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My super scary van security. 🙄🤦🏼‍♀️🐶🐧
After weeks traveling through the desert, it is great to camp next to water again. Even the mosquitoes can't dampen my mood. 🦟
Southeastern California has been good to us so far. Finally made it beyond the reach of the snow, but not before a snowy, 12 degree night. 🥶 We've driven through deserts, visited old-timey Western filming locations, entered Joshua tree territory, passed solar farms larger than some towns I've seen, and today a hawk landed on a rock less than 20' away and hung out while I ate lunch. Maybe it was hoping I'd toss a corner of my pb&j its way? 🤔🦅 It is absolutely silent where I am now, which is a wonderful and welcomed sound after several campsites near highways. Next stop, Joshua Tree National Park, which I'm sure will not be quite as serene. 🌵
23 degree selfie, cold red nose and all. Snow caught up with us today. The perfect opportunity to unpack winter clothes I never got to wear in Texas, and try out the brand new snow boots I found at a thrift store in Boise. 🥶☃️🤗
Beelined it south through the Sierras to outrun snow. Looks like Yosemite isn't in the cards for us, but that's okay, I'll just have to come back next year. 😄 I caught this awesome cloud dragon while snapping photos of the storm passing over the mountains though, so there's that. 🤔🐲☁️🏔
Just noticed the unintentional avian theme of my current reading material. 🐦📖
John Steinbeck was right. "The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time." @redwoodnps
Paco hunting pelicans along the Pacific. So close buddy, so close. 😆🐶
Paco meets the Pacific. 🐶🏖🌊