For our honeymoon, we flew to San Francisco and drove down the 1 to Monterey Bay. I've split up these posts because they would be really long and maybe monotonous if I didn't. I'll add days 3 - 5 in a forthcoming post. We visited Baker beach after we landed and found our rental car. …
For over a year, I was a member of a book club that read books like "Hidden Valley Road", "Dear Edward", and "The Death of Vivek Oji". We continued on through the pandemic via Zoom, so I didn't miss a month. With pandemic woes, I grew restless. I could not concentrate long enough to read …
For the Labor Day holiday here in America in early September, my parents visited me in Colorado Springs. My dad, a fellow photographer always in search of the perfect angle, and I drove to some of my favorite, most scenic spots around town and in the mountains. We took them to Garden of the Gods, …
I am doing a very long drive over the Thanksgiving holiday and need something besides music to keep me entertained. Enter audio books from Audible. Audible is an app that allows the user to download books for a monthly fee. I listen to novels while on walks, doing dishes, folding laundry, and even on my …
I have a recurring dream that's been happening since my early twenties. For some context, I really started traveling in my late-teens and twenties to all sorts of places. I solo traveled to places like Chicago, Seattle, and Vancouver BC, to name a few of my favorites. I discovered when traveling solo, I have a …
Currently Malcolm and I are exploring southern Colorado. He goes to Cortez, CO every now and then for work, and this time I tagged along. The drive down was absolutely gorgeous. Around each bend of the road (Just around the River Bend has never been a more relevant song), a new, even more picturesque view …
Colm and I went fishing last summer at Lake George and it was gorgeous! I highly recommend visiting if you’re close. Happy Friday, friends!
This is where the sand dunes meet the mountains. I was fascinated with the idea of hiking to find where the granules meet rock. It’s a difficult hike because sand, but we got close enough for me to zoom in and take this photo. Apparently the dunes began forming around 440,000 years ago. There was …
Mae Goes West 