![Waipio Beach](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1652744948583-THKRRQ16SSO5T8939ICZ/jenna_van-valen_waipio_valley_hawaii.jpg)
adventures-1
![Waipio Beach](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1652744948583-THKRRQ16SSO5T8939ICZ/jenna_van-valen_waipio_valley_hawaii.jpg)
Waipio Beach
The famous beach of Hawaii, on a perfect blustery day.
![at Gyeonbokgung Palace](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403973568-WYMXDEJ9063C07M726MD/9704833480_0160220384_o.jpg)
at Gyeonbokgung Palace
Seoul, South Korea - one of the most amazing trips I've ever taken
hard at "work"
with a pinhole camera, Cheonjeyeon Falls, Jeju Island, South Korea
![perfect day](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403966323-TUG8XRFLET6JWRUK3NKU/14446095_10208663018946027_9084130100630036237_n.jpg)
perfect day
a sunset rainbow over a magical lake, on my wedding anniversary
![dreaming of Mexico](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403990208-W9AK2OE26AELBHUXF0E9/JVV_3222b.jpg)
dreaming of Mexico
Laguna Bacalar
![Kanarra Creek hike](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403962777-KP7E87DL9YR8DJD38QH2/264736_2029843618862_6768773_n.jpg)
Kanarra Creek hike
a slot canyon in Utah with friends - we hiked back into the canyon to visit a waterfall
![Zip Line Adventures](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1652744942750-0UCGQNQ8D73IJC5H27VR/IMG_3461.jpg)
Zip Line Adventures
Maui - winter 2022
![wicked good time](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403968713-8811XA657ES4ZR6N27RM/boston.jpg)
wicked good time
Boston with friends
![Yelapa, Mexico](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1652745127000-OLOJGP1VT43OY7P07UKB/47685115_10215412391636126_4555065241225920512_n.jpg)
Yelapa, Mexico
Friendsgiving 2018 - enjoying a waterfall
![East China Sea](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403984243-HHJ4UQ2UX2D9U8B0XY64/jungmun-beach-jeju-do.jpg)
East China Sea
Jungmun Beach, Jeju-do, South Korea
![bachelorette](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403987195-3ABCX3C211L7JAR18FNK/JVV_0612a.jpg)
bachelorette
we all wore wigs for my party
![Catamaran Life](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1652744948263-31IQDWJ4KBS2YQE37ESI/IMG_3490.jpg)
Catamaran Life
sunset dinner sail in Maui
![on top](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403964252-YN16Y8Y85O3ILHNB9ESM/10011167_10203050012024362_3680446966312673013_n.jpg)
on top
on the biggest pyramid, The Acropolis, Ek Balam, Mexico
![Gyeongbokgung Palace, Seoul](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403978393-OMB885T3HB0EAQKC36GX/IMG_0861a.jpg)
Gyeongbokgung Palace, Seoul
You can't see it from this angle, but the throne was in the palace behind me.
![Sail Away!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1652745132980-W7SKICVN4G7TRR6EIHIB/DJI_0292a.jpg)
Sail Away!
Friendsgiving 2018, Bay of Banderas, sailing charter
![hiking Torrey Pines](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403961845-QJ7RZNRAPKOJNATXWBCI/162608_1639311855812_613901_n.jpg)
hiking Torrey Pines
in San Diego with friends - known them both for 30 some odd years...
![Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403964827-WGMJ2V7HEQNPLKJ84AV3/300016_270039726358988_8387586_n.jpg)
Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
when my step daughter graduated from high school we did a road trip from San Francisco through the Redwoods and up the Oregon Coast and then to Crater Lake
![Story Land!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403965010-UW5KQSDC8F3OU9J0T8TA/11075220_10204784563347061_6965809730193632761_n.jpg)
Story Land!
"Where fantasy lives." It's a gem of an amusement park in northern NH. This was a great day with friends and family.
![Lotte Resort, Jeju-do, South Korea](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403973723-V4XJKUAFAPBEJT333RTL/DSCN0601a.jpg)
Lotte Resort, Jeju-do, South Korea
the balcony of our hotel room overlooking the grounds and windmills on Jeju Island, the East China Sea in the distance
![El Castillo, Chicen Itza](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403988213-HXHTIQ4L5U3FOFJZVDLS/JVV_1352a+copy.jpg)
El Castillo, Chicen Itza
I'm glad I saw it, but I'd never go back. It's so, so overrun with tourists and people selling things - it's like a flea market that happens to have a pre-Columbian pyramid
![Pink Jeep Tour, Sedona](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403967280-CLUTN2TSZW0YDLT9EB8R/650559172_b06793609f_o.jpg)
Pink Jeep Tour, Sedona
From a week in Arizona with my step daughter and her mother - it was such a special trip!
![Alcatraz](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403967799-PLEHBJOFFMMB0599I1NK/ALCATRAZ.jpg)
Alcatraz
I was wearing four layers it was so, so cold that day!
![SUBMARINE!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403971794-TAXLRRE02HZ1KJJUIMTY/DSCN0579a.jpg)
SUBMARINE!
We went on a submarine to visit some shipwrecks and a reef in the East China Sea, off the coast of Jeju Island, South Korea. It was AWESOME.
![Lotte World](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403976212-MFYYS8N48VXXADUARHNY/DSCN0673a.jpg)
Lotte World
We were in a giant snow globe for pictures - Lotte World is Korea's answer to Disney. It's a massive amusement park, partially contained in a shopping mall, in Seoul. Their mascots are some sort of chipmunky-squirrel, Lotte and Lorre.
