Hey Alice Yeh!
Hey Alice Yeh!

December 2018

Sipping water at Tirta Empul in Bali

How to Experience a Holy Bathing Ritual in Bali

December 21, 201811 min read

One of my most memorable experiences in Bali was participating in a Hindu holy bathing ritual at Pura Tirta Empul. Bali is known as the Island of the Gods, and it’s definitely a very spiritual place. You can feel the energy in the air where there’s a bit of a magical charge in the...

🏞️ 2020 is the year of US National Parks! Since there will be no more international trips for the rest of the year and most likely 2021, it's all about exploring the great outdoors in the US.🚙 When I was a kid, my parents would pack us up and take us on road trips all around the US to visit the National Parks. As immigrants, they wanted to experience what the new home country had to offer.🏕️ Even though we never actually went camping (my first camping experience was during college with schoolmates), I was always amazed by the beauty that nature had to offer. The US is a huge, diverse country.😍 Needless to say, my love for travel and experiencing new things started at a young age.🤔 So I'm out here making the most of what's left in the year. Corona-what now? A girl's gotta what she's gotta do to stay sane and find ways to satisfy my travelholic wanderlust.🤩 Joshua Tree @joshuatreenps was just the first of many national parks this year. Off to Yellowstone and Grand Teton next! I have ideas for a few more before the year is over so there's still time for some vacation and fun! Life is short and we've got to make the most of it!
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear! ✌️
💼 I miss work travel! It was always an excuse for me to tack on a few extra days to play tourist in the city after my business meetings were over.🧳Before COVID, I traveled for work at least once every 2-3 months. Work and conferences brought me to Amsterdam, NYC, New Orleans, Austin, Vegas, Miami, Denver, Seattle, and LA over the last few years.✈️ Sure, traveling on business trips can be exhausting especially if you're on the road multiple times a month. But working in sales, building relationships are a huge part of my job.🧑‍💻 In-person meetings play a big role in getting things done. Zoom calls just don't cut it. Getting to know new clients over VC is just not quite the same. I miss that face-to-face interaction.💻 I have been finding it quite challenging to be as successful as I used to be. I'm still struggling to find ways around this. But we must adapt and adjust since it doesn't look like I'll be doing any business travel for awhile.🤔 Who else can relate? Any advice?
🌈 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆! The appropriately named 100 foot tall 𝗥𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗯𝗼𝘄 𝗙𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 at Devils Postpile National Monument allows a rainbow to sparkle in the mist when the sun is overhead on a clear day.🏞️ The volcanic rock cliff here consists of two layers due to lava cooling at different rates. As the river plunges over the cliff, it wears away at the softer bottom layer. The water creates an opening that gets bigger over time as the rock erodes away. Until eventually, the top rock layer loses its supporting bottom layer and caves in.💧 Waterfalls are so beautiful to look at that sometimes you forget how powerful water can be over time. A reminder that persistence pays off and can lead to great things!
💪 Hope you all had a good restful weekend! It's manic Monday blues... Time to gear up to climb and conquer this week's challenges. Reach for the sky!🙌 Whether it's work-related, a personal goal, or achieving just some sort of "normalcy" during COVID - we've all got to psych ourselves up and be our own hype man.💪 I've got two big difficult projects at work over the next two weeks that I've been dreading since I'm feeling overwhelmed. Hence this pump up because I've got to tell myself I can do it! You can do it! We can do it!👋 Who else feeling down and in need of a cheerleader?💪 There will always be mountains or obstacles in the way. Keep striving and once you get to the top, the view will make it easy to see your goal within reach. Never give up!
😮 Is this Iceland, Ireland or California?? Who knew these giant geological formations were right in my own backyard?! Welcome to the Devils Postpile National Monument!🌋 About 82,000 years ago, basalt lava from an unknown source flowed into the Eastern Sierras of California. As the lava cooled at the same rate, it contracted, cracked, and split evenly into symmetrical, vertical, hexagonal basalt columns.🤯 Hexagons are nature's perfect shape because they’re the most efficient way to fill an area with equal size units and leave no wasted space. Think bee honeycombs 🐝 or turtle shells! 🐢🏔️ About 12,000 to 20,000 years ago, a glacier carved away part of the postpile, leaving behind this 60 foot high wall of columns. Over the years, erosion and earthquakes have caused many of the columns to fall and now lie broken at the base in a talus pile.🤔 Nature is so amazing to see at work. I couldn't decide which angle of Devils Postpile was my favorite.➡️ So swipe through to see them all. I like 1 for the drama while 2 highlights the basalt columns at a cool angle and 3 makes the rocks look like a giant left behind their building block toys all over the place. Which one do you like best?
👋 Hi, I'm Alice! I see a lot of new faces so let me introduce myself to those that don't know me that well.🙃 My parents named me after Alice from Alice in Wonderland. So it should be no surprise that I am a very curious person. Learning new things is what drives me and makes me get up every day.🤓 That's why I love to travel! Travel has allowed me to learn so much not only about the world and other cultures but also about myself too. I want to help and inspire others to learn more about the world too by sharing all the wondrous things I've discovered.💻 So I started my travel blog aliceinwandererland.com two years ago as a passion project while I was on a gap year between jobs. I am currently based in San Francisco and work a regular 9-5 job in sales at a startup.🧳 I started traveling as young kid to visit relatives in Taiwan. But aside from that plus family road trips within the US and Canada, I had not visited any other country in the world until I started working after college.🤩 Through work over the last 10+ years, I have been lucky to also call New York, Hong Kong, London, and Singapore home. This has allowed me to visit 6 continents, 51 countries, and 37 US states so far and still counting!🌲 Lately, due to the pandemic, in order to satisfy my wanderlust, I've been exploring a lot more locally in California and getting outdoors after being cooped up at home. I have a newfound appreciation for nature now than I did in my younger years.😊 I'd love to get to know you better and hear what you would like to learn more about, especially during these trying times. Is there anything you've been curious about? Please share via DMs or in the comments.
❤️ “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” ~Dr. Seuss🤪 Remember when I went to Joshua Tree for 4th of July weekend? I can't believe that was already a month ago! This was my second time visiting Joshua Tree, and the feeling of being in a real-life Dr. Seuss land was still there.🌞 Golden hour sunsets in the desert were a highlight during my trip. We sat outside for each sunset watching the colors in the sky change, going through a rainbow of colors.☑️ I'm trying to slow down on vacations now to really enjoy those special moments, no matter how small. I realize that being the goal-oriented person I am, I can get too focused on making sure I check off the next thing on my list of things to do and see.😊 So I sometimes forgot to cherish and be present about what I was doing in that particular moment. I think this can also be applied to life. We're so focused on the future that we forget to appreciate the present.😷 During this pandemic, we've been so focused on when it will end (likely never at this rate...) and what we haven't been able to do. A conversation with a friend the other day made me pause to consider: what has been a positive from this time period?🙏 I'm thankful for spending a lot more time with my boyfriend. Our relationship has really grown. I've finally made time to focus on growing my travel blog, a personal passion project.🤔 Looking back on these past 5 months of COVID for the bright side of things, is there a moment you can value? If not, is there something you can do going forward to make a positive change happen for yourself?
😁 “If you don’t know where you are going, any road can take you there.” ~Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll👋 Goodbye July! Hello August! I don't know what this next month will bring but it's been a helluva ride this year. I'm ready for any curveball 2020 decides to throw at us again. Let's see where this road of life can take us!