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Los Angeles

Los Angeles In my trip, we drove a total of 5800 miles, through nine states, crossing WA, ID, MT, WY, UT, CO, AZ, NV and CA. We explored world wonders, magnificent, beyond beauty America’s great west National Parks, cities and country. I think the best National Park is Yellowstone National Park, then Grand Canyon and Zion National Park. Yellowstone National Park covers a vast area, with mountains and water and lakes, waterfalls, rivers, mountains snow and glaciers. Also rare things such as hot springs, hot mud fountains and wildlife. Compare to China’s top tourist spots such as Huangshan(Yellow Mountain), Jiuzhaigou are small, nice and pretty, but too crowded. Speaking of China, this time in Salt Lake City, and the Grand Canyon I saw group after group of Chinese tourists, speaking loud Mandarin, there with high-end cameras. These Chinese people are really rich. I often felt that in some places was cursory, not enough time. I think that as long as I can still drive, run, and hike, I will go again. The summary of the following experiences, travel necessities are car GPS unit, iPhone and iPad. Smart phones usually have no service in most of the national parks. However, when you drive near a city or town, iPhone/iPad will have some data signal. I use it to book a hotel for the night of online. Generally it’s available for a discount price. Summers in North America, daylight is as long as 16 hours. That means one day is equal two days for your travel and sightseeing. On I-90

Drive of the Sun Time Lapse

The journey begins in the clouds 10000 feet from sea level and descends down Haleakalā’s volcanic winding roads. The landscape changes from volcanic rocks to lush green trees as the vehicle twist and turns down the road. Watch the shadows and sun play to the beat of the beautiful music of Blue Hawaii’s “Lilac”. Early Hawaiians applied the name Haleakalā (“house of the sun”) to the general mountain. In Hawaiian folklore, the depression at the summit of Haleakalā was home to the grandmother of the demigod Māui. According to the legend, Māui’s grandmother helped him capture the sun and force it to slow its journey across the sky in order to lengthen the day. Haleakalā’ Volcano was thought to have last erupted around 1790. The time lapse video consists of over 5000 pictures using two Gopro cameras. Shot after sunrise. Video By Holden Cambaliza Vincent T Joachim Edited By Vincent T Joachim Title Screen Photo By Holden Cambaliza Music By Blue Hawaii – Lilac (Music was formatted to fit length of video) www.myspace.com 2012