![my first day in Mexico](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403991105-EHS5K2HH38UCTJCEQ69M/puerto-morelos.jpg)
my first day in Mexico
on the end of the fishing pier, Puerto Morelos - life hasn't been the same since I visited that first time
![being a nerd in NOLA](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403991181-9KBMJ1VK2YFHB8VL2IBK/NOLA.jpg)
being a nerd in NOLA
Holding a book about the New Orleans Mint in front of the New Orleans Mint; fun fact: at my other job I have been editing the new edition of this book, complete with all new photos taken by yours truly. I'm a geek, if you didn't know.
![Bongeunsa Buddhist Temple, Seoul](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403984552-XBT9824AM4TBEMDIKIW6/IMG_0968a.jpg)
Bongeunsa Buddhist Temple, Seoul
me and Buddha
![baby croc!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403980158-QTJGLU2ONL4HVOICMT9I/image%281%29.jpg)
baby croc!
while on my honeymoon in Mexico I got to visit a bunch of crocodiles
![visiting Lotte World](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403980761-1YY6X84NPZEOV39OOH65/IMG_0940a.jpg)
visiting Lotte World
the lines are shorter and visiting is cheaper than Disney - would go again!
![Vegas Strip helicopter tour](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403992881-0KW0O7HUYLEK27YXRTXY/vegas-copter.jpg)
Vegas Strip helicopter tour
for my husband's 40th I made him dress up and surprised him with the only thing in Vegas he hadn't done: a helicopter flight over the strip
!["working"](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1652744940255-1J8NM4HEKS7YE3RMD84W/DJI_0035.jpg)
"working"
doing a sunset shoot at Ironwoods Beach on Maui
![Waipio Beach](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1652744948583-THKRRQ16SSO5T8939ICZ/jenna_van-valen_waipio_valley_hawaii.jpg)
![at Gyeonbokgung Palace](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403973568-WYMXDEJ9063C07M726MD/9704833480_0160220384_o.jpg)
![perfect day](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403966323-TUG8XRFLET6JWRUK3NKU/14446095_10208663018946027_9084130100630036237_n.jpg)
![dreaming of Mexico](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403990208-W9AK2OE26AELBHUXF0E9/JVV_3222b.jpg)
![Kanarra Creek hike](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403962777-KP7E87DL9YR8DJD38QH2/264736_2029843618862_6768773_n.jpg)
![Zip Line Adventures](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1652744942750-0UCGQNQ8D73IJC5H27VR/IMG_3461.jpg)
![wicked good time](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403968713-8811XA657ES4ZR6N27RM/boston.jpg)
![Yelapa, Mexico](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1652745127000-OLOJGP1VT43OY7P07UKB/47685115_10215412391636126_4555065241225920512_n.jpg)
![East China Sea](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403984243-HHJ4UQ2UX2D9U8B0XY64/jungmun-beach-jeju-do.jpg)
![bachelorette](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403987195-3ABCX3C211L7JAR18FNK/JVV_0612a.jpg)
![Catamaran Life](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1652744948263-31IQDWJ4KBS2YQE37ESI/IMG_3490.jpg)
![on top](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403964252-YN16Y8Y85O3ILHNB9ESM/10011167_10203050012024362_3680446966312673013_n.jpg)
![Gyeongbokgung Palace, Seoul](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403978393-OMB885T3HB0EAQKC36GX/IMG_0861a.jpg)
![Sail Away!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1652745132980-W7SKICVN4G7TRR6EIHIB/DJI_0292a.jpg)
![hiking Torrey Pines](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403961845-QJ7RZNRAPKOJNATXWBCI/162608_1639311855812_613901_n.jpg)
![Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403964827-WGMJ2V7HEQNPLKJ84AV3/300016_270039726358988_8387586_n.jpg)
![Story Land!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403965010-UW5KQSDC8F3OU9J0T8TA/11075220_10204784563347061_6965809730193632761_n.jpg)
![Lotte Resort, Jeju-do, South Korea](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403973723-V4XJKUAFAPBEJT333RTL/DSCN0601a.jpg)
![El Castillo, Chicen Itza](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403988213-HXHTIQ4L5U3FOFJZVDLS/JVV_1352a+copy.jpg)
![Pink Jeep Tour, Sedona](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403967280-CLUTN2TSZW0YDLT9EB8R/650559172_b06793609f_o.jpg)
![Alcatraz](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403967799-PLEHBJOFFMMB0599I1NK/ALCATRAZ.jpg)
![SUBMARINE!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403971794-TAXLRRE02HZ1KJJUIMTY/DSCN0579a.jpg)
![Lotte World](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403976212-MFYYS8N48VXXADUARHNY/DSCN0673a.jpg)
![my first day in Mexico](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403991105-EHS5K2HH38UCTJCEQ69M/puerto-morelos.jpg)
![being a nerd in NOLA](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403991181-9KBMJ1VK2YFHB8VL2IBK/NOLA.jpg)
![Bongeunsa Buddhist Temple, Seoul](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403984552-XBT9824AM4TBEMDIKIW6/IMG_0968a.jpg)
![baby croc!](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403980158-QTJGLU2ONL4HVOICMT9I/image%281%29.jpg)
![visiting Lotte World](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403980761-1YY6X84NPZEOV39OOH65/IMG_0940a.jpg)
![Vegas Strip helicopter tour](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1520403992881-0KW0O7HUYLEK27YXRTXY/vegas-copter.jpg)
!["working"](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a25f3c87131a54b3a56fd5e/1652744940255-1J8NM4HEKS7YE3RMD84W/DJI_0035.jpg)