A Trip Like No Other (Ohh.. The Things You'll Find On Your Laptop)

About three years ago, boyfriend and I took a road trip.

Not just any road trip people.

The coolest, most bad ass road trip to date!

This is what we drove & this is where we stayed:

We call it..
"The Baja"
(pronounced: Ba-ha)
And I'm being completely serious.. I wouldn't joke around with you fine people. Okay. Maybe I would.. but not about this. Yes - it has no roof.. Yes - it has no doors.. Yes - there are seatbelts (five point harnesses to be exact - like a roller coaster has!) and Yes.. that's a roll cage..

Since this adventure occurred pre-blog era, I have decided to share some of the highlights with you now!

Dana's sister lives in a very small town in upstate New York. And three summers ago, we had the idea to drive his newly acquired "toy/totally road-legal vehicle" up to visit her.

It was a long (about 6 hours) and very chilly trip. But I thought you said this was in the summer time.. why would it be chilly and why are you wearing sweatshirts in all your photos?!

Welcome to New England.

 I remember the morning we were about to leave. My mother was desperately trying to convince us not to go. The forecast was predicting rain, and the sky was very overcast. (Plus: I'm not sure she completely trusted Dana driving me in this... thing. We had only been dating a year or so, and he's somewhat of a maniac behind any moving object.)

Ugh. Ha Ha. Hi babe. I love you..

 Regardless of the weather, we told her we'd be fine because we brought a tarp and we had plenty of ponchos in our clove box.

: )

I couldn't help but smile and laugh a little when I came across these photos on my laptop today. I hope our upcoming summer is filled with exciting and adventurous trips like this.

Who knows.. maybe we'll take the Baja somewhere?!

 *Exhibit A: Very gloomy skies. Freezing cold. The beginning of our trip*

*The crazy, big wooden chair we found while driving down a very boring road in NY - turned out not so boring*

*Hiking at Salmon Falls - near Pulaski, NY*

*Boyfriend & The Falls*
My most favorite photo from the trip

One night in our cabin...

City Lights

Some highlights from our New York City adventure yesterday. We pretty much covered all of Manhattan.. walking! It was tiring, but totally worth it. We saw some beautiful buildings and experienced true "city life" - well we at least got a taste of it.
My pictures probably don't do justice, but they'll give you an idea.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater - Where Alivia and I will be dancing for 6 weeks this summer!



A really interesting store. All the mannequins were sparkly and pretty!

Triangular building - looks flat from the side.


Photographer for the day - I had to get her a couple times ; )



My favorite parts of the whole day:

- eating the best cupcake in the world from "CRUMBS Bake Shop"
- seeing Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
- riding the subway
- going to Starbucks (and then wildly searching for one when we truly needed it.. only to realize that it was below us..)
- seeing people out walking a wide variety of dogs/puppies =]
- seeing central park
- walking right behind Tracy Inman (a teacher at Ailey who did our audition)
- wondering around with no plan of really going anywhere
- being a tourist
- going to Union Square's market thingy
- taking pictures
- looking at nice apartment buildings (from the outside anyway)
- thinking about living there this summer
- spending it with 3 great friends!