Becoming a First-Time Pro Settler - How to Prepare for a Long Journey

- Breaking the comfort zone
- Empty and leave
- Leaving with a dog
- Finding my home in LA
- Is it mandatory to use the settlement service?
- What if I get sick while abroad?
- The luggage of a family of five for a year
- Finding my car in the US
- Settle in the US in just one day!
- Living in LA for a year: The weight of living expenses
- The house you live in

A Second Lifer's Perspective - Things You Didn't Know Before Living

- My first ID, California driver's license
A small happiness for the unemployed: becoming a member of a luxury fitness club.
- An American supermarket where you can have fun choosing what to buy
- A journey of 30,000 miles in search of living water
- The new world of American credit cards
- Car insurance that gives you a discount based on your knowledge
- TIP for saving over 200,000 won in monthly telecommunication costs in the US!
- Using Cherry Picker's delivery app
- Do I have to tip if I get takeout?
- Is it okay for the United States to have no waste separation?
- Is there a Carrot Market in the US?
- Utilizing 200% of the American Library
- Becoming a regular at a Vietnamese beauty salon
- 108 LA Restaurants We Love

My Third Child's Life in America - Watching My Child Turn Ten

- Child's first day at an American elementary school
- Bailey is a math genius!
- Happy Easter Day!
- My daughter is a goalkeeper
- American schools where every day is a festival
- Memories of a hot summer camp
- Child's first birthday party
- I didn't go to an English kindergarten, but I speak English well.
- An unforgettable Halloween
- The busiest kid in Palos Verdes
- Baby Bird Rescue Operation
- 2nd grade during the day, 3rd grade at night

The Fourth Mom's Double Life - What Did My Unemployed Mom Do in America?

- School for Moms, Adult School
- Getting a yoga certification in the US
- Oil Painting on Friday
- Become a LA correspondent
- Mom Teacher in the Classroom
- About useless things
- LA Three Meals a Day
- Making friends in America
Life in America is not easy, and our loser battle is on the line.
- What you can give up and what you can't

The Fifth Traveler's Time - Traveling as Everyday Life, Everyday Life as Travel

Western US Road Trip

- Sparkling Las Vegas
- A Nine-Year-Old's Christmas Trip
- A Starry Night in Hogan
- Antelope Canyon, the Indian's playground
- Can we get back alive?
- Sedona, the city of energy and the majestic Grand Canyon
- Finding an oasis in the desert
- New Year's Eve in a camper van
- The journey continues

Colorful American City Tour

- My friend's city, Sacramento
Portland, the city Americans most want to live in
- San Francisco along Highway 101
- San Diego, a two-hour trip from LA
- Boston, the city of gentlemen
- New York, the city that never sleeps
Seattle, a city where tradition and modernity coexist

Yellowstone National Park, a wonder of nature

- Have you ever heard the sound of buffalo footsteps?
- About 100% travel

A healing trip to Canada

- That's travel
- Don't trust the weather forecast
- Jasper, a name to be found again
- Completing your Bucket List in Banff
- If I were to be twenty again
- Where you want to live
- Today will be better than yesterday, and tomorrow will be better than today.
Like the Aurora!

Epilogue - Until We Can Walk
Special thanks to - my people who told me it wasn't a dream

Author's Note

For a long time, I have been curious about life in other countries.
It was fascinating to me that there were people living in a different time zone than the one I live in in South Korea, that it could be daytime here and nighttime there.

People asked me why I left like that.
I felt like there had to be some good reason, but in fact, the trip was good for very trivial reasons.
I liked the unfamiliar scenery I encountered after leaving my familiar place, and I liked the time I spent traveling, even if I ran out of cosmetics and lost something.

If I could, I think I would like to live like this, traveling every day.
I will live as a diligent office worker for a few months before embarking on a journey, and then stand on an unfamiliar road again.
If we could, we would choose that life forever.
I want to live my life as if I were traveling, constantly wandering and making mistakes, with a thrilling excitement that feels good just thinking about it.

Once in a Lifetime, La La Land Prologue

Like everyone else, my husband and I dreamed of living abroad someday.
Every time we went on vacation, we would have conversations like, "What would it be like to live here?" and "Where would you most like to live?"
Such conversations often gave me the strength to get through the long days, regardless of the possibility of realization in the hamster wheel of daily life.
After the child was born, the time naturally began to be discussed as around the time the child started school.
Although we didn't have any specific plans, whenever we talked about it, I felt excited that I might one day be able to achieve that dream.


But when the moment of choice arrived, the burden of having to leave behind a stable life became overwhelming.
In particular, as someone who had previously taken a year of parental leave after giving birth, I was afraid of having to go through the same unstable situations I had faced when returning to work after a period of absence.
So, we had a lot of conversations before making the decision to enter school.
And in the end, we decided to leave together.
Although it was still true that they would have to give up a stable life in Korea and take a break from their careers, they ultimately decided to leave for the United States with their entire family.
If you don't leave, you will be able to continue living a stable life in Korea, but you will still have regrets about living abroad, which you have never experienced before.
While there may be gaps in your career and a difficult time re-adjusting after returning, the diverse experiences and recharging time you'll have in the US will be invaluable.