Trips

The Cho Family has made numerous trips to far-flung places over the years. Following is a list of some of those trips (from most recent to oldest). Click left picture to see images from that trip.
	(26) 4/25 - 5/1, 2010	Hawaii Cruise We had a cruise vacation in Hawaii for a week visiting 5 port cities in 4 islands, with our old KMI friends, K. M. Shim and C. K. An couples. It was a great experience as it was our first cruise trip, and enjoyed every moment of the "freestyle" Norwegian cruise ship "Pride of America" - a 921 feet long 14 stories huge wonderful ship with about 10 restaurants. We took excursions (land tour) for 4 days visiting about 10 places in 3 islands.
	(25) 6/9 - 6/29, 2009	4th. Trans-USA Trip - 2009 We travelled to Boston crossing North American Continent 8th. time (4 round trips) by car to attend the wedding of Abe Cho, the son of Young-Hyuk, Jane's sister in Virginia.
	(24) 8/15 - 9/16, 2008	Trans-Canada/USA Summer Trip - 2008 We had a whole family traveling around U.S.A. in 1975, driving 11,200 miles in 5 weeks, when we were young at the age of around 40. Now, at the age of mid-70's, we made another month long trip crossing Canada and U.S.A. this time driving 9,261 miles again. (40% of a round of the earth)
	(23) 2/17 - 2/18, 2008	Hearst Castle - 2008 Jane and D.I. made a 2 days trip to Hearst Castle in San Simeon, about half way to L.A. along the Pacific coast, where they have visited once about 35 years ago with Seong-Koo family. It was totally different from 35 years ago with a large visitor center, great tour programs and many tour buses connecting visitor center and the castle on the top of the hill, and became a quite a tourist spot with many visitors.
	(22) 12/9 - 12/11, 2006	Crater Lake Trip - 2006 There were visitors from Korea - wife of D.I.'s cousin Dong-Kun and her daughter On-Koo - and they made a trip to Crater Lake. However, due to snowy weather, road to Crater Lake was too slippery and they had to give up at the point only about 20 miles away from the lake.
	(21) 6/16 - 6/21, 2006	Glacier National Park Trip D.I. and Jane made a very enjoyable trip to Glacier National Park in Montana driving about 3,000 miles (almost same distance as San Francisco - New York) in 6 days
	(20) 10/4 - 10/6, 2005	Deveils Postpile National Monument & Death Valley Jane went to Korea during 10/2 - 10/12 and D. I. stayed at home alone for about 10 days. Meantime, D.I. traveled for 3 days to Devils Postpile National Monument and Death Valley with Mr./Mrs. Kyu-Man Shim.
	(19) 7/12 - 7/14, 2005	Crater Lake Trip Jane and D.I. took a spontaneous three-day trip to Crater Lake on 7/12 - 7/14, driving up California's famous Pacific Coast Highway (Hwy 1). They decided to go on this trip on 7/11, when the weather around the Castlewood Country Club area was predicted to be higher than 100F - too hot to play golf.
	(18) 8/10 - 8/17, 2004	Utah Canyons Trip D. I. and Jane had a Utah Canyons Trip driving 3,026 miles (almost 5,000km) in 8 days, visiting several National Parks, mostly in Utah. They visited Bryce and Zion canyons a few times already and this trip has been planned for a few years to visit canyons further deep in Utah where they could not go usually.
	(17) 6/24 - 6/30, 2004	Victoria Island Golf Trip D.I. and Jane went a golf trip to Victoria Island, BC, Canada with their old friends of KMI. They drove about 1,000 miles to Port Angeles, crossed the chnanel to Victoria by a car ferry, stayed 4 nights there playing three rounds of golf and came back taking same route.
	(16) 1/26 - 2/2, 2004	Cancun Golf Trip D.I. and Jane went a week long Golf Trip to Cancun, Mexico with Mr. Kwang-Ho Kim couples, former Samsung Electronics Chairman, and old KMI friends - Mr. Kyu-Man Shim and Mr. Chung-Kyu An couples. They played 5 days of golf at Moon Palace Hotel Golf Course designed by Jack Nicklaus and spared one day for the tour to Chichen Itza to see ruins of old Mayan civilization.
