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What has Mocha the Travelling Bear been up to?

This was originally posted back in 2017. Scroll past the grey box to see what Mocha has been to up to!

Week 21: Not Quite the End

Week 21: Your challenge post highlights and what you’ve learned during this challenge

The Travel Challenge ends here but Travel Tuesday will still live on though. I have plenty of other posts I can fill on Tuesdays with such as:

Mocha’s Travelling Photos
More travel stories. Based on a lot of my posts I can certainly branch out.

Interview stories featuring other bloggers who work full-time jobs not related to blogging. It’s one of my favorite posts to put together because I get to interview different bloggers from all over the world. I’ve lived in Southern California for most of my life and I meet a lot of transplants who move to SoCal for greener pastures. I like to ask “how’s it like living in [fill in the blank]?” I get these perplexed look to why I am so curious. I’ve been posting these interviews on Mondays for Motivation Monday, but I think it is fitting Travel Tuesday.

During this Travel Blogging Challenge I was surprised to learn I’ve traveled more than I thought. It was nice to pull some old pictures from the vault and give them some life.

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”

I learned through this travel challenge…and even through my travelling to not rush and see every country in the world. When I was in my 20s, I thought I got to go to this place, this place, and this place. But then I thought, if I really went to the places I wanted to go in my 20s, what is there left for me to do?

I drafted overly ambitious itineraries where there would goign through multiple cities and countries over the course of 2 days each. Then I revised it to something more realistic and we’d go on vacation and I’d wish we spend a few days more per stop.

“Rest and be thankful.”

Through this challenge, I’ve been an aggressive champion of taking breaks from work — whether it is taking a 15 minute break after every 90 minutes of work, a few hours of mental health breaks, or a few days off for vacation because you deserve it. The younger generation vacation shames because they praise work martyrdom to impress the upper management. Last Friday was my recent hit of vacation-shaming by a younger co-worker when she found out I was going on a week-long vacation. She goes “wow that’s a long time you may not have access to your work e-mail when you’re away.” First of all, it’s just one week (I wish it was two weeks) and second, it’s likely I won’t have access to my e-mail.

This same co-worker is going to Seattle to visit a friend on Friday and asked if she could remote in for work. Sure technology is great to be more connected to your job, but at this point we’re going too far. I was in Seattle for VACATION in May and did not remote in for a single meeting because it’s my vacation. Please cut the work addiction and take your PTO. When people are taking their time off, please respect it and face the fact they’re likely NOT going to respond.

Read more posts from the Travel Blogging Challenge:

Week 1: Your Favorite Travel Photo of You and Intro
Week 2: Little Known Travel Tips
Week 3: Funny Travel Story
Week 4: Travel Misadventures
Week 5: Top three cultural foods
Week 6: Unusual Travel Activities and Photos
Week 7: Inspiration for traveling
Week 8: 5 Favorite Blogs
Week 9: Gross/disgusting travel stories
Week 10: Best adventures while traveling
Week 11: What’s in my backpack?
Week 12: Happy and Sad Travel Stories
Week 13: Unique Cultures Encountered
Week 14: Top 3 Travel Destinations
Week 15: Travel Regrets
Week 16: Scary and Cool Travel Stories
Week 17: Things to Purge
Week 18: Humbling things learned from traveling
Week 19: Travel Confessions
Week 20: Travel bucket list (countries/activities)

Who else is doing the challenge?

Journey Through the Trees – Victoria
Wandering Outside the Box – Winta
Simply Emily – Emily
Benjamin Lessard – Benjamin

Week 20: Travel bucket list (countries/activities)

First I want to say, this has been an awesome stomach-churning World Series between the Dodgers and the Astros. I did hope for a long series and they are certainly delivering. The games are running past my bedtime throwing off my daily schedule, but it’s been so exciting!

Ahh yes, my travel series is almost over. This week’s theme is “My Travel Bucket List.” I apologize for my post pre-maturely published earlier today, I was not quite done yet. Yikes! It was a brain dump! Plus I’ve been distracted watching the World Series.

