After visiting Dany and picking up Duke from Colorado, Corey and I were so ready for the last leg of our trip back home to Los Angeles! When we originally made the drive from LA –> Fort Collins, we got a late start and decided to spend a night in Las Vegas. This shortened the next leg of the trip by 4 hours and allowed us to make it to Goblin Valley State Park in Utah to camp out for…
After a month in the Philippines and two weeks to focus on family in Boston, we were so ready to pick up our little fur child from Salida! As expected with traveling, the journey from Boston to Mr.Dookie was long and tiring! We attended Tyler’s graduation in Lowell the night before our departure. This meant a midnight train ride and Lyft back to our apartment in Cambridge, some last minute packing and then a 3 hour nap (only 30 minutes…
April 16-18, 2016 Going to Fort Collins was a win-win-win-win situation for everyone involved. Corey and I benefitted because we were able to drive Duke to Dany who was kind enough to doggy sit while we vacation to the Philippines and we finally get to explore FoCo! Dany benefitted because I would accompany her during the the drive to drop Joe off in NM, and because she would gain a little furry companion for the next 6 weeks. Joe benefitted…
April 13-21, 2016 I can’t think of anything more refreshing than waking up in a warm cozy sleeping bag, surrounded by cool crisp air just as the sun is rising over the horizon. Waking up at Goblin Valley, Utah was exactly my kind of morning! Corey needed internet to do some work before his morning meeting, so as soon as we woke up, we packed up and hit the road again. The drive through Utah and Colorado was definitely scenic…
Las Vegas, NV: April 11-12, 2016 This drive should’ve been really straight forward considering our experiences so far, but the timing of a few events made things a little more complicated. Corey and I needed to get to Fort Collins by Friday May 15th, because I wanted to go with Dany and Joe to New Mexico to drop Joe off for his CDT hike. Unfortunately that same weekend, Corey’s company was going to take part in a huge convention in…
We only spent 2.5 weeks at our home in LA before starting another mini road trip that will lead into our month long Philippines adventure. We’re still getting acclimated but here’s how it’s going! Our apartment feels comfortable and feels like a home! I think it’s safe to say that Corey and I settled in very quickly. We’ve always felt that home is wherever the other person and Duke are, so this wasn’t an issue at all. Yeah, our lives…
The general outline for this entire trip was one day of driving, checking into the AirBnb during the evening, having 1 full day to explore the area and then leaving the next morning for another full day of driving. The only exception was San Antonio where we decided to stay an extra night. AirBnb I booked every AirBnB weeks in advance. The process was easy and only took a span of a few hours to book accommodations for the entire…
March 22-23, 2016 Day 1 Driving from SATX to Las Cruces was such a walk in the park! 8.5 hours primarily on I-10W! Because of switching over to Mountain Time, we arrived at our AirBnb in Las Cruces by 2:15pm. Corey and I didn’t really have much planned for NM besides going to White Sands National Monument. The plan was to just chill for the remainder of the day, grab some take out and then go star gazing. I was…
March 18-21, 2016 Day 1 The drive from NOLA to SATX was supposed to be around 8 hours, our shortest leg of the entire road trip. We were pretty psyched that it was only 8. At this point, that’s nothing. The plan was to leave NOLA by 8, get there around 4 or 5pm and then explore the Riverwalk for some dinner. Once again, things didn’t go as planned. Right when we departed NOLA we saw signs for the closure of the highway…
March 17-18, 2016 The plan of leaving Asheville at 1 or 2 did not happen at all. Corey slept at midnight and soon later in a half conscious state, kept muttering in his sleep about needing to close the doors. He was in the middle of having a nightmare and clearly paranoid. Then I totally got creeped out that he was having some premonition about a murderer about to break in and got up to lock both doors leading to…