Road Trip!

Hello all! First of all, let it be known that I'm still figuring out this thing and it has not yet achieved the cutesyness level that I'd like, but for now we'll just go with it. Sooooo, I'm trying to think of where to start. Yes, I could start with the most important, our wedding, but I'd really like to have some profesh pictures to go along with it. I'll just have to do a 'rewind' blog for that. Therefore, I'll start with the our very looooong road trip to CA.

Day 1 - So the whole trip took 3 days, 2 nights, which doesn't sound THAT long when you say it, but oh to the contrary! Google maps tells you that the trip from Picayune, MS to our new home in Studio City is exactly 1,931 miles long and we drove every one of em! When starting the trip I thought it'd be fun to stop and take pictures by every "Welcome to (insert state)" sign excluding LA (since my home town is exactly 10-15 mins or so from the state line it's nothing new to me. Sorry LA I still love you!) I did, however, want to take one with the TX sign, but we completely missed it.. Whoops! The first day wasn't so bad. Although, we did hit some crazy thunderstorms (surprise surprise.. our whole wedding weekend it rained.. but that's another story), but relatively uneventful. That first night we stayed in a town about an hour past San Antonia, TX.

Day 2 - This day was probably the most painful. Does anyone know how WIDE TX is?! Not to mention, there is absolutely NOTHING in west TX. (Dear God, please don't ever move me to west TX. Amen.) Land... that's it. At one point, I remember we couldn't even find a radio station without static.. just one country one I believe. And, no, not current country music. More of a "I feel like I'm living in the 1950's" country music. Here's what we could see out of our car.

West TX.. ain't she a beauty?

After we finally made it out of that ridiculously large state we made it to New Mexico, which was exciting for me because I've never been there. Here we took our first road sign picture!

Next, we crossed over to Arizona (again another state I've never seen). Although, the state is a desert, it has its own unique beauty. So cool, going from the land of swamps and humidity and reaching the high and dry desert. 

He loves taking these pictures.

Gorgeous!

Cactus

That night we stayed in Tucson and were ready to drive to our new home the next morning.

Day 3 - We kind of took our time getting up this morning since we didn't have as long of drive this day. After driving through AZ for a few more hours, CA was getting near and I was getting anxious. Somehow, I assumed that as soon as we crossed over the state line there would be palm trees and cooler weather. That was not the case. It was still desertish, hot, and we were greeted by friendly boarder patrol ;).

Boarder Patrol

Unfortunately, there was nowhere to post my camera for our usual self-timer photos, so Luke generously opted to be the picture-taker this time.

A few more hours in and we made it to our apartment. And yes, there were lots of palm trees, cooler weather, and crazy traffic! But we made it! At this point, I was over taking pictures and we immediately  unloaded our vehicle and ditched the uhaul! Although, this trip was long.. it was an experience and I wouldn't have wanted to make it with anyone else besides my Luke. Extra kudos to him for driving most of the way and his willingness to pull over when I wanted to take pictures. He's such a trooper! So that's our road trip, such an eventful way to our new life together!