Hi guys, welcome back to another episode of the American Road Trip Journal
Number 23, I believe
At this point of the trip we were already past half way after spending a whole month exploring California
if you remember I visited the redwoods
Lost Coast, the Mendocino Coast, we went to Sonoma, Salt Point State Park
San Francisco, then we went down to Southern California, Palm Springs, the Salton Sea
Then we went to... what else? Oh, Joshua Tree. Then we went to the Alabama hills
I went to Mono Lake, the White Mountains, Death Valley
yeah, it was a very intense month of traveling and driving, but it was really beautiful
There are still so many places that I wanna see in California, but those will have to wait a little bit longer
I really want to backpack in the Sierras. That's one of the things that is on my list very high
It will happen
I promise, but yeah
It was at this point of the trip where we started heading east and leaving the west coast behind
I don't know if I've mentioned this before but even if I have is a nice reminder when we left Portland
We sold most of the stuff that we owned and we had there and we were just carrying with us
Everything else that we actually owned material stuff that we owned. We had with us all the clothes
I had all my camera gear and stuff to develop and scan film
Then we had computers some books we had Luna of course, but that was about it
That's all the stuff, all that we had in the car with us was all we owned at that point
you can say that the car was our mobile home basically
another thing is that Rachel kept working during this trip remotely
So that's why we stayed at Airbnb some hotels to get some stable and decent internet and for the most part
That was true, so what we'd do is just move all the stuff from the car to the Airbnb or hotel
and then I would have a clean and empty car during the week to go explore some parts around the
City where we were staying and then the next weekend when we were ready to move
We'd just load the car once again with all our stuff
and move to the next city town or whatever so this was the case for what you're gonna see in this episode
We were moving from Lone Pine, California to Flagstaff, Arizona
But in between those two places there was another one that I really wanted to check out
That's why we spent a night at the beautiful Valley of Fire in Nevada is this an hour away from Vegas
I'm telling you all this because I didn't really take photos with my film camera or not many because
Rachel was there and it was one of her few chances to go and see and experience a place
so I just wanted to enjoy the
weekend and we went on a couple hikes, I just brought my digital camera with me and took a few videos and
Snapshots with it, but yeah, you're gonna see that there are only like three or four
Film photos on this video. I still hope you enjoy it, and thanks for watching and see you in the next one
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