Here is my bucket list of travel activities:

Go on an African Safari
Go to a country on the otherside of the equator — ahh so many choices!
Go to the 24 Hour Le Mans race (my husband’s idea)
Go to the top of Pikes Peak in Colorado. My husband said there’s also a car race too.
Go to a Christmas Market in Europe
Camp out in a foreign country
Go to Greece — because it has been on my lifelong thing to do since high school
Another lifelong dream is to see the Northern Lights. I hope we get to see some in November.
Go to all 50 states — so far I’ve been to 23.
Take a trip on the Trans-Siberian railway
…and finally, create a scrapbook of all my travel experiences and tips. Of course it will be volume 1 followed by volume 2 and so on. As of now, a lot of my experiences are floating around different notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. One day, I’d like to set some time to compile them all in one place.

What is your on your travel bucketlist?

Tahoe, 2014

Read more posts from the Travel Blogging Challenge:

Who else is doing the challenge?

Journey Through the Trees – Victoria
Wandering Outside the Box – Winta
Simply Emily – Emily
Benjamin Lessard – Benjamin

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Week 19: Travel Confessions

Week 19: Confessions

For this post, I’ll list out a few travel confessions I am guilty of.

Sometimes I check my work e-mail during my vacation – Despite before my vacation I create an out-of-office reply, I check my e-mail and sometimes I *shudders* reply. When I was in Seattle in May, I kept checking e-mail on my phone until I was locked out. I took it as a sign I should stop looking at my work phone and enjoy my vacation, and going forward all my vacations. The last day of PTO was last week and I kept getting e-mails on a whereabouts for a projector during my day off. Gladly, I saw that e-mail when I came back to the office. It was a complete non-emergency — other departments have projectors available for loan.
I bring along a teddy bear for my travels – Yup, I bring a teddy bear around my travels. You’ll find more about Mocha, the travelling bear, for week 6 in the travel challenge. When we have kids, I hope they’ll find Mocha a wonderful gift. Psst…Vikki from Journey Through the Trees hosted Mocha in Montenegro for a week!
I’ve been pickpocketed once – I’ve been pickpocketed in Cinque Terre. It was one of the most embarassing things that has happened to me.
If we could, we would love to bring our dogs to our travels – I mean, just look at them! They’re a lot of fun!
We are not too old to travel – Blah, blah, blah… I always get the question, when are you having kids. We’ll have kids eventually and when we do, we’ll be sure…
Our kids travel will too – How are we going to afford that? Great question. We’re ok if we have to eat eggs, bread, and apples for a while. They’re not going to know the difference. I hope they learn to appreciate what a big world this is.

Read more posts from the Travel Blogging Challenge:

Who else is doing the challenge?

Journey Through the Trees – Victoria
Wandering Outside the Box – Winta
Simply Emily – Emily
Benjamin Lessard – Benjamin

Interested in participating in the Weekly Travel Blogging Challenge? Feel free to make your own today!

Week 18: Learn a Language

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

– Nelson Mandela

Week 18: Humbling things learned from traveling

When I go outside of a (non-English speaking) country, I am impressed to the locals who can speak English and speak English well. Also I feel guilty and embarassed on the behalf of America. If you go to America, you’ll find people speak English and nothing else. I wish in America we invested more in foreign language learning and culture immersion.

In America, majority of students learn foreign language in high school. The minimum requirement to study a foreign language is 2 years and majority do not retain it. I have a coworker who had two kids take Spanish classes since they were in kindergarten to their senior year of high school. They went on a trip to Mexico and their kids forgot all their Spanish. I was surprised because I would think if you took so many years of formal study you’d be able to speak Spanish professionally at the work place.

When I was at high school, I took four years of French and I chose to retain it. I worked hard to retain it; I continue to read in French, write even though I have no one to write to, listen to French movies and music, and if I come across someone who is native of France or other Franchophone nations, I make conversation. It’s been my gateway for the love of language.

