Welcome to our travel blog!

There is a lot of bullshit floating around in the world right now.  Like trying to swim in a swimming pool of pudding. No, I’ve never swum in a swimming pool of pudding, but I can imagine that it would be a wonderful nightmare.  Trying to keep your head above water while sucking down the delicious and decadent dark death.  Crooked Politics, Muslim extremist killing some group they hate, crazy, spoiled, middle-class, white kids shooting up schools, young black teenagers thinking they are gangster drug dealers from some movie, diseases we can’t control or just the monotonous hum of the fluorescent lights above your cubicle. Whatever it is, the world will suck you down and drown you.

Instead of trying to swim in the pudding, try sitting on the side of the pool with a spoon and taking small bites.  Now don’t get me wrong, I am not telling you to go quit your job, buy a truck and go drive all over America.  NO, you gotta keep working and living and dealing with the large swimming pool of pudding, but how you deal with it can be changed. Our adventures are about trying to show you how to take small bites, how to live AND have fun, give you some ideas on places to go, places to eat and seeing how awesome our country is once you remove the hectic and scary stuff.

“A couple of spoiled millennials with no jobs, living off a trust fund or Mommy and Daddy’s money, traveling all over the US are not going to tell me how to live my life”, yea probably what you are thinking.  Well, I really hate to disappoint anyone, but this assumption couldn’t be further from the truth.  Ok, so there is one thing that is true. We are millennials. But, are we two lazy ass douche bags wearing knit hats, skinny jeans, man buns and oversized flannel jackets sipping Starbucks as we watch the sun rise over some secluded mountain as I snap photos with my 1972 Leica? Haha, NO.  I am a US Army Veteran of 8 years and served overseas in Iraq.  Now I am photographer focusing on product photography and commercial photography in the tactical and firearm industry.  As much as I DO NOT like taking landscape photos, apparently I’m not that bad at it.  So many people enjoy my landscapes and portraits more than the products stuff so I frequently concede on the subject and snap the occasional landscape.

Rachel is an East Carolina University graduate student slated to graduate this spring with her Master’s Degree and she plans on tackling the Medical Family Therapy Doctoral Program head on.  She will be learning a lot of new things in the coming years and I’m not talking about therapy things, but photography, driving off-road, how to drive with a trailer, how to spot while I’m driving and cooking on the road.

We also have two smelly (they smell like Frito corn chips), drooly, lazy, loud basset hounds.  The description brings up images on Hooch drooling and destroying all of Tom Hank’s personal belongings or the Bumpuses’ dogs destroying the Christmas turkey. But they are the sweetest, most mild-mannered, “I need to snuggle”, dogs you’ll ever know.  Lilly is 8, 40lbs, has a great nose, is a little more aggressive, loves to track, and has a great motherly instinct.  Gus (Lilly’s son), is 6, 65lbs, not the best nose, loves to snuggle, thinks he is a lap dog, sleeps most of the day and enjoys a good steamed lobster when left too close to the edge of the counter.

This is “us”, take it or leave it, tear it apart and over analyze it, or accept us into your tribe.  We are more on the blunt side than on the “dance around the bush” side, but we like to have fun and hope you will join us on our adventures.  The blog is intended to be photo heavy and very descriptive.  We promise there won’t be any talk of politics and we won’t try and sell you a bible.

SO…Now we can do the fun stuff!