thank you everyone for your support!

to finish up our roadtrip posts, we’re putting up a couple of photos from san francisco. it seems that we were more successful at taking lots of photos in between the cities. what can we say, we just don’t like the touristy stuff!
san francisco is a really amazing city by the way. those hills are like nothing we’ve ever seen elsewhere!

bonus picture of our car, after we drove on the salt flats (just outside salt lake city) on our way home.

we were so sad to leave sunny, warm orange county, but alas, we had to be moving on so we headed up the coast for a two day drive on highway 1. we had a bit of everything during that time: rain, hail, sun, fog, even a bit of snow at some point, but no matter what, it was always breathtakingly beautiful.

we had the chance to drive through redwood national park in northern california which was pretty spectacular. the trees are all freaking huge!

we’ll do our best to post again, but our computer has died and gone to computer heaven (or something like that) so we’re forced to work on our friends’ computers when we are not in a motel room. we apologize for the inconvinience this seems to have caused some of you (i mean you, magi!).

while we were in orange county, our friends/hosts, mj and mike, introduced us to our latest obsession: eichler homes. we totally fell in love with these mid-century modern houses, built in the 1950s by john eichler, and we spent much of our time driving around “house-hunting.” this caused a bit of a stir for our facebook friends who were concerned that we’d be moving there permanantly (and we are quite tempted!) but we’re happy just checking these out while we’re visiting. they were only built in california (except for 2 in new york state) and finding their neighborhoods has become a fun treasure hunt for us.

these will probably be some of the least attractive photos we’ve posted on our blog thus far, but nevertheless, we had to share some with you!

let me start this post by apologizing for the long absence. we have been relaxing in SoCal, hopping from one house to an other. we are so lucky to have great friends out here who have kindly let us stay with them for several days at a time. we spent last weekend with tavia + ruben in san diego, who we also did an engagement shoot with (photos will be up on our d+d blog tomorrow!). the change in travel pace has forced us into taking less photos, but we’re heading up the coast (highway 1) tomorrow so we promise to post photos from that trek as soon as we get to san fransisco. enjoy these in the meantime!

we went with ruben to walk his friend’s dog, who had the cutest underbite!

a few from balboa park:

the view of the pacific ocean from loma point, our furthest point from home:

we love being surrounded by palm trees…

after a couple of days on the road to get back to new mexico, we drove right into the biggest snow storm we had seen in a while. it didn’t stop us from getting some photos of the landscapes, but we didn’t see as much of santa fe as we would’ve like to. if anyone is getting married in that area, we’d love to come back!

probably the scariest bridge in the usa.

at least we got to have some incredible mexican specialties.

we took this photo of us, in the middle of the desert, in between two pueblos (we were on a rocky dirt road for a good half hour)

we’ve travelled back to new mexico, which is just as beautiful as we left it last week. on our way here, we hit route 66, drove through the grand canyon, climbed (in our car) up the rockies in colorado, and we are now in taos – a small town close to santa fe. here are some of our photos from all our last few stops.

the next few photos are from monument valley, on the border of arizona & utah:

little mountain town of silverton, which was recommended to us by photographer brett butterstein:

the incredible rio grande canyon:

bonus picture of what we’ve resorted to for our meals (only sometimes):

after a few exhausting days in vegas for a photography conference, we got back on the road and were happy to leave the craziness of sin city. our first stop was the grand canyon (photos coming up), after which we drove around the 4 corners and ended up in durango, colorado where photographer brett butterstein and his wife mandy generously offered us to stay with them. it gave us a chance to scan some of the polaroids we have been taking along the way. our hosts have just prepared us some amazing crepes, so we’re going to get to those! we promise to start blogging more often in the next few days!

our long drive to las vegas took us through arizona today, which was some of the best scenery we’ve encountered so far on our trip.

and just look at those clouds!

white sands was one of the places we were looking forward to the most on this trip and it didn’t disappoint! as a matter of fact, what we have seen of new mexico so far has blown our minds. we are taking a detour to las vegas to attend wppi (the biggest conference for photographers), but will drive back into n.m. to visit santa fe & taos. we can’t wait!