2024

์˜ฌํ•ด๋Š” ๋ง‘์€ํŽธ์— ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์•ˆ์™€์„œ ๋ฉ‹์žˆ๊ฒ ๋‹ค ๊ธฐ๋Œ€ํ–ˆ์œผ๋‚˜…. ๋ฐ”๋žŒ์ด ์•ˆ๋ถ€๋Š” ๋‚ ์ด๋ผ needle์ด ํญ์ฃฝ ์—ฐ๊ธฐ์— ํญํƒ„ ๋งž์€๊ฑฐ ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๋ณด์ด๋„ค…ใ…Žใ…Ž

This year’s no rain was just great till the firework started ๐Ÿ™‚

Happy New Year!

2024

Alaska 1233: Los Angeles to Seattle

ํ•ด์ €๋ฌด๋Š” UCLA๋ฅผ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ ๊ณตํ•ญ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋™ํ•ด์„œ ์ฐจ ๋ฐ˜๋‚ฉํ•˜๊ณ  ๋ฌด์กฐ๊ฑด 20% ๋ถ™์ธ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ˜‘๋ฐ•ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ณตํ•ญ์—์„œ ์‹์‚ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์šฐ์ฃผ๊ด‘์„  ์ด์ฃผ๋Š” Starship์— ํƒ‘์Šนํ•œํ›„ – LAX๋Š” ์ œ๋ฐœ ํŠนํžˆ Terminal 6์ข€ renovateํ•ด์•ผ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์„๊นŒ๋ผ๋Š” ์ƒ๊ฐ์„ ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ – ์ง‘์œผ๋กœ ๋Œ์•„์™”๋‹ค

์ฆ๋ง์ด์ง€ ๊ณตํ•ญ์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ๋ณต์žกํ•˜๊ณ  ์ง€์ €๋ถ„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ๋งŽ๊ณ  ๋พ์Šค๋Ÿฝ๋‹ค …ใ…Žใ…Ž

Rent Car ๋ฐ˜๋‚ฉํ•˜๋Š”๊ณณ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋Š”๊ธธ์ด ๊ณต์‚ฌ์ค‘์ด๋ผ ๊ธธ์ฐพ์•„ ์‚ผ๋งŒ๋ฆฌ๋กœ ํ•ด๋งค๊ณ … Terminal๊นŒ์ง€ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” Shuttle์€ ๊ณตํ•ญ๋‚ด์—์„œ๋งŒ ์ •์ฒด๋กœ 30๋ถ„ ๋„˜๊ฒŒ ๊ฑธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ … Terminal์€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๊ฝ‰์ฐจ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ… LA์ž„์ด ๋ฌด์ƒ‰ํ•  ์ •๋„๋กœ ๊ณตํ•ญ๋‚ด์— ๋ง›์žˆ๋Š” ์Œ์‹๋„ ์—†๊ณ , (๊ทธ๋ƒฅ In N Out ํ•˜๋‚˜๋งŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๋†”๋ผ…ใ…Žใ…Ž) ํ™”์žฅ์‹ค์€ ์ง€์ €๋ถ„… ๊ณตํ•ญ WiFi๋„ ์—†๊ณ  ๋Œ€๊ธฐ์˜์ž์— ์ „์›๊ณต๊ธ‰๋„ ์•ˆ๋˜๋Š” ์ž๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋” ๋งŽ๋‹ค…-o-; ๋‹ค์Œ๋ถ€ํ„ด ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ๋“  ์ตœ๋Œ€ํ•œ Santa Ana๋‚˜ Burbank์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋ฆฌ๋ผ….

Finally coming back to home ๐Ÿ™‚ Although I appreciate lots of things available in California, I am happy that my home is in Washington ๐Ÿ™‚

