Finally after three full days of dreary overcast, the sun came out.. Not a cloud in the sky! It was our last day in Canada, and to be honest I was feeling a little under the weather. My throat usually hurts from hotel AC towards the end of a trip, so I chalked it up […]
It’s finally the day we head up to Vancouver for a one-week Christmas trip! We’ve been planning for a couple of weeks, and while I’ve been nervous about traveling outside of work, I was really looking forward to visiting Vancouver again. I woke up around 8:30AM, all packing finished the night before, and made a […]
After getting back to the car, we headed to the Courthouse Towers, which was just on the other end of the Park Avenue trail. You can walk the whole way and back to the Courthouse Towers from the Park Avenue viewpoint, but we opted to only go half-way since it was just the beginning of […]
Maybe thanks to the exhaustion of getting here, I slept early and woke up right at 6AM after what felt like the best sleep I’ve had in a long time. The three of us went down to eat breakfast in the hotel, then got ready for our full day in Arches. Our first stop was […]
After months of anticipation and years of trying to plan a trip together, it was finally time to get on our flights to Utah! Or so I thought… I got ready in the early hours of the morning, what always feels like the time where the rest of the world is still sleeping, and headed […]
It took several years, I’ll be honest, but I finally got my film from my Iceland 2019 trip developed this month as a birthday present. I’m certain they went through a great degree of degrading, but they are mine and they are precious to me. One of the biggest worries for me on this trip […]
Today we drove to Skagit Valley to see the daffodils in bloom. Thinking about the sheer miracle that we can still come to the farms and see these fields glittering with gold, I’m reminded of an old quote by Noor Shirazie from the tumblr days. If flowers can teach themselves how to bloom after winter passes, […]
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