Death Valley

Looking at this cloud in the dusk, you will notice that this place is not a common place. In the Gold Rush days, a group of gold rushers thought this was a shortcut to their destination, so into it they went. They never came out. Thus the name, "Death Valley". It was 52C the day we were there. (Human body temperature is 36.5C). [A Nice Restuarant] [Sand Dune] [Devil's Cornfield] [Leaving Death Valley] [Inn] [Oasis] [Farewell, Death Valley]

Yosemite

Water, tree and rock together make beautiful scenes. Yosemite has the best of them all, waterfalls, forests and mountains. Even in Chinese, "Yosemite" sounds similar as "the most beautiful place". [Mountains] ["Pasture"] [Mountain and lake] [Climbing]

Everything is a picture at Yosemite. [Overlooking Indian Village] [Lakeside] [Paradise] [Waterfall] [Brook] [At lower falls]

Stanford

I went to Stanford several times. I would say that the tourists in Stanford are much more friendly than the people actually working there. Nevertheless, the campus is still very beautiful. [This road reminds me of Tsinghua University] [Jordan Hall 1] [Jordan Hall 2]