Asian Chick Travels Around The World Taking Pictures With A Cardboard Cut Out Of Her Father

CNN) – When Jay Kwon Yang died from stomach cancer in Virginia in 2012, he left a dream unfulfilled: world travel. The environmental engineer and owner of a dry cleaner wanted to see Europe. And Africa. Even California or not so far away Florida. But he never got the chance. He was just 52 when he died. For more than a year, his 25-year-old daughter, Jinna Yang, couldn’t grow past the grief of losing her father, who had raised her, along with a brother and half-sister, almost single-handedly. So she decided to take her father on the trip of his dreams. Traveling for a month in April with a portable, life-sized cutout of her father, New York-based Yang trekked across Europe and posed for pictures in front of famous landmarks, from Skogafoss Waterfall in Iceland to the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Don’t get me wrong, its sad that this girl’s dad died. But traveling around the world with an awkward Asian dad cardboard cut out is as fucking weird as it gets. I mean if my pops every kicked the bucket and got wind in the afterlife that I was traveling around the world with a giant cardboard version of him I’m pretty sure he’d think I was an asshole. Imagine checking that thing in at the airport every time you hopped on a plane? All the time that you’re not snapping pics and you’re just the idiot carrying the giant Asian guy in a tux? You think she had any fun on this trip at all? Like maybe meet a stranger in the bar and go him with him for a one night stand and then wake up in the morning and be like “Alright thanks that was fun now I gotta go take pictures in front of the Louvre with my dead dad! Have a nice life!” Just Asians being Asian.

PS – Seriously could you pick a more awkward shot to be the cardboard cut out? Could we get a smile? I dunno a thumbs up or some shit?