New Year’s Eve!
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Joshua Tree: One Desert to Another
Our trip to Joshua Tree was just what the doctor ordered. Â We just went through a pretty long, thorough, house buying process, it’s the holiday season, and we’ve been working our butts off lately. Â A trip to the Joshua Tree Casita with our friends Tim & Merrill was the perfect retreat. Â If you haven’t been to Joshua Tree, we highly recommend it. Â We’re not sure why it took us so long to visit. There is just enough to do there to not feel like you’re the last man on earth, and there is so much open desert and sky to just turn off that ol’ brain of yours and get to relaxing.
We’re Going Driving with Capital One
His: J.Crew jacket | Tretorn boots | ASOS jeans and shirt | Herschel bag
Hers: J.Crew jacket (sold out — similar here) | Madewell sweater and jeans | Sézane loafers
We love traveling.  It’s a huge part of our lives and something that is very important for us to experience together.  Last year, we made the big decision to leave our 9-5 jobs, and go all in with our marketing/photography business, blogging full time.  It was probably one of, if not the scariest decision we have ever made, but (in the end) it has been incredibly rewarding. We mentioned a bit about our work transition a while back here. We were in the middle of a two week road trip and we were suddenly overwhelmed with positivity and a feeling of “Wow, we are in our car, working from the road together, and this needs to keep going”.  Lately, we’ve been thinking of this moment a lot.  We recently took a mini road trip to Joshua Tree and on the ride over we had a few flashbacks to that fall road trip a year ago and it felt good…it just felt like validation that we are where we are supposed to be and doing what we love.  After a full year of being full time freelancers together, we are still traveling together in the same car that kick started this crazy, beautiful journey.  We always laugh about when it was time for us to buy a new car in AZ. Our old car, Arthur as we liked to call him, was feeling pretty tired from the desert temps (he was a New Yorker at heart), and a reliable vehicle for long trips was pretty important to us.  At the time, we didn’t know how monumental that choice would be, but it turned out to be a pretty big deal. It wasn’t the easiest experience for us…we don’t know too much about cars, and going into a car dealership without a ton of knowledge about the process (particularly the financing aspect) can be pretty daunting.
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December Recap 2016
His: Tretorn 
Photography Tips + Tricks
We definitely don’t call ourselves “photographers”, we like to use the term: “photo-takers”. Haha! Since our dating days, we have been photographing everythingggg and have dozens of albums to prove it, but the photos were always on a point-and-shoot camera. Nothing too fancy. Over the last several years we became more serious about photography and like to think we’ve become a bit more savvy with our way around the camera. We are always so humbled when we receive an email from a reader asking about what camera we use, looking for pointers on photography. Here are a few tips + tricks we’ve picked up that have made taking photos on our travels and for the blog a little easier. 🙂
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