An Epic Road Trip across the U.S. Just a single mom showing her daughter some of the world.

in #travel8 years ago (edited)

My photo journal Moving across the US with my daughter.

Washington State

Rainbow over the valley I grew up in...saying goodbye...


Snoqualmie Falls, about a minute away from my high school. During school I worked at the lodge at the top....you can kinda see it in the left top corner. BEAUTIFUL PLACE called the Salish.

Ice on the roof of our car

Oregon


Yes, we took the dog with us. Meet Lucy.

Seaside





California

Hiking the Red Wood Forest



Am I seeing things? Night driving...

Moonstone Beach

She reminds me of Mowgil from The Jungle Book running with the pack



Hollywood

lol its an inside joke...apparently I looked like Britney before Britney...see the next photo

Throw back! Me in high school, standing beside my dad on Thanksgiving

Wax Museum




"Can I name drop now?"




Ripley's Believe it or not, this was done entirely in regular Crayola Crayon....Mind Blown


Saber tooth bones!

Looking for the Hollywood sign, up in the Hollywood hills

Huntington Beach



I have the outline of my daughters left hand tattooed in mine, from the day she was born.

Nevada

Las Vegas....my sleepy girl staying up to see the lights


Hanging with dolphins and big cats...because why not!?




Hover Damn

On top of the Hover Damn

Arizona

The Grand Canyon



Utah

Monument Valley

Wild horses

Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico

Four Corners, standing on a piece of 4 states at once.

Colorado


The Rockies

Ghost town

On Top of the Rockies


A little place called Aspen

My little helper

Wyoming

Cheyenne Museum



Hotel life...Lucy and I

Nebraska

Lots and lots of open road


Every kid need to experience a comic book. ...loved her giggles.

Missouri

St.. Louis

Illinois

Rockford

The House and street where my Swedish side of the family first lived when they came from Sweden. My grandparents were married in the front yard...I had always heard stories so I had to see for myself.

They fell in love walking to and from school on this street.

We did a 5k vibe color run while we were here...I wore an old wedding dress, we had a blast!




Kentucky

Mississippi River

Tennessee

We made it!! Nashville

First Dinner here. OK, balloon guy...your freaking out my child. lol

"Sit straight baby." I kept trying to tell her. giggle

Shopping for a tent...we haven't found a home yet so, camping it is.

Percy Priest Lake, Our new temporary home till i found us a house


She has a lot to learn...



OMG the spiders are huge here...DONE camping, we thought by the sound this was a mouse!

CMA 3 day festival, her first concert experience

Our seats were really close to the stage


Behind us

A million beach balls headed our way

The love of my life...can't wait to show her more.

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Would you consider coming to London?

Most definitely!!

This post is the essence of life! Amazing!

Yes! The Britney photo :) haha

This is an adorable post, by the way.

Beautiful photos, even better memories. Your daughter will never forget this. You're a great mom. I defo saw 'Britney' too !

I think you just put me into cute overload. :) So many good photos. I think your daughter will remember it forever.

Wow awesome story in pics. And I live in Nashville ! Maybe we need a Steemit meetup in Nashville!!

much photos many wow

That was a beautiful spider. :-)

Thank you for sharing your trip with us.

Whoa! Incredible post with some great pics and story! Welcome to Steemit! :)

very nice travelling @katecloud cheers full

I really love all that you are doing with your daughter. What cool ways to spend time together. Looks like you both have quite a bit of personality and fun and that's not mentioning your puppy. (Lucy is a special name to me because my niece Lucy was born in a firehouse because of all the snow preventing travel to the hospital Lucy Grace Hojnacki )

Thanls for sharing a little snapshot into the love / life you and your daughter (and furry four legged daughter) share together. It's a beautiful thing!

Wow this is wonderful! Wish I could have done this with my mother when I was a girl. You are a great mom! Your daughter is lucky to have you. Beautiful pictures!

Loved the trip idea and photo story. One suggestion would be to reduce the size of photos -- this would improve their quality and clearness.

very touching

Just awesome, amazing post!

Hope to see you in Chile someday

I absolutely love this, @katecloud. Seriously amazing.