I get a bit lazy with taking pictures when we’re in areas I’ve been before, but I took my camera out while we were wandering Paso Robles and tried to take a few pictures. The vines were much greener and bushier than they were when we went to Napa four months ago. I [...]

So now that I’m in Arizona, I finally have internet to post Death Valley pictures (and Las Vegas or Utah maybe later). Vegas charged for internet (per laptop), so we put it on Travis’ laptop, so I didn’t bother to update blog much because it’s a hassle to transfer everything over to his laptop.
So [...]

As we drove to Death Valley from Bishop, CA, we didn’t stop *too* many places. Big stops were Manzanar and Mt. Whitney (both for semi-obvious reasons, perhaps). However, Travis was not that excited by the random ruins at Manzanar, and it was so cloudy we could barely tell which mountain peak was Mount Whitney. [...]

Today we left Lake Tahoe in the morning and began the journey towards Death Valley — we decided we weren’t necessarily arriving at Death Valley today (so we could spend more time being aimless and seeing sites on the road). In the end, drove most of the way to Death Valley (stopped in Bishop, [...]

I had been wondering how Travis and I would cope now that the visiting friends part of our journey is over, and now it’s just us wandering aimlessly — but, we both managed to make new friends in Lake Tahoe!
At our first Lake Tahoe photo attempt, it was snowy over on the mountain side so [...]

So, Lake Tahoe, is awesome. I’m sure it’s primarily because it’s very nice to get a hotel room with a giant jacuzzi tub for only ~$33 per night, which is cheaper than what we were paying for rent in CA (which is the point of our trip). I enjoyed sleeping on a real [...]

Such a long day.
Today we got up nice and early, packed up the camping supplies, although we tossed the tent. I guess Travis had it since he was 8 years old, and it was getting a bit worn. We’ll get a new one before we camp again later this week.
After we packed up, [...]

No doubt about it, it is infinitely prettier in Napa than it was staring in Bakersfield. We had fun yesterday wandering around the vineyards and a nearby lake. The vineyards themselves aren’t super exciting because all the plants are very small still, but there were a lot of nice wildflowers and other scenery. [...]

I decided at some point that my only real goal in terms of photography is to take one cool shot that I really like in each place I stay for a prolonged period of time. This was somewhat of an issue for Bakersfield though, because everything here is just kinda dry with lots of [...]

Travis’ friend Bryan met up with us and after doing nothing for most of the morning, we decided to hit up the nickel arcade. Of course, most of the games cost 5 or 10 nickels, but I don’t really like the shooting arcade games anyway, so I played mostly the random games where you [...]