Location: Joshua Tree, CA

I spent memorial day weekend taking in the alien landscape of the Mojave Desert. Climbed up and over giant boulders that looked like the crumbling ruins of Easter Island statues to take in sunsets that painted the sky in garish technicolor rainbows. Watched bats zigzagging through the air at dusk, saw more stars than I've ever seen in my life, and found myself humbled by the silence and stillness. The desert is a perfect microcosm of the beauty and harshness in the world.

Location: Natchez, Mississippi

Spent a lovely few days in the picturesque Southern town of Natchez, MS for a cousin's wedding. Although steeped in history, it has an artisanal coffee shop, so it's not completely suck in the past.

2014, a Year Well-Lived

Sunset from Pruitt Ridge Campground, Big Sur, CA

Protective prayer painted in taxicab roof, Bangkok, Thailand // tiled floors of the Doi Suthep temple in Chiang Mai, Thailand

Lotus flowers for making offerings at Doi Suthep temple, Chiang Mai, Thailand 

Camping at Alabama Hills in Lone Pine, CA 

Beyonce concert at AT&T Park, San Francisco 

Longtail boats docked at Railay Beach, Thailand 

Bang Bang Bar, Railay Beach, Thailand 

Longtail boat ride Andaman Sea, Thailand // Perfect afternoon reading spot Railay Beach, Thailand 

Whale watching, Rancho Pescadero, Pescadero Beach, Mexico 

Home away from home in New Orleans, our Air BnB apartment, built circa 1870 

Truck camping with dog 

Waterfall, Feather River in Plumas National Forest, CA 

Rooftop pool at Terminal 21 Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand 

Sunset at Pruitt Ridge, Big Sur, CA

This photo set is clearly not representative of say, any given Tuesday in 2014, but then again you probably wouldn't care to see pictures of me sitting at a desk hunched over chewing on my cuticles. We'll call this my world through rose-colored glasses aka all the cool shit I did that was worth putting on Instagram.