Explorations...

Palos Verdes


LA



LA driving scares me a tad.

Smog? What smog? Did you know there are beautiful mountains behind that city skyline?

Wow. Venice. Wow.

A sunset drum circle of 100 on Venice Beach

What luck! Wayde visits on the company's dime

Santa Monica Boardwalk

Santa Monica Boardwalk

Santa Monica too

Santa Monica

Wherever you go, there you are.

We rode off into the...

Complete with dead bugs

Take me to...

What do we have here? We found Katie and Sander on 70 E. Visited at Smalltown Missouri Starbucks.

Kansas Windmills

More blue skies.

We stayed with Shannon's family and visited with Hobbs. And ate the most magnificant breakfast ever made in the history of Kansas City.

Ahhh....Colorado.


Truck made it through the mtns. The Echo struggled.

What a view and skirt reflection.


Lunch break locale.

Noah enjoyed

And so did Eesa...getting in touch with her 'big cat' roots.

Arizona

Close to the Grand Canyon...

Egypt. No, not really...Vegas. Next stop CA.

Hold Yer Horses

I know, I know...we owe you pics and we're a little late sharing them so please know...

California pictures complete with captions are in this blogs near future. Stand by. (And in the meantime, in case you were wondering - yes, it really is as awesome as they (we) say. We're settled in our new apartment and savoring every day, still pinching ourselves because we can't believe we actually live here.)

Give me land, lots of land under starry skies above...

Baltimore to Redondo Beach was a total of 5 days, 2,800 miles, and some absolutely awesome views.

1. Driving into the sunset every night felt a little cliche but I can't lie - it was beautiful.
2. Kansas is flat and pretty. So is Missouri.
3. Cats don't like long car rides. And Eesa didn't hesitate to let me know.
4. Toyota Echo's don't like roads with very steep inclines. And my Echo didn't hesitate to let me know.
5. Colorado is so breathtakingly beautiful. Almost unreal.
6. The desert is hot.
7. Vegas is so unbelievably fun, it's even fun when you're stuck in traffic and seeing the city from afar.
8. No matter how hard you try, it's impossible to discreetly sneak a litter box into a 'No Pets Allowed' hotel.
9. If you have the unfortunate luck of blowing a tire on a road trip, I hope it happens in 'Meth Capital', Missouri. People are so very nice there. Really.
10. Never, ever, under any circumstances should you or anyone you know order onion rings from Burger King.