ÿ™‚ ๊ทผ๋ฐ ์ตœ์ข… ํ–‰์„ ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์–ด์ฐจํ”ผ ๊ณตํ•ญ์ด ๋ถ™์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ๋„์‹œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹Œ ๋–จ์–ด์ง„ ๋„์‹œ๋ผ ์• ๋ฅผ ํ˜ผ์ž ๋ณด๋‚ด๋Š”๊ฑด ๋ถˆ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ณ  ๋น„ํ–‰ํŽธ ์ผ์ •์ด ๋”ฑํžˆ ๋งž๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์—†์–ด ์ผ๋‹จ St. Louis๋กœ ํ–ฅํ•ด์„œ ๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ์„œ ์šด์ „ํ•ด ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ• ์„ ํƒ…

์–ด์ฐจํ”ผ ๊ณตํ•ญ์—์„œ ๋ง๋„ ์•ˆ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์— ๋ฐฅ๋จน๋Š”๊ฑฐ ํ„ธ๋ฆด๋ฐ”์—” ์ฐจ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ๊ธฐ๋‚ด์—์„œ ์‚ฌ๋จน์–ด๋ณด๋ฉด ์–ด๋–จ๊นŒํ•ด์„œ ์žฅ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ตญ๋‚ด์„  ๋…ธ์„ ์—์„œ ์„ ์ฃผ๋ฌธ๋งŒ ๋ฐ›๋Š” ๋ฐฅ๋„ ํ•˜๋‚˜์”ฉ ์‚ฌ์ „ ๊ตฌ๋งคํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฐ›์•„๋จน์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ… Penang Curry๋Š” ํ•œ 6์ž… ๋จน์œผ๋ฉด ๋์ด๊ณ  Korean Beef Burger๋Š” ์–ด๋””๊ฐ€ Korean์ธ์ง€ ์ž˜๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋‹ค… (์ด์ œ ์Šฌ์Šฌ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๋ป‘ํ•˜๋ฉด Korean๋ถ™์ด๋Š”๋ฐ ์žฌ๋ฏธ๋“ค๋ฆฐ๋“ฏ ํ•œ ํ˜„์ƒ์ด ๊ฐ€๋” ๋ณด์ด๋Š”๋ฐ ์ด๊ฒƒ๋„ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋“ฏ…ใ…Žใ…Ž)

๋ญ ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ๊ธฐ๋Œ€์•ˆํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๋ฒ”์ฃ„๋„์‹œ3๊ฐ€ ๊ธฐ๋‚ด ์˜ํ™” ๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ์— ์žˆ์–ด ์กธ๋˜ ์ค‘ ๋ฐ˜์ฏค ๊ฐ์ƒ.. (๋‚จ์€ ๋ฐ˜์€ ๋Œ์•„์˜ค๋Š” ๋น„ํ–‰ํŽธ์—์„œ ๋๋‚ด์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค..) ๊ทธ ์—„์ฒญ๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ๋ณด๋˜ ์ดˆ๋กฑ์ด step์„ ์‹ค์ œ๋กœ๋„ ๋ณด๊ธด ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์•„๋ฌด๋ž˜๋„ ์žฅ์ด์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์–ด์•ผ ๋ฒ”์ฃ„๋„์‹œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹๊นŒ ์‹ถ์Œ…

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์˜ค์ž๋งˆ์ž ๋ฏธ์ฃผ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ๊ฐ€๋ดค์œผ๋‹ˆ ๊ฑฐ์˜ 20๋…„๋งŒ์— ๋ฏธ์ฃผ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ํ–ฅํ•ด ์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค…

2024.6