Whenever I plan a trip to a foreign country, I study the language enough to get myself by — I learn numbers, asking for things I want, food, directions, salutations, where’s the bathroom, etc. I know there is a highly likely chance the locals will interact with in English. Languages I learned were Khmer, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, Italian, German, and…currently Spanish and Icelandic. Spanish because naturally, I live in Los Angeles. It would certainly help me professionally as long as I work in human services field. My goal with Spanish is to be as proficient as French. I am learning Icelandic because we’re going to Iceland.

And people ask me why am I making this effort. When I was in university, I met a lot of international students who studied in America learning American university, culture, and you guessed it…English. Doesn’t it make sense the other way around?

For examples, you go to Paris because love the Eiffel tower, macarons, the food, buildings, culture, etc. but it’s surprising that those who go to Paris don’t dare learn the language. Also think about other places in the world. If you don’t make any effort to learn a bit of the language — isn’t that a dick move to show you don’t care and you’re a lingo-centric jackhole?

Also don’t make excuses that the [fill in the blank] language is hard. English is hard and so many internationals make an effort to learn English to make their foot in America because it’s the language of opportunity and money. When I interview international students for internship position, I think it’s brave of them to go through an interview in English, their second (third, or fourth) language.

Also you can say I am an aspiring polyglot. I think it is badass to have learned and applied so many languages over the years. I get to open up and speak to more people.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (2012)

Read more posts from the Travel Blogging Challenge:

Who else is doing the challenge?

Journey Through the Trees – Victoria
Wandering Outside the Box – Winta
Simply Emily – Emily
Benjamin Lessard – Benjamin

Interested in participating in the Weekly Travel Blogging Challenge? Feel free to make your own today!

Week 17: Leaving books behind

This week’s topic for the Weekly Travel Challenge is “Things to Purge.”

When I travel for work, I like to bring a couple of books with me to read to keep myself entertained during my train ride or flight. I like to give my eyes a break from looking at screens all day. I cherish those moments because it gives me time to breathe after running around at work all day.

Whenever I finish a book during my travel, I like to leave them around at public spaces hoping it would be picked up by the next person. The last book I left was on Thursday, I was taking a train to Irvine for a work-related conference. I finished The Wangs vs. The World by Jade Chang during my train ride and decided leave the book on the train.

Why do I let go of my books?

The obvious answer is I have less stuff to carry around, but importantly, I believe in sharing my books to the world.

Maybe I just have this romantic idea that whoever picks up the book, would find it a nice surprise.

I hope they may find inspiration and open up their mind. In this case, with The Wangs vs. the World, they would be inspired to take a cross-country road. Or learn not all Asians are good in math or science.

…or maybe whoever picks it up, they donate it to the library and it’s borrowed by someone else.

…or it ends up in the lost-and-found bin.

…or it ends up in the trash. Maybe someone dumpster dives?

That’s the book’s journey.

I left a few books this year in cafes, little free libraries, train stations, and other public spaces wondering who will read it next.

What do you let go?

Read more posts from the Travel Blogging Challenge:

Who else is doing the challenge?

Journey Through the Trees – Victoria
Wandering Outside the Box – Winta
Simply Emily – Emily
Benjamin Lessard – Benjamin

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Week 16: Ziplining

Week 16: Scary and cool travel stories

Not scary, more like thrilling and cool! One day I’d like to write about 100 Travel experiences one should do in their lifetime. In my book, I would certainly include a ziplining tour. It does not matter where; it could be in Catalina island, Denali National Park, Zion Canyon. How badass is it to do an aerial tour over a canyon?

My first time I did ziplining was last year in Costa Rica. I was a little scared. I thought to myself, “what did I sign up myself for?” Sure I wrote the itinerary way back when. Sure this is one of the things to do in Costa Rica. You are flying above the trees. Nothing is below you except that landing pad on the other side of the zipline.

My husband flies free

Oh dear if there was no landing pad it’s straight down to the forest floor.

Whatever my initials fears were up to the tour, wiped away after my first launch. In the air I thought, “I can’t believe I am doing this.” I wished I zipped slower to take in the views. Such a unique experience!

