Indiana Dunes

Michigan City์—์„œ ํ•˜๋ฃจ ๋ฐค์„ ๋ณด๋‚ด๊ณ  ์›๋ž˜๋Š” ์•„์นจ์— Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore์˜ West Beach๋กœ ํ–ฅํ•˜๋ ค ํ–ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ๊ณต์›์ด ์•„์นจ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์—ด์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ์‚ฌํƒœ ๋ฐœ์ƒ…๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ์ฐจ์„ ์ฑ…์œผ๋กœ ๋‚จ์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋™ํ•ด์„œ ์‚ฝ์งˆ์ข€ ํ•˜๋‹ค ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ๋‚˜๋ฆ„ ํŒŒ๋„์น˜๋Š” Lake Michigan์ด๋ž‘ Sand Dunes๋ฅผ ์ž˜ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์™”๋‹ค..

Started the day of return to Seattle early by attempting to hike around Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore but got blocked to the fact park only opens from 8AM ๐Ÿ˜ฆ After having 5 min walk in National Park, we had a quick detour to one nice park in Gary, IN

2023.7

Morning in Yakima

์•ผ๋ผ๋งˆ์˜ ์•„์นจ…

์—ฌ์ง€๊ป ๋‹น์ผ์น˜๊ธฐ๋‚˜ ์ง€๋‚˜๊ฐ€๋ฉด์„œ ๋ฐฅ/๊ธฐ๋ฆ„๋งŒ ๋„ฃ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์บ ํ•‘๋งŒ ์™”์—ˆ๋˜ Yakima ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ˆ™๋ฐ•ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Realized I never had a “night” in Yakima other than stop-over, day trip, or camping.

2022.2

‘Seattle’ in the directions :)

๋งˆ์นจ๋‚ด Portland๋ฅผ ์ง€๋‚˜ Washington์ฃผ ์ง„์ž… ๋ง‰ํŒ์— Washington์—์„œ ๋ˆˆ์ด ์ข€ ๋‚ด๋ ค ๊ธด์žฅํ•˜๊ธด ํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ๋ž˜๋„ ๋ฌด์‚ฌ ํ†ต๊ณผ.. ๋‹จ ๋„์ฐฉ 1์‹œ๊ฐ„์ „๋ถ€ํ„ฐ Windshield Washer์•ก์ด ๋‹ค ๋–จ์–ด์ ธ์„œ ์ฐจ ์•ž๋’ท ์œ ๋ฆฌ์ฐฝ์ด ๋“œ๋Ÿฌ์›Œ์ง€๋Š”๊ฑธ ๊นจ๋—์ด ๋ชป๋”ฑ์•„ ์ข€ ๋ถˆํŽธํ–ˆ์ง€๋งŒ ๋ฌด์‚ฌํžˆ ๋„์ฐฉํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

๋™๋„ค์— ์™€๋ณด๋‹ˆ ํ•œํŒŒ ๋ฐ ํญ์„ค์— ๋™๋„ค ๊ณจ๋ชฉ๊ธธ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ๋Š” ๋ˆˆ๋ฐญ์ด์—ˆ๊ณ  ๋‹คํ–‰ํžˆ๋„ ์ง‘์€ ๋ฌดํƒˆ…ํœด ๐Ÿ™‚

์ด๋กœ์จ… distancingํ•œ๋‹ต์‹œ๊ณ  ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ๋ชฐ๊ณ ์„œ 5๊ฐœ์ฃผ๋ฅผ ๋ŒํŒŒํ•˜๊ณ , 6๊ฐœ ๋„์‹œ์—์„œ ์ž ์„ ์ฒญํ–ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ (์—ฐ๋ง์— expire๋˜๋Š” ์ˆ™๋ฐ•๊ถŒ๋“ค ๋‹ค ์“ฐ๊ณ  ์™”๋‹ค..ใ…Žใ…Ž), ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์Œ์‹๋“ค์„ ๋จน์œผ๋ฉฐ (๋ฒ„๊ฑฐ, ์ˆœ๋Œ€๊ตญ, ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ถ€ํ, ํ™์ฝฉ๋ฐ˜์ , ํŒŸํƒ€์ด, ์ƒŒ๋“œ์œ„์น˜, Brunch, ํ˜ธํ…” ์กฐ์‹) 1๊ฐœ์˜ ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ๊ณต์›๊ณผ 1๊ฐœ์˜ ๋†€์ด๋™์‚ฐ์„ ๊ฑฐ์น˜๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์‹ญ๊ฐœ์˜ ‘๋ น’์„ ๋„˜๋‚˜๋‹ค๊ฐ€ Tax์—†๋Š” ๊ณณ Outlet์— ๋“ค๋ ค์„œ ์˜ท๋„์ข€ ์‚ฌ๊ณ … 3,100๋งˆ์ผ 8๋ฐ•9์ผ ์—ฌํ–‰ ๋ฌดํƒˆํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋Œ์•„์™”๋‹ค. ์ด์ œ๋Š” ๋ช‡์ผ๊ฐ„ ํœด์‹๊ณผ ๊ฒฉ๋ฆฌ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ƒˆํ•ด ์‹œ์ž‘…

Finally home ๐Ÿ™‚ I always feel I am at home whenever I start to see Seattle in the destination boards ๐Ÿ™‚

2021.12

Manastash Ridge & Kennewick

์ฒซ๋‚  ๋„˜์€ ๋‘๋ฒˆ์งธ ์‚ฐ๋งฅ… Yakima๋ฅผ ๊ด€ํ†ตํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค์Œ ๋ น์— ๋‹ค์Œ๋‚  ์•„์นจ์— ๊ทธ์นœ๋‹ค๊ณ  ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ˆˆ์„ ํ”ผํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  Manhattan Project๋™๋„ค Kennewick์—์„œ (์˜ˆ์ •์— ์—†๋˜) ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ƒˆ๋‹ค..

