being Rachy

Sunday, July 12, 2015

The A-MAYES-ING Adventure: San Diego

Day 3 (May 29th) was spent exploring all of San Diego and then in the evening meeting up with a friends who also came to San Diego for a friend's wedding that would take place the next day. We visited Cabrillo National Monument, La Jolla (again), Torrey Pines State Park, and La Jolla (again). We went to La Jolla a lot!

Cabrillo National Monument celebrates Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, the first European explorer who set foot on the West Coast in 1542.

Behind us is the actually monument. The area overlooks the ocean and downtown San Diego.

There's a naval base close by so we saw big ships coming in and out along with this helicopter. And you can see the city!

There was also a lighthouse there!

Now we are hiking in Torrey Pines State Park. There were tons of trails that led you to different beautiful views of the ocean.

We're still at Torrey Pines State Park. There was a trail that led you down to the beach!

One of my friends that came out for the wedding was Sarah, my college roommate!

Sunset behind us! We're at La Jolla again!

The lighting is super weird/cool here. Oh! And there's a little sea lion sleeping there too!

Thursday, July 9, 2015

The A-MAYES-ING Adventure: Las Cruces to San Diego

Day #2. Driving from Las Cruces to San Diego. I thought that West Texas was going to be barren and desolate and devoid of life, but I was wrong. The southwest portion of Arizona along Interstate 8 was devoid of life. Except for tons of cacti.

Interstate 10 through New Mexico.

A lot of interesting terrain we drove through!

Good thing we had good weather!

Look closely and you'll see tons of cacti!

Getting off of Interstate 10 and onto Interstate 8.

This picture was taking at a run-down gas station in the middle of no where.

Literally, this was the MIDDLE OF NO WHERE!

We went over TONS of little mountain ranges.

So this is in the afternoon but oddly our cell phones switched into Pacific Time early in the morning?

This is real. I took this with my camera. I PROMISE!

Last mountain range to pass over before getting into San Diego.

This was a HUGE mountain range to pass over. Very brown and rocky.

Notice it looks a little greener? We're descending down and getting closer to the Pacific Coast!

Waiting in line at Border Patrol.

Those numbers are kind of crazy!

Can't drive west any further. It was nice and cool and beautiful!

Here we are at La Jolla listening to all the sea lions bark!

And this is the end of Day 2!!!

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

The A-MAYES-ING Adventure: College Station to Las Cruces

I took 3,800 pictures during this three and a half week adventure on my DSLR camera. Yeah. I know.

I really want to share with people pictures and stories from our trip, but then I get overwhelmed when I think of how I can share everything that happened because SO MUCH happened. And I don't think you want to look at 1,000 pictures even.

So here's how this is going to work. I'm going to blog each segment of our journey separately and then post a few pictures on Facebook. You can follow along and experience our journey!

First segment: College Station to Las Cruces.

The first day we drove from College Station to Las Cruces, NM which was about 11 hours. We left at 9 in the morning and got into Mountain Time zone. I had imagined the drive on I-10 through West Texas would be flat, dusty and boring. But I was wrong! It was hilly with some small mountains! Scroll through the pictures for the rest of the story!!