2023.12

Seattle Old Buildings and Freeway Park

์ ์‹ฌ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์ด์šฉํ•œ ๋„์‹ฌ ํƒํ—˜…

์—ฌ๊ธฐ๋„ ๋„์‹œ๊ฐ€ ์ฃผ์šฑํ•˜๊ณ  ํฐ ๋™๋„ค๋ผ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ์ง€ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ๋“ค์ด ์กด์žฌํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ทธ ์ค‘ ์‹ ๊ธฐํ•œ ์˜ค๋ž˜๋œ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ ๋ช‡๊ฐœ๊ฐ€ ๋ˆˆ์— ์žกํ˜”๋‹ค…. ์˜›๋‚ ์—” ์ „ํ™”๊ตญ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์ด์—ˆ์„ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”์ •๋˜๋Š” ๊ฑด๋ฌผ๊ณผ ์ถ”์žฅ๋‹˜ ์–ผ๊ตด์ด ์ƒˆ๊ฒจ์ง„ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ…๊ฑท๋‹ค๋ณด๋‹ˆ ๊ณ ์†๋„๋กœ ์œ„์— ๋šœ๊ป‘์œผ๋กœ ๋งŒ๋“  ๊ณต์›๋„ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ…

Lunch time wondering at Downtown Seattle

2023.12

Old Microsoft Seattle Westlake Building

Bumped into my old memory lane in random walking in Seattle – Still Jimmy Johns and Chase were there ๐Ÿ™‚

๊ฑด๊ฐ•ํ•œ ์ƒํ™œ์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋‹ค์šดํƒ€์šด ๊ฑท๊ธฐ์˜ ์ผํ™˜ – ์ง€๋‚œ์ฃผ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋Š” ํ•˜์—ผ์—†์ด ๋ถ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฑท๋‹ค๋ณด๋‹ˆ ๋ช‡๋…„์„ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ๋˜ ์นœ์ˆ™ํ•œ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์ด ๋‚˜์™”๋‹ค. ๋ญ ์ด์ œ ์”จ์• ํ‹€ ์‹œ๋‚ด ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์— 1์ธต์ด ๋น„์–ด์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑด ๋†€๋ž์ง€๋„ ์•Š์ง€๋งŒ Starbucks๋งˆ์ € ์—†์–ด์ง€๊ณ  ์ด์ œ๋Š” Jimmy Johns์™€ Chase๋งŒ ๋‚จ์•„ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

2023.12

Seattle Beacon Hill and I-5 & I-90 View from Columbia Tower

์ง€์ธ๊ป˜์„œ ์ ์‹ฌ+๋ทฐ ์ดˆ๋Œ€ํ•ด์ฃผ์…”์„œ Seattle์—์„œ ์ œ์ผ ๋†’์€ ๋นŒ๋”ฉ์ด์ž ๋‚˜๋ฆ„ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์„œ๋ถ€์—์„œ ๋†’์ด๋กœ๋Š” ์ˆœ์œ„๊ถŒ์— ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š” Columbia Tower์˜ ์‚ฌ๋ฌด์‹ค ๊ตฌ๊ฒฝ ๐Ÿ™‚ – ํ•œ ๋•Œ Washington์ฃผ์—์„œ ์ด ํƒ€์›Œ๊ฐ€ ๋†’๋ƒ Mt Rainier๊ฐ€ ๋†’๋ƒ๋กœ ์˜›๋‚  ์ง์žฅ์—์„œ ๋œจ๊ฑฐ์šด ๋…ผ์Ÿ(?)์„ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ๊ธฐ์–ต๋„ ์žˆ์Œ…

์ด ๋™๋„ค๋Š” ํ•ญ์ƒ ๋ฒ„์Šคํƒ€๋ฉฐ ์‹œ์• ํ‹€ ๋‹ค๋‹๋•Œ ์—ฌ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ Seattle Downtown์˜ ์ฒซ stop์ด๋ผ ํ•ญ์ƒ ๊ทธ๋ž˜์™”๊ณ  ์•„์ง๋„ ์ข€๋” ์งง์€ commute์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ถ€๋Ÿฌ์›€์ด ์žˆ๋‹ค…ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž (์ ์‹ฌ ๋จน์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋„ ์—†๋Š” Downtown ์‹œ๋‚ด๋กœ ์ถœํ‡ด๊ทผํ•˜๊ธฐ ์ง„์ • ์‹ซ๋‹ค..-.-) ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ทฐ ๋ณด๋ฉด์„œ ๋งค์ผ ๋ง›๋‚œ ๋ฐฅ๋„ ์ฃผ๋Š” ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ผ๋ฉด ์•ž๋’ค ์•ˆ๊ฐ€๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ๊ฐ€์•ผํ•˜๋Š”๋ฐ… ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ• ๋Ÿฐ์ง€ ์‹ถ๋‹ค..ใ…Žใ…Žใ…Ž