์‚ฌ๋ง‰ ์‚ฐ์— ๋ˆˆ์ด ๋ฎ์ด๊ธฐ ์žฅ๊ฒฝ์ด ํŽผ์ณ์กŒ๊ณ  ๋Œ€๊ฐ์„ ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฐ ๊ด€๊ณ„๋กœ 4์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ฐ€๊นŒ์ด ๋‹ฌ๋ ธ์–ด๋„ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ Washington์„ ๋ชป๋– ๋‚˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

Never imagined how things will look once the desert mountains get snow coating

2021.12

Aberdeen, WA

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Seattle Grunge์˜ ์„ฑ์ธ๊ธ‰์ธ Kurt Cobain์˜ ๊ณ ํ–ฅ Aberdeen… ํ—ˆ๋‚˜, ์˜จ ๋™๋„ค๊ฐ€ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๊ณผ์†ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์•ˆํ•˜๋‚˜๋งŒ ์ง€์ผœ๋ณด๋Š”๊ฑฐ ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ธฐ๋ถ„…

์ด ๋™๋„ค๋Š” ๊ณผ์† ์—„์ฒญ ์žก๊ณ , (๋„์‹œ๊ฐ€ ์ง€๋ฐฉ๊ตญ๋„๊ธ‰ ๊ธธ์—์„œ ๋ฐ”๋กœ ์‹œ์ž‘๋˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ œํ•œ์†๋„๊ฐ€ ๊ธ‰๊ฒฉํžˆ ๋–จ์–ด์ง) ์žก์œผ๋ฉด ๋ˆ ์—„์ฒญ ๋•Œ๋ ค๋จน๋Š” ์ „ํ†ต์œผ๋กœ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•œ๋ฐ.. ์ด๋ฒˆ ์งง์€ ์—ฌํ–‰์˜ ์••๊ถŒ๋ฌ˜๋ฏธ๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ๋‚ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋’ค์—์„œ 10๋ถ„๊ฐ„ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ์ถ”๊ฒฉํ•œ ์ผ.. ์–ด๋‘์šด ๊ธธ์„ ๋‹ฌ๋ ค๊ฐ€๋Š”๋ฐ ๋’ค์— ์ฐจ๋“ค์ด ๊ฐ‘์ž๊ธฐ ์ค„์ง€์–ด ์˜ค๋ฉด์„œ ์ถ”์›”์„ ์•ˆํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ธธ๋ž˜ ์ž์„ธํžˆ ๋ดค๋”๋‹ˆ ๋‚ด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋’ท ์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์ฐจ – ์•„๋ฌด๋„ 2์ฐจ์„ ๊ธธ์—์„œ๋„ ์•„๋ฌด๋„ ์ถ”์›”ํ•  ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ชป๋‚ด์„œ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋“ฏ…ใ…Žใ…Ž (์—ญ์‹œ ์œ ๋ช…ํ•ด..)

๋‚˜๋„ ์•…์— ๋ฐ›ํ˜€์„œ ์ œํ•œ ์†๋„ ๋ณด๋‹ค 3-4 mile์€ ๋‚ฎ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด๋†“๊ณ  ๋‹ฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฉด์„œ 10๋ถ„๊ฐ„ ์‹ค๊ฐฑ์ด/์‚ฌํˆฌ(?)๋ฅผ ๋ฒŒ๋ ธ๋‹ค. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ, ๊ฑด์งˆ๊ฒƒ ์—†์–ด์„œ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ์ง€ 10๋ถ„ํ›„, ๋‚ด ์ฐจ๊ฐ€ ์ขŒํšŒ์ „ ์ฐจ์„ ์— ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋‹ˆ ์œ ์œ ํžˆ ์ง์ง„๊ธธ๋กœ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ ธ์ฃผ์…จ๋‹ค – ํœด, ์•„๋งˆ 10๋ถ„๊ฐ„ ๋ชจ๋“ ๊ฑธ ๋‹ค ์กฐ์‚ฌํ–ˆ์„๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.. ์ฐจ๋Ÿ‰์„ธ ๋ƒˆ๋Š”์ง€ ๋“ฑ๋“ฑ๋„ ์•„๋งˆ ๊ทธ ๋™์•ˆ ๋‹ค ์กฐ์‚ฌํ–ˆ์„๊ฐ.. ๋’ค์—์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋‹ˆ ๋Œ€๋žต 350๋ถˆ ๋ฒˆ ๋А๋‚Œ..ใ…ก.ใ…ก )

Hometown of famous Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, but to me this town feels like a big speedtrap town – as known to lots of folks with its extremely high penalty and hiding patrol cars around the streets in the town ๐Ÿ˜ฆ

At this run, a sheriff car was following me for 10 mins ๐Ÿ™‚

2019.5

Yakima Camping: Yakima Sportsman State Park & Barrett Orchards

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Yakima Camping: Yakima Sportsman State Park & Barrett Orchards

First time “staying” in Yakima other than passing thru/day trip.

All in all, hot & itchy weekend ๐Ÿ˜ฆ with mosquito bites, picking up nice cherries, authentic Mexican restaurant, and Despicable Me 3 at Yakima.. ๐Ÿ™‚

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