Have you gone ziplining? If so, where?

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Week 15: Focus on the present and what is good

Week 15: Travel Regrets

My travel regret is to have never done a study abroad whether it was a yearlong or even a week. This is a MAJOR thing I wished I changed in my twenties. At the time I was working as a waitress to pay for the school items, rent, entertainment, clothes, and whatever my financial aid could not cover. If I could afford to take an (unpaid) internship even if it’s 8 hours per week, I would.

And ugh…the biggest one was…at the time I was in an on-and-off relationship that should have ended 2 months in my sophomore year but lasted for an awful, tumultuous 2 years. That was a waste of time. Once I broke free, I enjoyed the remainder of what was left of my university years. All the things I did before dating that guy were on hiatus. Before that guy, I went to France, Japan, Canada, and 24 of the states in the U.S. and wanted to go to more.

If I were to turn back the clock to my freshmen year, I would not mind being single and NOT dating anybody all four years. I’d be happier and I would not have to “stay put” to fix anything. Maybe I would have traveled abroad during my college years even if it means my diet would consist of only ramen noodles, spinach, and apples.

Instead wistfully thinking of all the things I could have done right during my university years, I am going to focus on the present and what is good.

After university, I was lucky I found a full-time professional job two weeks after graduation. It was 2009 and we were still in the recession. There were not a lot of entry level professional jobs at the time. It looks like my superpower was that I knew people and these people I worked well. I knew people who boasted extensive resume of internships during their university years who still could not find a job for a year after graduation.

Also of course through my 20s I traveled a fair amount. I went to Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, New York, Italy, Costa Rica, and in November I’m going to Iceland. I’ve revisited a lot of national parks, camped out a few nights, revisited San Francisco and Seattle many times over, and oh yeah…we went to Portland.

I may have not had that dream university experience but that is ok. After college, I worked really hard to get that life I wanted and it was more than I ever ask for. Maybe that is why I am ambivalent about grad school. I am simply enjoying life.

Status on grad school? About that, I applied and they asked for letters of recommendations and I could start in spring. For me, it gave me some time to incubate my thoughts. Between July to now, I was so exhausted with my work travel and the feel of being pulled in so many directions. I barely gave it any thought. In fact, I realized with my work load at that time, how would I dedicate my time to school if I am feeling so burnt out all the time? I plan to continue to work full-time while doing my Master’s, but my concern is what if I’m not too putting in my all because I’m tired all the time.

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Week 13: Scandinavian, Hmong, American

Week 13: Unique Cultures Encountered

To start off, I am not well-versed some of the cultures listed below these are just my observations to why I think they’re unique.

Scandinavian

When I was in Cambodia, I met a traveler named Ida who was from Norway. The first thing I said was, “Norway?! I hear you’re the happiest country in the world! I read an article about that!” Next to us were these travelers from Denmark who said, “Denmark is also a happy country too. We have free healthcare, free university education — we’ve got a wonderful system!” I thought it was crazy to hear two nationalities making claim on which is the happier country. In America, we tend to dwell on the negative as a coping mechanism. Those who are positive and happy are told to tone it down — I’ve been intervened many times to put the brakes on my ebullience. To me, it was so refreshing to hear people who are proud to happy. I should be shamelessly proud to be happy too.

Hmong

Hmong people are an ethnic group who are from the mountains bordering Southern China, Vietnam, Thailand and Laos. I never met a Hmong person until I lived in San Diego. I did not even pronounce the word “Hmong” properly for a long time either. In San Diego is a strong cultural identity with the Hmong people. I attended the Hmong New Year’s festival every year which happened in late November or early December. This is different from other Asian New Years: Filipinos celebrate western New Year’s in January, Chinese/Vietnamese/Korean New Year’s is in February, and Thai and Cambodian New Year’s happen in April. Hmong New Year’s is different from other New Year’s because it’s 3 full days of events to celebrate the new year, thank their ancestors and the spirits, and the harvest (like Thanksgiving).

prom-2011-prom-movie-27121028-1920-1080 — That is not a picture of my high school prom.

