personal post | 2016 EPIC SUMMER ROAD TRIP

4,737 MILES

16 CITIES

Lincoln, NE
North Platte, NE
Denver, CO

Veil, CO
St. George, Utah
Las Vegas, NV

Victorville, CA
Los Angeles, CA
Santa Barbara, CA
Malibu, CA

San Louis Obispo, CA
Big Sur, CA
San Francisco, CA
Sacramento, CA

Reno, NV
Salt Lake City, UT`

2 CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 4 1/2

Clay + Rachel (Us)
Zoe Jo (4 year old princess)
Cohen Eli (20 month old cracker-monster)

1 JEEP

Main Path: Blair, Nebraska to Denver, Colorado.
Denver, Colorado to Las Vegas, Nevada.
Las Vegas, Nevada to Santa Barbara, California.
Santa Barbara to San Francisco.
San Francisco to Salt Lake City, Utah.
Salt Lake City, Utah to Denver, Colorado.
Denver, Colorado to Blair, Nebraska.

As we set out on our journey, we were a bit nervous of what the possibilities could bring. Can our Jeep make it? Will our kids? Will we pull our hair out? Surely we can do it.

Come along! See! Let's go on a drive!

We stopped off in small town Aurora, NE (about three hours in to our drive) to see my best friend Triniti Jensen (fellow photographer).

Triniti was so thrilled to see us!

Zoe kept VERY busy with her bracelet making.

Cohen enjoyed the roll of tape.

We had to get our coffee fix! Zoe sucked down a vanilla bean frap. We are in North Platte here. So close to the Nebraska | Colorado border!

Oh hey, Denver!

Checking both ways! This little Mexican restaurant was only a block from our Air BnB.

5:30AM UPDATE

Zoe is out. Cohen is wondering why we are driving at 5:30 in the morning.

Today's agenda: Denver to Las Vegas

Here we go! Through the mountains!

Cohen finally fell asleep. :)

It was June. It was 34 degrees out.

BURRR.

Coffee time!

The kiddos were so excited to go through the tunnels!

Zoe loved the fresh air out her window.

We made it! Utah drive, here we come!!

Long day of driving- a total of 16 hours from Denver to Las Vegas.

Oh hey Las Vegas! Nice to see you. Getting up at 5:30am to drive paid off.

We made it to our hotel!

Zoe was ready to get to the pool!

Poor quality cell phone shots. Oh well! It helps tell the story, right??

This day was not well documented for the morning. Getting out of Las Vegas was rough. But stopping 4 hours into driving, hitting Victorville, CA to see these two was worth getting the camera back out! :)

Stretching our legs before getting back in the Jeep.

Mist from the ocean was thick.

We made it to Santa Barbara! Donut time before we hit the beach.

Zoe's first time seeing the Pacific Ocean.

Cohen loved doing yoga on the beach.

And he also loved rolling in the sand.

And eating the sand...

Here we are!! Our dear friends The Stutzmans' home in Santa Barbara!

Zoe slept on a blow up in their boys' room. All four kids slept in one room! Anthem + Durham Stutzman and Zoe + Cohen Wakefield! Sweet children talked themselves to sleep each night.