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On a bright and beautiful autumn day, we, three including our daughter, ventured out to see fall colors around ‘Mt. Rainier National Park’ and its surrounding areas, Naches, Yakima and Umtanum, WA. We set out driving southeast along US Hwy 410, skirting along east side of Mt. Rainier down to Yakima. From there, heading to the north we followed WA821 (instead of I-82) for about 20 miles and merged into I-90 to return home. The 20-mile stretch of WA821 through the American Indian towns, like Umtanum, is a gorgeous scenic highway along ‘Yakima River,’ and a railroad track along the other side across the river.






























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Chambers Bay Golf Course was the venue for the 2015 US Open and is located in University Place, WA, some 20 miles from our house in Puyallup, WA. It is a links course along the Puget Sound Bay, and measures 7,124 yards from the pro’s tee. You’ll have to walk the whole length with a caddie to play the course.
In the first photo below our family, wife and daughter, were celebrating my 85th birthday at Anthony’s at Point Defiance Park in Tacoma, several miles north of Chambers Bay GC. A large white ferry in the background shuttles between this park and Vashion Island, one of many islands in the Puget Sound. To the right of the ferry is shown snow/cloud covered Mt. Rainier, the tallest mountain in the US West, some 14,400 feet high.





























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Photo, caption, & essay by Charles Kim; October, 2024




















































































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‘Tacoma 중앙장로교회’ ‘Enoch 선교회’ 여름철 야유회 Picnic을 Gig Harbor, WA에 있는 한국인 소유 ‘Yang’s Nursery’ 에서 갖게되어 일행 30여명이 하루 나절 즐거운 Picnic 여행을 가졌다.















































































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Seattle에 있는 UWMC (University of Washington Medical Center) 에서 건강 검진을 받고 집으로 돌아오는 길 중간 지점에 가까운 ‘Dash Point State Park’ [in Federal Way, WA; 이 도시는 Seattle 남쪽 20 miles에 위치하고, 또 우리집이 있는 Puyallup, WA 소도시 북쪽 20 miles 지점에 위치하고 있다]를 들려, 우리 가족 셋이서 Picnic 점심도 먹어며 State Park의 주위 경관을 둘러보는 귀한 기회를 가졌다.


