United States

I have to put the United States here because I did not realize people found American culture so interesting until I went outside of the United States. Because there are so many movies set in America and is distributed worldwide, people get more than a glimpse of American culture. When I travel, I get funny questions such as:

Did you go to your prom? (Yes. You don’t have prom.)
What did you wear to your prom? (I wore a long, gold dress.)
Was prom like the movies? (If I had a movie, sure, but maybe too boring to play in theatres.)
Are fraternities rowdy like in the movies? (I guess so…I lived next to a fraternity house in. They make the inductees run naked around the intersection and they had wild parties.)
Did you have a curfew growing up? (Yes)
Is true you all work a lot? (Yes and I am trying to change that.)

These were things I never thought about before until I got asked. I guess we obsess over the coming-of-age season of prom and the college years. In movies they’re suppose to be the best years of our lives. (Not true. Life after those years are good, if not, better). Based on the questions asked, we are portrayed as sheltered because the world is scary and we praise work too much because work-a-holism is coping mechanism too.

Any cultures you’d like with share that are unique to you? Comment below!

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Week 12: Hey, You!

Week 12: Happy and sad travel stories

Travel Tuesday is back! I just came back from a 3-day camping trip in Sequoia. Today I am taking an extra day off to clean and get back into the swing of things before tomorrow’s business trip to San Diego.

I initially wanted to share both a happy and sad story, but for this prompt, I’ll stick to the sad story because it’s more of a call to action. I would hate to have my happy story to eclipse this serious issue.

One time I was at a hotel bar in Sihaunookville, Cambodia ordering a coffee. I paid, I received change and walked back to the car with my travelmates. When we were about to leave, the girl who took my order said I never paid. I told her I only had a 20 in my wallet and received the correct change. I counted the change in front of her and she was still steaming and continued to say I still owe her a dollar. A couple of her coworkers joined her and said, “we were at the bar too and we did not see you pay. We have video.” Maybe she was embarrassed I declined to give her another dollar and her coworkers came to her in sodality, because come on, American tourist, “it’s just a dollar. It’s nothing to you.” The hotel owner came to the rescue and apologize for the misunderstanding. The chances are she was most likely trying to hustle me for a dollar, not because she forgot. Maybe she thought I had more bills in my wallet.

Sihaunookville, 2012

Through every town I’ve gone through in Cambodia, I would see kids congregate around a beach towel on the street looking for the next person to ask for a dollar or to buy something. Some of the can become aggressive and heckle when you say “no”. During my trip, I did not give in to giving a single dollar to a begging kid because I was warned far in advanced and repeatedly to not give in. At Sihaunookville, I almost gave in because I tend to be a sucker. This girl was smart, she caught me in the right time to shame me in front of my travelmates.

Sihanoukville, 2012

These kids should be in school! It’s sad to learn their parents are not supportive of their schooling. Cambodia is an impoverish country with a lack of assets, domestic product, democracy, access to finance, and investment in education. Education in Cambodia is not compulsory as it is here in the U.S.. The parents in Cambodia see their kid’s education as a financial burden because they need to purchase school supplies, uniforms, and other school fees. With this being said…

My call to action is to support kids and their families in Cambodia. Please check out these organizations below:

Volunteer Development Children’s Association (VDCA): An NGO based in Siem Riep operating the Free School offering children free English classes, computer classes, hygiene, and other courses.
UNICEF: Donate to UNICEF to support children and their families such providing clean water, better healthcare, and technology.

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Week 11: Packing for my trip

Week 11: What’s in my backpack?

My trip to Sequoia and Kings Canyon is happening in a couple of weeks. This post could not happen in a more timely manner because I need to get organized and start packing!

The last time I went to Sequoia was back in 2012 with a few friends. We backpacked 4 miles up a mountain and made camp by this lake. It was beautiful to have this crystal clear lake as our front yard for a few days.

What am I packing in my backpack?

