Seattle or Bust Aug 2026: Final Stretch

Final stretch of entire this Bust travel ๐Ÿ™‚ The Columbia river bridge crossing and stopover at Ridgefield In-N-Out means I am at home ๐Ÿ™‚

๋ญ ์ด์ œ 8์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋ฏธ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š”๊ฑด ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋™๋„ค ์Šˆํผ๊ฐ€๋Š” ๊ฐ…ใ…‹ใ…‹ใ…‹

2026.8

Seattle or Bust Aug 2026: Santa Nella, California to Medford, Oregon

๋‹ค์‹œ I-5๋กœ ๋ƒ…๋‹ค ๋‹ฌ๋ ธ๋‹ค…์‚ฌ์‹ค ์žฅ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์—ฌํ–‰์˜ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ํฐ์ ์€ ์ •์ฒด๋กœ ์ธํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์†Œ๋น„์™€ ํ”ผ๋กœ์ธ๋ฐ ํ•˜ํ•„ ํ‡ด๊ทผ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— Sacramento๋ฅผ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์–ด ์šฐํšŒ๋กœ๋กœ ์ƒˆํฌ๋ผ๋ฉ˜ํ† ๊ฐ• ๋š๋ฐฉ๊ธธ์„ ๋‹ฌ๋ ค ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ€์„œ Santa Clarita ํ˜ธํ…”์—์„œ ์ถœ๋ฐœํ•œ์ง€ 13์‹œ๊ฐ„๋งŒ์— ๋ฐค9์‹œ ์ฆˆ์Œ ์• ๋งคํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ๐Ÿ™‚ ๋‚จ๋ถ€ ์˜ค๋ ˆ๊ณค ๋„์ฐฉ…ใ…Žใ…Ž

(์›๋ž˜๋Š” ์ด๋‚  ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ 6-7์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์ •๋„ ๋” ์šด์ „ํ•ด์„œ ์“ฐ๋Ÿฌ์ง€๊ธฐ ์ „์— ์ง‘์— ๋„์ฐฉํ•  ๊ณ„ํš์ด์—ˆ์œผ๋‚˜ LA๋‚ด๋ ค์˜ฌ ๋•Œ ์ปจ๋””์…˜์ด ์ข‹์งˆ์•Š์•„ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์ถœ๋ฐœ ์ฒซ์ˆ™๋ฐ•์ง€๋ฅผ LA๊ทผ์ฒ˜๋กœ ์˜ฎ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์—ฌ๊ธฐ์„œ 1๋ฐ• ์ถ”๊ฐ€ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์ •์œผ๋กœ ๋’ค๋Šฆ๊ฒŒ ๋ณ€๊ฒฝํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ…detour๊นŒ์ง€ ํ•˜๋‹ค๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์ด๊ฒŒ ์‹ ์˜ ํ•œ ์ˆ˜๊ฐ€ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค..)

Finally back to road for today’s final destination of Medford, Oregon:) Good drive overall especially driving along with Sacramento River as a detour. Now I only have a wish of having a detour route to pass around Sacramento like Stockton to Woodland

2026.8

Seattle or Bust Aug 2026: Los Banos, California

I-5๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์™€ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋Š”์ค‘ ์ง‘์—์„œ ์ƒ์กด์‹ ๊ณ  ํ™•์ธ์ด ์™”๋‹ค…๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ๋ฐฅ์€ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋จน๊ณ  ๋‹ค๋…€๋ผ๋ผ๋Š” ๋ง์”€์— -๊ธด์žฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์‚ฐ๊ธธ์„ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค ๋ณด๋‹ˆ- ์ง€์น˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ …ํ•ด์„œ ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ํœด๊ฒŒ์†Œ์—์„œ ๊ณผ์ž๋‚˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜์‚ฌ๋จน์œผ๋ฉฐ ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ€๋ ค๋˜ ๊ณ„ํš์„ ์ˆ˜์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋‚˜๋งˆ I-5์—์„œ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์›Œ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ๋™๋„ค ์‹œ๋‚ด๋กœ ๊ฐ€์„œ ์ผ์‹์ง‘์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”์ •๋˜๋Š” ๊ณณ์— ๊ฐ€ ๋ฒค๋˜ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ๋จน์—ˆ๋‹ค.

๋‚˜๋ฆ„ ์‹œ๊ณจ ๋งˆ์„์˜ ์•„์‹œ์•ˆ์‹๋‹น ๋งค๋‰ด๋Š” ์‹คํŒจ๋ฅผ ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ์šฐ๊ฐ€ ๋งŽ์•„ risk๊ด€๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ•œ๋‹ต์‹œ๊ณ  ๐Ÿ™‚ 2๊ฐœ๋ฅผ ์„ ํƒํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ํ…Œ๋ฆฌ์•ผ๊ธฐ ์น˜ํ‚จ, ํ•˜๋‚˜๋Š” ๋กค์„ ์‹œ์ผฐ๊ฑด๋งŒ…๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€๋กœ ์น˜ํ‚จ์ด ๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋จน๊ธฐ ํž˜๋“  ์ˆ˜์ค€์œผ๋กœ ๋‚˜์™€์„œ ๋กค๋งŒ ๋จน๊ณ  ์น˜ํ‚จ์€ ๋ฐ˜์ •๋„ ๋‚จ๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๊ณค์ด๋„ ๊ธฐ๋ฆ„ ์ข€ ๋จน์ด๊ณ  ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ถœ๋ฐœํ–ˆ๋‹ค..๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ์—ฌ๊ธด ์‚ฐํ˜ธ์„ธ ๊ธธ๋กœ์ด์ชฝ์—์„œ I-5๋กœ ๋‚˜์˜ค๋ฉด ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋™๋„ค๋ผ ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ๊ดœ์ฐฎ์ง€ ์•Š์„๊นŒ๋ž€ ํ—›๋œ ๋ฏฟ์Œ์ด ๊นจ์ง„ ์•„์‰ฌ์›€…