์•„๋งˆ๋„ ์ง€๊ธˆ ํšŒ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ 2๋…„ ์ฑ„์›Œ์„œ ๋ชธ์ด ๊ทผ์ง€๋Ÿฌ์›Œ์ง€๋Š”๊ฑด๊ฐ€ ์‹ถ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•จ..ใ…Žใ…Ž ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด๊ฒƒ๋“ค๋„ ๋งŽ์ด ๋ฐฐ์šฐ๊ณ  ํ•ด์„œ ๋‚˜๋ฆ„ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•œ ๋งˆ์Œ์€ ์•„์ง ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ์ž„…ใ…Žใ…Ž

First time being in Columbia Tower after living in Pacific Northwest for 17 years ๐Ÿ™‚

2023.11

Walking SR 520 Trail

์ง€๋‚œ์ฃผ์˜ ๋ฏธ์นœ์ง“ ๐Ÿ™‚ ๋‘์‹œ๊ฐ„๋™์•ˆ ๊ฑธ์–ด์„œ ํ˜ธ์ˆ˜๊ฑด๋„ˆ ๋ฒจ๋ทฐ์—์„œ ์”จ์• ํ‹€์„ ์ฐ๊ณ ์™”๋‹ค..๊ฑท๊ณ  ๋ณด๋‹ˆ 2๋งŒ๋ณด ๊ฑธ์–ด์„œ ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋„ ์‚ด์ง ๋•ก๊ฒจ์ฃผ์‹ฌ…ใ…Žใ…Ž

Crazy walk to Seattle from Bellevue attempted on one fine Oct day.

2023.10

Wandering Seattle

์ž์ฃผ Downtown์— ๋‚˜์˜ค๋Š”๋ฐ ๋ฒ„์Šคstop-ํšŒ์‚ฌ-๋ฒ„์Šคstop๋งŒ ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ™์•„ ์ด๋ฒˆ์ฃผ ์–ด๋А๋‚  ์ ์‹ฌ์‹œ๊ฐ„์— ๋ฐ–์— ๋‚˜์™€ ์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์— Seattle ์‹œ๋‚ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉํ™ฉํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๊ฑธ์—ˆ๋‹ค… ๐Ÿ™‚

์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์— ์ฑ™๊ฒจ๋ณด๋‹ˆ….๋ณ€ํ•œ๊ฒƒ๋„ ์žˆ๊ณ  ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ์ธ๊ฒƒ๋„ ๋งŽ๋„ค…. ์ผ๋‹จ Waterfront์— ๊ณ ๊ฐ€ ์ฒ ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ€ ์ด์ œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ์ข€ ์ง€๋‚˜๋‹ˆ -์•„์ง๋„ ์ฃผ์œ„๋Š” ๊ณต์‚ฌ์ค‘์ธ๊ณณ๋„ ๋งŽ์ง€๋งŒ- ์‹œ๋‚ด์™€ Waterfront๊ฐ€ ๋ถ„๋ฆฌ๋˜์—ˆ๋˜๊ฒŒ ์Šฌ์Šฌ ์—ฐ๊ฒฐ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ™์•„ ๋ณด๊ธฐ ์ข‹๋‹ค ๐Ÿ™‚

Wandered around the city during lunch break time – Glad to see the “cure” between Waterfront and the city after demolishing the Alaskan Way viaduct.