Backpack: Osprey from REI

There’s another backpack I’ll pack: this little daypack for our day trips from Outdoor Products. It’s been my standby for my 52 Hike Challenge since the beginning of the year. As you can see, Teddy is sniffing through my daypack because I have…

…loads and loads of snacks! These are not for you, Teddy — and for any dog!

I love RXBars! I always carry these on my hiking trips because they’re delicious. I can’t wait to share these with my friends!

Then there’s trail mix and dried fruits — more staple snacks for my hikes.

Teddy insists to be in the photoshoot. I mean comes he back again. This is good. Teddy clearly markets to me (and to the blog) that modeling is one of his skills.

Of course in my backpack, I pack dog treats during the hikes. It keeps them motivated

Notes to self: I need to buy another bag of dental chews. Not pictured is their dog food and Teddy’s camera bashful brother, Koda.

Beauty products — as you can see I use them. Starting with the Garden Godess Suncreen and clockwise:

Garden Goddess Sunscreen – It’s a physical sunscreen and I warn you, you need to scrub hard to remove it. Otherwise it’s great for the outdoors.
Trader Joe’s Green Tea Soap
Lush Seanik Solid Shampoo – This has been wonderful for travel. No more bulky bottles!
Sappo Hill Bar Soap in Oatmeal – I use this to wash my face.
Heritage Store Rosewater and Glycerin water – Great as a toner!
Odacite facial oil in Blueberry and Jasmine – Odacite is one of my favorite skin care brands because it’s so effective. This one is one of my favorites because it smells nice.
Aura Cacia Nightime Baobab oil – My night time oil
Alba Botanica Senstive Mineral Sunscreen – I use this for my face daily before makeup
Target brand contact lense solution

More beauty products to pack:

Nourish Organics Eye Treatment Cream – I love how this feels around my eyes!
One Love Organics Dry Shampoo – I won’t be surprise if I use this for most days.
Evanhealy Lemongrass Face Polish – I like to use this in the morning or at night. It smells nice!
Schmihdt’s Deodorant in Lavender and Sage – My favorite deodorant so far!

For entertainment, I will pack the Exploding Kittens Card game. It’s been a hit in parties and it’s easy to pack.

I will also pack a bullet journal to record any inspiration and collect stickers and other memorabilla. I picked up this paperback book at a used bookstore a couple of days ago. I got this because I like Kashuo Ishiguro and it’s paperback so it’s easy to travel with.

This is clearly not everything for the camping trip. After reviewing the photos, I did not picture my lavender oil — which is effective in getting rid of bug bites, bug spray, sleeping bag, tent, and food.

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Week 10: Some of my many favorite adventures

Week 10: Best adventures while traveling

I am going to begin this post but going off-topic. My friend who I’ve known since my college years inquired about starting a blog. We met in LA and it’s funny how we kept in touch after all these years. I moved to San Diego, she moved to Monterey Bay. I moved back to LA, and she moved back to El Salvador. I think she should go for it :-).

It’s Travel Tuesday and I am halfway through the challenge. So far it’s been fun writing all about my adventures and an excuse to pull out some old photos. I am not sure how to organize this post, so why not just list down my many favorite adventures!

Monteverde Cloud Forest Tour – This was from my Costa Rica trip last year. I loved how everything was so green and the fauna was so diverse!

Ziplining – When you are in Costa Rica, you got to go zip-lining. It’s quite a unique 360 experience of the absorbing the rainforest around you.

Going on a boat –– really any activity on a boat is fun. Unless you get seasick.

Me on a boat from Amalfi to Capri

Taking public transit – I enjoy taking the train whether it’s Amtrak at home, the Trenitalia in Italy, or the subway in Paris.

Hiking the Amalfi Coast, National Parks, cities — hike anywhere really… Just go outside!

Mt. Tre Cali at Amalfi Coast

Yosemite, CA

Sequoia, Kings Canyon, CA

Me wandering around Florence, Italy

A lot of times, my adventures are local. I like going to quirky events like the Lego exhibit in Glendale, driving all the way down to San Pedro after work to see the large rubber duck, or taking the subway to downtown LA to see large inflatable bunnies.

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– Nelson Mandela

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