road trip

Last but not Least

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Six years later, one baby, one husband, one new career, two living location change ups … and we’ve finally finished the last video from our road trip in 2015 (Georgia TBD, and recut of Vancouver island since Vidme streaming went out of business and took that edit down forever with it ::whomp, whomp::). This one is a doozy coming in at eleven minutes long, so get comfortable and pop some popcorn!

The last half of this journey was HOT, HOT, HOT! Going from Texas to New Mexico to Phoenix, the degrees just kept going up, but I guess that’s what we get for driving North first! We loved getting to see the last of our National Parks among this leg since we hadn’t experienced many on the later half of our road trip. As our trip was coming to an end we tried to fit in AS MUCH as we could in order to cap out our life changing experience - and I think we did :)

We hope you’ve enjoyed coming along for the ride, getting to see some amazing sites and watching us be crazy women doing crazy things. We look back quite often and remember how exciting this opportunity was and how lucky we were to be in the right place in our lives to be able to take the leap.

We also loved getting to team up with Reddy2Fight in order to visit children along the way that are fighting battles they should never have to. Please consider donating to Reddy2Fight so they can continue to make children happy whilst they fight to be healthy, especially during these times when visitors are limited in a hospital setting.

We do eventually need to finish the last leg that we had to cut short - Grand Canyon, Havasu, San Diego, Zion National Park etc. Along the way on this road trip I was actually offered a job as an Executive Assistant that has now progressed to working directly in Television and moved me to California. So I left from Phoenix to meet my bosses in Greece while Sam ended out her portion by driving back to LA and wrapping up her Los Angeles life to move back to Palm Harbor, Florida where she eventually met her husband and now has the cutest baby nugget ever.

We can’t thank everyone enough for your contributions and encouraging us along the way and hope to be apart of some amazing adventures in the future <3

Always,

Katie and Sam

Texas Truckin'

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PASSWORD: texas

Well, I was right in saying that it would be another year before one of these suckers were completed! I had some extra free time with everything happening in the world at the moment and thought everyone may need some fun content to pass …. seven minutes of your time. Not much of a detailed blog anymore since this road trip happened in 2015, yes, 2015. I think the vlog pretty much somes it up. I think the only things not pictured is a bike pub-crawl we took around downtown, some AMAZING Vintage shopping and stripping down to our skivvies to escape the HOT, MUGGY, Austin summer weather.

Hope you enjoy,

Katie and Sam

Things we learned:

  1. Summer in Texas is HOT - if needed you can go to Barton Creek (the free side) and skinny dip with 100 of your closest friends.

  2. When moving a bike into a house to not be stolen make sure you weigh more than the bike or it will pull you down, landing on concrete stairs.

  3. Two-stepping is a lot of fun!

  4. River floats are NEVER ‘leisurely.’

  5. We can’t believe we did this road trip without driving gloves.

A little bit of here, A little bit of there

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Password: EastCoast

I'm not sure if anyone will believe it but these videos are still coming after two years!! Counting down until the finale of the Great American Roadtrip. We drifted down the east coast making stop after stop in pretty quick succession, after our long stay in New York. Our first stop was a quick hop, skip and jump away to New Hope, Pennsylvania. One of my good buddies, Bryan Schreck, is from this quaint town. Schreck and I met in college at UCF, living in the height of wake skating, 'The House', The Pub, frat ice luge's and the list could go on. Unfortunately for us, Orlando-ians, he decided to leave after college to return to his hometown. Lucky for Sam and myself though, he had a nice warm house that we could visit with him and his sister, Nell. It was very nice to see them and walk through their hometown that I've heard so much about for many years. Before heading out the next morning we watched the Scientology based movie, 'Going Clear'.....all I will say is, pretty eye-opening to a religion I've literally grown up around living near Clearwater. Moving on.

Our next destination we decided to stop in Washington DC, our capital. This was my first time here. We stayed with Sami's EX, Dylan. He was a gracious host even though he was down for the count with a bum leg. We decided to do the regular tourist monument walk to see some of what has contributed to our American history. All of the places we visited were great and bucket list checking for myself. I can say though, I was not prepared for how hot and humid DC was. I think by the time we hit the Lincoln Memorial both Sami and I were melting. Alas, here we were able to complete one our challenges given to us by Sami's grandparents. Their original challenge was to walk up the Washington monument/memorial, but we soon learned that that ritual is no longer allowed by tourists... probably on account of too many heart attacks, especially in that damn heat!

 We had the privilege of meeting up with one of our high school friends, Sarah. We had a great time catching up with her, her fiancé (now husband) and her brother and sister. We ate drank and were merry until it was time to find our way home that evening. I can say it has been extremely nice to see old friends and faces that everyone tends to lose touch with through the years!

Our next stop was to visit Sami's grandparents in Virginia. This was the first time I had the pleasure of meeting them and it was nothing but great! They knew we were ready for some comfort food and a big cozy bed! We dined on a feast that night and indulged in wine while watching TV without judgement: Shout Out to 'Heart of Dixie!' We didn't actually visit any tourist spots, but that was exactly what the road trip ordered for this stop!

Leaving their house in the morning we made a long trek down to Charlotte, North Carolina to stay with my friend Shauna and her BF Brendan. Thankfully they accepted us with open arms and we enjoyed dinner together and then an exciting night out at ...if I can remember correctly... the Thirsty Beaver?? If you were to guess this is a semi hole in the wall bar with great charm and lighting you would be correct. My buddy, Brett, gladly met us out as the Thirsty Beaver is one of his favs. We enjoyed some beers and laughs and retired to sleep that evening. 

The next morning we bid our farewells and started our way to Georgia where I would get to see my cute puppy, Nixon. But that is for another blog :)

Until Then,

Katie and Sam

Things we learned:

  1. Staying with an EX...probably isn't a good idea
  2. DC can be exTREMely hot
  3. Grandparents can always give you a second wind
  4. We've got friends in cool places where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases our sleep away!