2023.11

Heaven Sent Fried Chicken

ํ† ์š”์ผ SYSO ์ž‘์€๋ถ„ ๋–จ๊ตฌ๊ณ  ๋Š˜์ƒ ๊ฐ€๋˜ ๋ณ„๋‹ค๋ฐฉ์ด ๋ฆฌ๋…ธ๋ฒ ์ด์…˜ ๊ณต์‚ฌ์ค‘์ธ์ง€ ์•„๋‹˜ ํ์ ์ธ์ง€ ๊ณต์‚ฌํŒ์ด๊ณ  ๋‹ซํ˜€์„œ ์˜ค๋žœ๋งŒ์— ํ˜ธ์ˆ˜๋งˆ์„์ชฝ ๋ณ„๋‹ค๋ฐฉ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ”๋‹ค…ใ…Žใ…Ž (์‚ฌ์‹ค ์‹œ์• ํ‹€ ‘ํ˜ธ์ˆ˜๋งˆ์„’์€ ์ข€ ํ—˜ํ•ด์„œ ์ž˜ ์•ˆ๊ฐ”์—ˆ๋‹ค…) ์•”ํŠผ ์ปคํ”ผ ํ•œ์ž” ๋“ค์ดํ‚ค๊ณ  ๋‚˜์˜ค๋Š”๋ฐ ์˜†์—๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์ด ๋™๋„ค์—์„œ ์น˜ํ‚จ์œผ๋กœ ์œ ๋ช… ์ข€ ํ•˜์‹  Heaven Sent ์น˜ํ‚จ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ๋ฅผ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌํ•˜๊ณ  ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ”๋‹ค…

์›๋ž˜ Ezell ์น˜ํ‚จ์ด ์˜คํ”„๋ผ์‡ผ์—๋„ ๋‚˜์˜ค๊ณ  ์œ ๋ช…ํ•ด์กŒ๋Š”๋ฐ (์˜คํ”„๋ผ๊ฐ€ ๊ฑฐ์˜ ์˜ค๋А๋‹˜ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด๋˜ ์‹œ์ ˆ…) ์œ ๋ช…ํ•ด์ง€๋ฉด ์ข…์ข… ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ์˜ค๋„ˆ์™€ ๋™์—…์ž ํ‹€์–ด์ง€๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฒŒ์–ด์ ธ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋ ˆ์„ธํ”ผ๋ฅผ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๋˜ Ezell์ด๋ž€ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์€ ์ด๋ฆ„ ๋ ˆ์„œํ”ผ์™€ ๊ฐ€๊ฒŒ๋“ค์„ ๋„˜๊ธฐ๊ณ  ์ƒˆ๋กœ “Stephen Ezell์ด ์šด์˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์ฒœ๋„์น˜ํ‚จ”์„ ์—ด์—ˆ๋‹ค…

์ด ์ฒœ๋„์น˜ํ‚จ์€ ๋ง๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ์ง€ ๋จน์–ด๋ณธ ์ ์ด ์—†๋˜ํ„ฐ๋ผ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์‹œ์ผœ๋จน์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ..์ผ๋‹จ ๋™๋„ค์˜ Ezellํ•˜๊ณ  ์ฐจ์ด๊ฐ€ ๋ญ”์ง€ ์ž˜๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์†”์ง ํ‰๊ฐ€…๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ํŽ˜๋ฆฌ์นด๋‚˜๋‚˜ KFC ๊ฐ€ ๋‚ณ์„๋“ฏ…

(ํ•œํŽธ ์กธ๋ฆฌ๋น„ ์น˜ํ‚จํ‰์ด ์•„์ฃผ ์ข‹์€๋ฐ ๊ทธ๊ฑด ์กธ๋ฆฌ๋น„๋ฅผ ๊ธฐ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ๋Š”๊ฒŒ ์‰ฝ์ง€ ์•Š์„๋“ฏ…ํ•œ๋ฒˆ ์‹œ๋„ํ–ˆ๋‹ค ์ค„๋ณด๊ณ  ๊ธฐ์ ˆ…ใ…Žใ…Ž)

Happened to find famous Heaven Sent…tasted good but i wondered where the Heaven is vs. Ezell Chicken

2023.10

Alaska 381: Dallas/Ft.ย Worth to Seattle

๋“œ๋””์–ด ์ด Round trip & long journey์˜ ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰ leg…

Seattle๋กœ ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ„๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  Alaska ๋น„ํ–‰๊ธฐ์˜ ํ‘ธ๋ฅด๋”ฉ๋”ฉ ๋„ค์˜จ ์ƒ‰์„ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ํƒ€๋‹ˆ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ํŽธํ•ด์ง€๋Š” ์‹ ๊ธฐํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜… ๐Ÿ™‚ Seattle์ดŒ๋†ˆ ๋‹ค๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐ..ใ…Ž (ํ•˜๊ธด 15๋…„+ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค…)

2023.10