Waves crash over sea lions at Sea Lion Cave in Oregon
Hiking with Dayna through the forest on the Oregon Coast
So it’s been a couple weeks since Dayna and I returned from our epic road trip. We covered 3,413 miles and seven states … and I now am just able to sit down and take a look at what I have shot. It was an awesome trip. I have never taken a two week vacation before, nor have I really had the desire to. But then Dayna comes into my life and shows me there is so much more to life than just meeting deadlines. And our trip was just that, an experience in just letting go. There were only three goals on the trip. Survive the family reunion in Wyoming, mail off Dayna’s thesis paper to complete her third master’s degree and make it to the Oregon Coast. The lack of an agenda was really the vehicle by which we had the greatest time.

We survived the reunion with the help of my sister Nicole and her partner Leslie. We mailed the thesis paper off. Dayna aced it and now has a third master’s degree. And not only did we make it the Oregon Coast, we camped, we hiked, we biked, we drank, we played like little kids, we visited seven states, we went whale watching ( I puked off the side of a boat) we had a riot in San Francisco and I could go on forever. Now our goal is to get through the next few weeks. We need to get ready for a season on the mountain this winter (thank something that the evil that is summer will soon be coming to an end), finish our wedding planning and get ready for the honeymoon in Maui, Hawaii.
The ocean and Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach, Oregon
Shop keeper selling some fish type thing in Chinatown in San Francisco

Street Scene in Chinatown in San Franciso