	(15) 10/16 - 10/29, 2003 This trip was paid by Willy as his gift for dad's birthday.	Alabama & Florida Golf Trip D. I. and Jane went to Point Clear, Alabama, to attend Bryan's wedding on 10/18, played 3 rounds of golf at Alabama, drove to Orlando, Florida on 10/21 after the wedding and joined Mr./Mrs. Kyu-Man Shim who have flown from Toronto, Canada. They stayed in Orlando for a week and played 6 rounds of golf at most famous golf courses in Orlando area.
	(14) 8/12 - 8/21, 2003	Alaska & Whistler Golf Trip D. I. and Jane traveled Alaska and Whistler, a beautiful little town about 80 miles north of Vancouver, Canada, with old Fairchild/KMI friends Mr. Kyu-Man Shim couple and Mr. Chung-Kyu An couple.
	(13) 10/27 - 10/31, 2002	Southern California Golf Trip D. I. and Jane had a wonderful five-day golf trip to Southern California with Mr. and Mrs. Kyu-Man Shim. They left home on 10/27 and played three rounds of golf - one at Torrey Pines on 10/28, another at Aviara on 10/29 and again at Avila Beach on 10/30. They relaxed on the fourth night in the hot springs at Sycamore Mineral Springs Resort on 10/30 and returned home on 10/31.
	(12) 8/5 - 8/11, 2002 This trip was paid by Willy as his gift to parents.	Banff Golf Trip - 2002 D.I. and Jane had a wonderful trip to Canadian Rockies for a week with Mr./Mrs. Kyu-Man Shim. They played 4 rounds of golf and drove a rent car from Calgary to Jasper visiting many magnificent scenic spots along Highway 93.
	(11) 4/13 - 5/1, 2001	Korea Trip - 2001 D.I. and Jane visited Korea and met all Cho families, Im families and many friends. They also enjoyed two days of golf near Seoul and 3 days in Cheju Island during the trip.
	(10) 2/23 - 3/2, 2001	Acapulco Golf Trip - 2001 D.I. and Jane spent a week in Acapulco, Mexico, the world famous resort city at Pacific coast of Mexico, with four golf friend couples.
	(9) 1/20 - 1/26, 2001	Hawaii Golf Trip - 2001 D.I. and Jane had a great week in Hawaii Island (Big Island) of Hawaii, playing golf every day for 5 days with Seong-Koo couple from Columbus, Ohio and Mr. Kyu-Man Shim couple.
	(8) 6/7 - 6/19, 2000	Summer Trip - 2000 D.I. and Jane went on a summer road trip with three relatives from Korea : Myung-Hee Kim, her husband Jae-Duk Kim, and In-Sook Lee.
	(7) 1/31 - 2/4, 2000 This trip was paid by 3 sons as their gift for mom's 60th. birthday.	Hawaii Golf Trip - 2000 D.I. and Jane had a wonderful five days of golf trip to Kapalua in Maui Island, Hawaii with Mr. Kyu-Man Shim couple, old Fairchild and KMI friend since 1966.
	(6) 1994	China D.I. traveled to China on several business trips for Samsung and Jane joined him once in Beijing and again in Huizhou.
	(5) 1992	Japan April 15, 1992 was the 30th. Wedding Anniversary of D.I. and Jane. They went to Japan to celebrate this day and visited Tokyo, Hakone, Kamakura, Kyoto, Nara and Osaka.
	(4) 1990	Europe Jane joined one of D.I.'s business trips to Europe at Samsung Electronics for 2 weeks and had a very enjoyable tour of some European cities.
	(3) 1979	Korea Cho Family had a road trip in Korea, visiting Sorak Mountain, one of the most beautiful mountain in Korea, and Kyungju, the capital of old Shilla Dynasty for about 1,000 years.
	(2) 1978	Southeast Asia D. I. was requested by AMI, American Microsystems Inc., to make a survey trip to look for best factory site in Southeast Asian countries and Jane accompanied him for the most of the trip except India and Mauritius.
	(1) 6/14 - 7/18, 1975	Across the U.S.A. The Cho family went on a five-weeks trip across the U.S.A. We visited many famous places in 27 states, met many relatives and friends, and drove a total of 11,200 miles (17,900 km) - the equivalent of traveling approximately halfway around the earth!