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Northern California (& a little bit of Oregon) road trip, Jun 2025
Here comes my Northern California road trip. It was no well planned, but we had fun! I won’t recommend people to follow our exact footprint – you can do much better than us! But saying which, even with minimum planning, we gained a quite wonderful vacation. This region of the Pacific West is just great.…
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New Mexico, An abandoned road trip
I’m in Santa Fe, NM, for the 2025 Low Temperature Detector conference. I was quite excited about coming here back in spring and was planning (in my head, mostly) a big road trip: Start from LA, the western end of the historical 66. Then follow the mother road all the way to Albuquerque. After the…
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Something New! A Sewing Machine!
The latest new idea is to sew. I guess I’m giving up on becoming a serious scientist. I like easier job, especially those can give me immediate feedbacks. I made a quick purchase online — SINGER4452. It’s a heavy duty sewing machine and will arrive home on Friday. It’s my new toy and I will…
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There is no bad place to die
There is no bad place To die Nor a bad time You get on a train after a hard day of work With the dream of being fit in your nonexistent future life The train crashes One in to another Ashes flying around Your soul wanders out of the carriage In to the dark tunnel…
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What happened to my Yosemite Backpacking trip last August
It’s the trip I talked about last year. You might think that we bailed on it. We actually DID it. Just that we took a route very different from the original plan. We started at noon on the first day from the white wolf camp and walked along the Middle Tuolumne River. We camped for…
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Yosemite Backpacking in prep: Tenaya Lake, to Sunrise Camp, to Cathedral Lakes, to Tuolumne Meadows
Now I’m planning for a Yosemite trip. I think I really need that. Throw myself out there and focus all my energy on surviving. No social pressure! Just hug the bears! It will be my very first backpacking trip. The desired point of attractions we would like to visit including the Sunrise Lakes, the Cathedral…
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Thoughts of relief
I probably can’t get anything done today, not even in a year. But in ten years, I should have a fair chance of accomplishments. In the past ten years, I did get somethings done. I did what I was supposed to do: finish college, go to graduate school, and get a PhD. Well, in the…