California Road Trip Part 3

Hey there, friends!

If you have been following along…this is part three and the final post about our road trip vacation!

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So we stayed in Japantown, as I said in the previous posts, and it was incredible…there was so much and it was all right around our hotel. It was great to be able to walk around and explore. The first night we went to the Kintetsu Mall @ The Japan Center and checked out all the fun shops. We found some really great stuff and awesome souvenirs for the kiddos. We ate at the really fun, authentic Japanese sushi place…with the conveyor belt. The sushi was made fresh and floats around the table on these really neat wood boats. Chris had a Japanese beer and I drank a fancy rose saki, it was the perfect dinner. [Read more...]

California Road Trip Part 2

Hey y’all!

Here is my continuation of our road trip adventures…

We hit the road to San Francisco from Monterey Bay and the drive was just as magical as it had been the previous few days. It was literally heaven on earth! It was lovely to be on the open road with my honey. We talked about all the future dreams we have and how amazing it would be to live in an RV and travel all over the place. It would be a minimalist life style full of adventures and memories rather than stuff. I love hearing Chris talk about the future and all the wonderful and creative ideas he has, he really lights up when he talks about it and I fall more and more in love with him because of it. It’s a magical feeling to dream about the future together. [Read more...]

California Road Trip Part 1

Hello!

We are now home from our road trip adventures, I’m happy to be home, but sad at the same time. We saw so many beautiful things that I can’t even begin to share with you all how magnificent it was. We took California Hwy 1 and it was the most magical drive of my entire life. The drive is long and the roads are narrow and curvy, but it is so worth it. The scenery you see on California Hwy 1 is straight out of a picture. I was overwhelmed by all the beauty that surrounded us at all times. There are great pull outs, shops, and diners along the way. Everything along this route has so much character in it. It’s amazing to see how nature will find a way to grow and thrive anywhere, no matter what. There was something so emotional about this drive, I realized how beautiful life is and how much more precious memories are than stuff or things. I was drawn in by the trees; many of them growing solo out the side of a rock mountain. It’s just incredible. No one can tell a tree where to grow, because it will find a way to grow anywhere. It’s pretty impressive to take a trip and really absorb the nature that surrounds you. There are so many lessons to be learned from nature, all it’s beauty and strength, and yet it can’t speak to you with a voice. However, it speaks in great volume to my soul without saying anything at all, if I just listen with my heart and open my mind. [Read more...]

Road trips, adventures and getaways!

Road Trip

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My fiance, Chris and I have been trying to figure out a trip for ourselves for the past couple weeks. He is busiest with work in the summer and spends a lot of time away from home on the road, so we really try and plan a few outings for ourselves when we can. We have right around a week to have some adult fun and we are taking full advantage of it. Chris gets some seriously amazing ideas flowing, so many that they all sound great and it becomes hard to choose. My concern for him is that I don’t want him to have to do oodles of tiring traveling, he does enough of that for work, but he is selfless in that he will put in the travel time to be able to take me somewhere I have never been. He is really caring in that way. It has been an exhausting back and forth about what plans are the ones for us, but finally we have settled on an idea that suits us perfectly. [Read more...]