Visiting Asian restaurant when traveling ‘almost no Asian’ rural towns based on the reviews has been the riskiest thing when on the road ๐Ÿ™‚ some times you hit the real jewels others you get totally busted and/or ripped off ๐Ÿ™‚

This time, maybe it was just a base hit…so left the meal 1/3 untouched might have provided a good feedback..I should have just gone to Subway….

2026.8

Seattle or Bust Aug 2026: Moutain Detour

์‚ฐ์„ ํƒ€๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ธธ์ด ์ˆ˜์ƒํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘…๋„ค๋น„๊ฒŒ์ด์…˜์€ ์•„์ฃผ ๋‹ด๋ฐฑํ•˜๊ฒŒ 1์‹œ๊ฐ„๋ฐ˜ ์ •์ฒด ์˜ˆ์ƒ ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋‘ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์ œ์ผ ๋นจ๋ผ๋ž€ ๊ทผ๊ฑฐ ์—†๋Š” ๋Œ€์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ์™ธ์น˜๋Š”๋ฐ….

๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์ง€๋„๋“ค์„ ๋’ค์ ธ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์ด๊ฑด ๊ฑฐ์˜ ํ์‡„ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ธ๋ฐ ์šฐํšŒ๋กœ๋Š” ํ•œ์ฐธ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๊ณ  ๋” Ventura๊นŠ์ˆ™ํ•œ ์‚ฐ์•…์ง€๋Œ€๋กœ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ„๋‹ค… ์ž ์‹œ ๊ณ ๋ฏผํ•˜๋‹ค ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ์žฅ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ ์—ฌํ–‰์ด๋ผ ์กฐ๊ธˆ ๋” ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๋”๋ผ๋„ ๊ณ„์† ์›€์ง์ด๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์ข‹์ง€ ์•Š์„๊นŒ๋ž€ ์ƒ๊ฐ์— ํ•œ์ฐธ ๊ฑธ๋ ค I-5 ํƒˆ์ถœ…

๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ ๋Œ€๋žต ํ•œ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๋ฐ˜ ๋™์•ˆ ์‚ฐ๋“ฑ์„ฑ์ด๋กœ ๋‚œ ๊ธธ๊ณผ -๊ฑฐ์˜ ๋น„ํฌ์žฅ์ˆ˜์ค€์˜ ๋„๋กœ ํฌํ•จ- ์œ ์ „์ง€์—ญ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ง€๋‚˜๋ฉฐ ๋‹ฌ๋ ค ๋‹ค์‹œ Bakersfield์œ„์ชฝ์—์„œ I-5๋กœ ํ•ฉ๋ฅ˜ํ•ด ์ค‘๊ฐ€์ฃผ๋ฅผ ๋‹ฌ๋ ธ๋‹ค..

๋‚˜์ค‘์— ๋‰ด์Šค๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ํŠธ๋Ÿญ์— ๋ถˆ์ด ๋‚˜์„œ…๊ฑฐ๊ธฐ๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ ธ์œผ๋ฉด ๋Œ€๋žต ์ตœ์†Œ ์„ธ์‹œ๊ฐ„์€ ๋„˜๊ฒŒ ์„œ์žˆ์—ˆ์„๋“ฏ….ใ…Žใ…Ž

https://bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/northbound-i-5-snarled-after-semi-truck-catches-fire-near-grapevine-expect-delays-kern-county-california-highway-patrol

Immediately after getting started, stumbled into unusual traffic in I-5 and had to make a quick decision whether to take a long and mountainous road detour vs to wait endless ๐Ÿ™‚ so took the pill of exploration and glad I did it ๐Ÿ™‚

2026.8

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

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

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

Downtown Portland

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๊ณ  ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์ฃผ๋กœ ์™ธ๊ณฝ์ด๋ž‘ ์‹œ๋‚ด์˜ ๊ฐ•๋ณ€๋งŒ ๋‹ค๋…”์ง€ Downtown Portland๋กœ ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€ ๋ณธ ๊ฑด ๋ฏฟ๊ธฐ์ง€ ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ ์ฒ˜์Œ…

ํ˜น์‹œ๋‚˜ ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ์•ˆํƒ€๊น๊ฒŒ๋„ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋„ ์‹œ์• ํ‹€ ๋‹ค์šดํƒ€์šด์ด๋ž‘ ๋ง‰์ƒ๋ง‰ํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค…

It was my surprise to find out I have never been to downtown Portland..

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