Grieving daughter travels the globe with a cardboard cutout of her dead father to take 'him' to the places he always wanted to visit

A daughter devastated by the loss of her father to cancer went on a trek through Europe carrying a cardboard cutout of him everywhere she went in a bid to take him to all the countries he hoped to visit.



She is now sharing the pictures online in hopes of spurring others on to follow their dreams and aspirations.

Two years ago, Jinna Yang's father passed away from stomach cancer. In postings on her blog.



Yang, 25, lamented that in exchange for providing 'bread and butter' for herself and her family, her father had shortchanged himself out of doing the things that he wanted to do, like play PGA golf .



Jinna Yang as a child with her late father, who passed away from stomach cancer

Jinna Yang posed with her father, who was a certified professional PGA golfer. Sadly, he never found an opportunity to begin playing professional golf

She recalled how he persevered working in his dry cleaning store in North Virginia despite his illness and maintained his determined, upbeat demeanor until the end.



To handle her sorrow, Yang worked even harder in her corporate New York City job.

'From the outside looking in, I seemed to have it all' she wrote on her blog.



However, she wrote, 'What people didn’t see was the toll the combination of life events took on every inch of my body, heart, mind, and soul.'

When the stress she was under with her father's passing and her grueling job responsibilities grew to a fever pitch, Yang dropped everything and did something drastic.

She bought a one-way ticket to Iceland, and brought with her a cardboard cutout of her late father.

'My father never had the chance to travel the world' she wrote. 'He sacrificed his entire life for others – his parents, his children, his wife, his family and his friends.'

To honor his memory and come to peace with herself, Yang brought her father with her as she traveled across Europe. She put the pictures on her Instagram.



Jinna Yang posing with her the cardboard cutout of her father in front of the Blue Lagoon, in Iceland

The Gullfoss Waterfall, in Iceland. Yang gave up her corporate position, which she claims on her blog paid her very well, and instead bought a one-way ticket to Iceland

Geysir, in Iceland. Yang's father immigrated to the United States when he was 17, and he toiled through odd jobs and small businesses in order to survive

Le Louvre, in Paris, France. According to Yang, her father ran a drycleaning business in Norfolk, Virginia, where he worked for 12 hours a day for six days per week

Colloseo, in Rome, Italy. According to Yang, before deciding to go the trip with her father she 'lost the will to live' and felt 'hopeless'

The Eiffel Tower, in Paris, France. On her blog, Yang claimed to sell most of her possessions in order to fund the trip

Duomo, in Florence, Italy. Yang left the United States with her laptop, a camera, and some clothes

St. Paul's Catheral, in London, UK. According to Yang, 'my father never had the chance to travel the world. He sacrificed his entire life for others - his parents, his children, his wife, his family and his friends.'