My October camping trip in Kings Canyon National Park, in [photo] review. Some does on our first trail :) you can walk through this tree!   So. Awesome. And that's that. It was a short weekend trip, staying at the Azalea campsite within Kings Canyon and taking little drives around to Sequoia National Forest. I really wanted to explore these forests after seeing...

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It's been months and months since I went on a summer trip to Hawaii so some of the details have already left me. Fortunately, I took as many photos as I could. I was born in Hawaii & after moving to San Diego as a child, I still visited the island/s too many times to count. Maui, however, was totally new to me...

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Yay! So I've finally found the time to write up an update for our upcoming trip. I've been busying myself with things like getting fit, to watching anime (haha)--everything & anything I can before work and school consume my life again. Though, I will admit, I haven't been very adamant about the gym for the past week & a half. Even though I've...

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Before I go on, here's the gist of the trip in photos: We arrived early Saturday morning & after a power nap we made our way to Vernal Falls. This is actually the flow coming down from it--don't be fooled, it's huge! Me, being cool + some snow higher up in the hike & closer to the falls--it looked as if we were...

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(Okay so I decided to post my "travel review" anyway. Copied from my other blog)) Post-Portland Post: Or more like my travel review & culture-shock post. Some locals may not like it. Eek  First of all, it was fun. It was really interesting—but it was the experience more so than the actual city. To be honest, I kept trying to remain unbiased about Portland...

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Better late than never: PORTLAND (Jan. 2013)! So a few posts back (which was actually 3 months ago), I briefly mentioned that I would be heading on a trip to Portland, Oregon. As a quick summary of this little adventure, I will say that it is very, very different from home here in Southern California. And I do mean that in a semi-bad...

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