Arches National Park Part 2

I apologized for the delay in posting the second part of our short trip to Arches National Park, we have been busy with weddings (to fund our trips)! The next day of our trip, we literally spent the full day in Arches National Park and saw (I shall say hiked) as much as we could…

Quick Weekend Trip to Arches National Park Part 1

A quick trip to Arches National Park to temporary relief my vacation bug! We took the night flight from Boston to Salt Lake City on Thursday after work scheduled to arrive after midnight at 12:24 am just half an hour to get our rental car before Thrifty closes at 1 am. We had a connection at…

Quick Trip to Arches National Park Planning

How can I possibly survive 8 months without vacation? Nope, I can’t! I must go somewhere even if it’s a mini vacation so I started to look. It happened to be National Park Service’s 100th birthday this year so a great reason to visit one of the beautiful national parks in the US! And in perfect…

Sugar Hill Lupines

Every time after each dreadful winter, I will forward to Spring especially for flower festivals but I haven’t been to one until now! Each time when I propose the idea to my husband, like let’s go to the cherry blossom festival at DC, he’ll say it’s not worth it for the short trip. I do agree unfortunately, a…

Memorial Day Weekend Road Trip

Last Labor’s Day weekend, we did a long weekend trip to Grand Canyon, Antelope Canyons, Horseshoe Bend, and Sedona, Arizona and it was amazing (you can read it here)! I realized I spent more time traveling outside the US than within the US. There are a lot of great places worth to explore in the…

A Rainy Day in Kauai

The weather forecast doesn’t look good at all! While waiting for 8 am to call the tour company, we prepared our frozen dinners as breakfast haha! I called Mauna Loa Helicopters and asked about my scheduled tour at 1:30 pm – she said she’ll need to wait for the pilot to make the decision as condition…

Kauai – the Garden Isle

Happy New Year! We started off our New Year heading to Kauai – the Garden Isle. Our flight was at 8:43 am and we got there at 7 am. Early morning in the open-air airport of Big Island, it was a bit chilly so take your sweater or hoodie with you! We sat near the…

Big Island Farmers’ Market

Wednesday is the farmers’ market day throughout the island! Some places even have on Saturday as well such as the big Hilo’s Farmers Market every Saturday and Wednesday! We had thought about going to Hilo but at the end decided it was not worth the trip across from Kona to Hilo. We woke up pretty…

Exploring the North Side of the Big Island

Waking up at 9 AM after a long day at the Volcano National Park yesterday was refreshing. I don’t like to waste precious vacation time sleeping but sometimes we need a good rest so we can recharge again! It was too late for breakfast so we decided an early lunch at 10 AM at Da…