Happy New Year!

I’ve been a bad blogger, but I’ve got an excuse! On the 12th of December I flew out to meet up with Erinn at her parents’ place in Emerald Isle, N.C. After a wonderful week there with her family we took off on a cross-country road trip with the purpose of moving Erinn’s belongings from her home in Peoria out to our place in L.A. I’ve been out here solo since September and am glad she’s finally able to join me! Our road trip took us from Emerald Isle through Asheville, where we visited my friend Cameron, up to Peoria, where we were able to catch up with my friend and former housemate Adam and a few of Erinn’s friends and also had the pleasure of packing Erinn’s entire powerless apartment into her car in -3 degree, post-ice-storm weather. From there we headed southwest through Tulsa and Albuquerque en route to a rendezvous with my mom and sister in Flagstaff, Ariz., where we spent Christmas week in an amazing mountain home, courtesy of Lauren’s Tucson landlord, surrounded by several feet of fresh powder snow. Finally, we made our way to our ultimate destination on the 29th in time to be here for what turned out to be a fairly quiet, but memorable New Year’s Eve complete with a fireworks show completely obscured by a dense fog that covered the coast the entire day. It was a great trip from start to finish, but I’m happy to be back home and ready to get back to work. And hopefully I’ll be better about putting up new work now that things are back to normal.

Tree decorating in N.C.

Emerald Isle starfish

An homage to “Planet Earth”

Tail lights

Buffalo Trace distillery; Frankfort, Kent.

Peoria at -3 degrees

No power hair dryer

Erinn’s first tumbleweed encounter; somewhere near Amarillo, Tex.

Tumbleweed pom pom

Canyon de Chelly, Ariz.

Flagstaff bedroom

Wood fires take awhile to heat an entire house

Picture window

Santa!

Snow, snow, snow

Snowman building

5:30 a.m. after a faulty fire alarm woke us all up

Sunshine

Yellow

Yoga

Classic

Sherlock 1

Sherlock 2

Cruising Flagstaff

The trap works!

Quiet time

Crystalline windshield

Grand Canyon!

From the lodge

Sedona, Ariz. chapel