Nearly every small Western town we stopped in on our road trip over the holidays had an “antique” store like this one. Aisles and aisles of old cookbooks, silverplate candlestick holders, broken toys, old military medals, crocheted table clothes.
We couldn’t help ourselves; we almost always stopped and poked around. We used restraint and made no [...]

A ritual we quickly established on our road trip was for me to look up the next small town we were coming up to on my iPhone while he drove. I Wiki-ed dozens of tiny towns in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas. More often than not we enjoyed the “facts” of town, most of [...]

We had been contemplating what to do for our anniversary, until we saw a special for the Ace Hotel & Swim Club offered by Jetsetter on Gilt. Both longtime Californians, she had been to Palm Springs once, and me, never. I wanted to tell the story of the weekend in photos, but I realized upon [...]

One of the reasons for our impromptu road trip was that I wanted to go on a photography mission.  I have a very fancy Nikon that generally sits on a shelf while I snap away with my iPhone camera.  We pulled over to this beautiful grassy beach to relax and shoot some photos.  I took [...]