When moving home from California I had to decide if I should fly home and ship my stuff back or drive the 4,000 miles back to Canada. The decision was easy- ROAD TRIP! I have watched CrossRoads too many times (yeah, judge me) to know that this needed to happen.

We stopped in Vegas, Utah, Sante Fe, Texas, Oklahoma, St. Louis, and Chicago and from there…finally made it home! It was so incredible. Check out the video below to see the highlights of our adventure! (the footage/photos were taken on an Iphone so this is not any sort of Martin Scorsese masterpiece)

Here are some things I learned from this trip:

-Yelling/Rapping “Bitch, don’t kill my vibe” if a car infront of us was going painfully slow actually helps with the rage.

-If you start counting the IHOPS and Waffle Houses that you pass, you would be insanely alarmed.

-Chicago felt like a mix of New York and Toronto and is beyond clean (it was my first time there!). Only downfall is that Josh Hartnett does not wander around Wicker Park. UGH!
  

-You have a lot of time to think…mainly throughout the entire state of Oklahoma and Missouri.

-An old school map > Iphone GPS at times.

-It’s completely normal to get out of the car and have NO idea where you were. Shamrock? Cuba? Lebanon? We learned these are ACTUAL names of cities in the USA. Copycats.

-People in Middle America love God.

-Sending postcards to friends and family from where you are is so fun…even if they don’t get it for a week after you get home.

-Diesel gas is not like regular gas and can very much mess up your car. Thanks random trucker for saving my life.

-There is no gluten free or Kale in between the states of Texas to Chicago. This cannot be confirmed but I’m going to go ahead and just assume.

-Utah’s red rock route was my absolute favourite part of the drive.

-As we drove through Oklahoma, we quickly realized that the movie Twister was without a doubt filmed there. The drive consisted of high winds, big hail chunks and little mini “dust bunnies” (look like mini tornados but are not). It was scary as hell especially with an army of big trucks sandwiching us! I can only imagine the devastation going on there right now as I have witnessed how scary a regular storm is.

All in all, it felt so liberating being on the open road. We got to listen to some great jams and were not constricted or tied down once. Our hair was a mess…always and we didn’t have a care in the world. It was all of the little things on this trip that made it so memorable- taking that wrong turn and ending up at a cool diner,  catching a pink sky after an hour of light rain or buying ridiculous souvenirs from random shops.

So if I ever need to hide out from the world, I will come to Lake Powell.
We left Bryce Canyon and headed east towards Lake Powell- a mystical place that sits on the border of Utah and Arizona. Who says you can’t be in two places at once!?

It did a lot of things for us but mainly it turned our road trip into a HoliDAZEEE. We were rubbing our eyes in disbelief at some of the beautiful sites we got to witness along the border here.

Some of the fun things we got into: stumbling upon the most INSANE beach by fluke ( we were among the only people there) and changed at the side of the rode into our bathing suits so we could tan (so road-trippy!), crashing and touring the Amanrigi Resort which is basically the nicest place I have ever laid eyes on (we saw 4 random celebrities in the first 5 minutes of being there- we know where you hide out now!) and a nature hike to a look out point that is Pinterest worthy.

Jacket: Zara, Top: Brandy Melville, Shoes: Target, Hat: American Apparel

We travelled from Vegas to the Bryce Canyon area on Sunday which ended up taking about 4.5 hours to see the beauty of this National Park. It was a bit out of our way but SO VERY WORTH IT.

Whoever came up with the “7 wonders of the world” really needs to re-evalute the list because Bryce Canyon definitely needs to be on there. It is simply epic and one of those places that you need to see in person to truly understand the beauty of it. I felt like it was almost fake.

Instead of hiking through the park, we drove to the various view points and took in the views from there. We had planned to hike but after realizing this was where “127 hours” went down, we decided we will galavant around on wheels. Driving across America is adventurous enough at this point!