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This is day 3/10 of travel photos. ✈️ This was taken in Vienna, Austria, and I’m 20 years old. In the first photo, I’m running through a maze of an arbor at the Belvedere Schlossgarten—a magical, magical place! In the second photo, I’m wearing a hat I had just bought in Paris. I’m still wearing the ring that is on my left hand because it’s a tiny diamond ring Jeremy @beavateasa had just gotten me at an antique shop while we were in Prague together. I was at a cafe with my friend Bria. If you know me, you know I treat life like a big costume theme party. So if I’m going to sit at an outdoor cafe in Europe, then by golly I’ll wearing the biggest hat I can find 😉😆 Sadly, Facebook deleted my first profile account so I only have a handful of photos from living there—all of them were photos someone else took & uploaded. Thanks, Bria, for snapping this little memory 🤍 Gosh, I miss this chapter of my life....it was so fun & full of adventure & incredible new friends. It really was a formative part of my life.
This is day 2/10 of travel photos. I was nominated by my friend @adventureswithshawnandautumn . Each day I will post a photo of my travels without explanation* and will nominate someone to take up the challenge. That’s 10 photos, 10 nominations, 10 happy memories. Today, I nominate @codieannie . #travelchallenge *oh come on! It’s me we’re talking about...no way I’m posting without explanation! 🤣 This was taken at White Sands, NM. It remains one of my favorite camping experiences EVER. It was UNREAL. White sand dunes in all directions as far as the eye could see (actually, it wasn’t sand...it was gypsum!!). No fires were allowed (not that there was any wood around anyways) so we used a little portable stovetop. We forgot to bring bowls or pans, so we sliced open empty beer cans (didn’t forget those! 🤣) & cooked in those. It was a little nerve wracking finding our reserved “campsite”. There were only a handful of “sites”. I put this in quote-marks because there was nothing to denote a site except a woode stake in the ever-changing sand dunes. There was a sort of trail marking the way by climbing a dune & then searching & searching for where the next stake was until you found a stake with your number on it. Multiple campers have DIED in this pure white desert because it’s very easy to get lost in this blank canvas of earth. We got to our spot & witnessed a breathtaking sunset. I packed an evening gown *of course* 😆😉 & frolicked around in the dunes in ecstasy. Some of my favorite photos are the ones Jeremy @beavateasa snapped on this evening. We just *PLAYED*. There was literally nothing else to do but run around like wildlings exploring this epic negative space. At nightfall, we witnessed the most breathtaking sky full of stars. Never have I seen such a clear & sparkling sky. The next morning, we rode waxed plastic sleds down the dunes! It was such a unique experience. 🤍🤍🤍🤍
There’s a #travelchallenge going around on Facebook where you post a pic every day of past travels without a caption..but, oh come on! It’s me we’re talking about...no way I’m posting without explanation! 🤣 I wanted to share these sweet memories on Insta, too. I love this pic of little Faera on a tiny remote island in San Blas Islands, Panama, which is more like off the coast of Cuba. It’s part of the Guna Yala tribe—the very short indigenous peoples who own the islands as a separate territory & speak their own version of a sort of Spanish language that is not easy to translate. We stayed on this island for a few days with a handful of Guna Yala who owned it. They fished everyday & made us fresh meals that they had just caught. There was no electricity & we had just our backpacks & slept in an open air shack/hut with a thatched roof. I forgot to pack diapers for Faera, so I just kept washing her in the ocean in this swimsuit bottom 🤣 It was a magical experience for me. The Caribbean water was such a vivid blue!
Another day, another slow walk, another glorious spring, another bouquet of wildflowers plucked by the sweetest children. I love that they even see grass as an ornamental flower. I love seeing the world through their fresh lens again 🤍
We went for a walk around the block yesterday & the girls picked a big bundle of wildflowers for me 🥰 We met a new neighbor pushing a stroller with a newborn & a little girl whose age is right in between mine. We let them play for a good 30 minutes together in a shady grassy spot. We decided to stroll together but were stopped only two minutes later by another friendly neighbor we hadn’t met before. The girls were now all pretending to be butterflies and we all marveled at how beautiful tiny girls in spring time can be. Then she invited us into her garden, tucked behind a picket fence. It was incredibly whimsical and full of little garden statues of frogs and lizards, hiding in the vines and jungly plants. She had a cozy sitting area on a shady patio and brought out cold water for everyone. The girls continued to play in this wonderland for an hour as all three of us ladies—strangers just moments before—chatted about everything under the sun. ...eventually we made it home & our initial “ten minute walk” had become more like a two-hour adventure. I’m just incredibly grateful for this current slow pace and even more grateful for community after a year of isolating. I’m grateful for springtime & little girls who show us adults how to be *present* and just enjoy life to the fullest 🌸
The girls built a fort in the living room this evening 😍✨ We’ve gone “furniture free” in our household, but I do still have an office chair. Etta dragged that into the living room to get some height. It’s more challenging to build forts when there’s a lack of dining sets & armchairs, but they got creative! 😆🙌🏻 It’s just magical to hear their whispers & giggles
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