Stuck in a Truck

The California lifestyle is sweet, slow, and full of color. It is so colorful here. Colorful flowers, colorful buildings, colorful sunsets. The homes in our Santa Cruz neighborhood are all pinks, blues, and pastel colors with little nautical touches. Every driveway seems to have an antique car just waiting to be fixed up. The pinkest roses I’ve ever seen are spilling over our neighbor’s fence onto the sidewalk while their wetsuits hang to dry alongside them. It’s such a treat to have so many things still blooming here in November. The succulent plants are thriving and gorgeous and everywhere. Cacti stand tall in front yards between flowers of red, purple, and orange. The streets are full of life. Its mostly surfers lugging their boards to the beach, with their sun-bleached hair and sandy feet. There's an oceanside walking path just a short walk away where you can watch them, sooo many of them, bobbing in the waves waiting for the right moment to catch their ride. From a distance, i...

Feeling grateful after a month of family and friend time in Truckee, CA. We shared our space with close friends from home, nestled away at the very top of the Tahoe Donner neighborhood, tucked between massive ponderosa pines that dropped their needles on our trucks and driveway. Our home for the month was a cabin-style getaway on a street full of other cabin-style getaways you would find when renting a place at a ski mountain. Brown cabin after brown cabin lined the streets, each with giant windows that let the sun in and brown, metal trash bins fitted with special locks so the bears couldn’t get into them. The houses looked so similiar, that even on the last day we were there, I still had to look at the number on the house to confirm it was ours. It was cozy inside, though. Matt kept the woodstove going most nights, as the temperatures really cooled down once the sun set at night. Gus shared the space with a new friend, Cooper. We were hoping they would be besties by the end of the mo...