My best friend, Sammie, and I had been living in different states for a whole school year. We reunited in June, when I went to Santa Barbara to pick her up and we drove up to Seattle together. We spent a week making our way through the Sierra mountains, watching the landscape change through our bug-stained windshield, car-dancing to one of the 30 mix CDs we’d brought along. We stopped frequently along the way to hike and climb and to fantasize about living in a cave one day, subsisting on teriyaki beef jerky. I dreaded the moment when we’d reach our destination. I didn’t want the trip to ever end. One day I’m going to buy a school bus, and my friends and I will make it our home. No rent, no shitty jobs, and no daily worries except for flat tires and the changing gas prices.
Thanks to Sammie for letting me take a million pictures of her.
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OH MY these pictures completely capture what I want for the next year of my life when I attempt to road trip across the states.
I remember going to Yosemite and climbing Vernal Falls a year ago… ughhh thank you for the bittersweet flashback.
my favs: 10,14,29,32
this is so perfect that perfect isn’t even a good enough word to describe it. I wanna go on a roadtrip,sgahgxjdjekecuecoxneuhwigsyuwbwjbiosa.
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Love 10, 12, 13, & 14 . . . and this whole photo diary!
i live vicariously through rookie road trip photo albums
OMG SAME
such beautiful pictures
Whoa I do the exact same thing and didn’t even realize it until now until you put it so perfectly!
you just described my life perfectly
Wow, it must have been a dream. If I take any lengthy road trip through the U.S., it will be this one.
these are gorgeous. GORGEOUS.
This makes me want to pack up everything, grab some friends, and head out on some memorable road trip. Love this!
Amazing!
This is so perfect. Dream roadtrip!! This makes me so happy.
santa barbara to seattle seems like the best roadtrip route ever, def going to try one day. too beautiful for words.
Absolutely beautiful photos! I want to go to all these places.
This is wonderful!! It’s exactly what I ramble on to my best friend about when I imagine our future adventures. Thank you for sharing such a magical experience!
Much love <3
This pictures are absolutely gorgeous… what camera did you use? :)
oh gosh she is so pretty and I love her outfits !!! such a dreamy photo set !!
i’m from sacramento and that flat tire picture is pretty much the whole thing. excellently captured.
Holy cow, where can I get that teepee tent? it is perfection!
What a beautiful trip!!! Your photos are lovely and I really appreciate that you listed locations so we can all go there and have magical times of our own!!!
Beautiful photos, Chrissie.
These are incredible. Sounds like the greatest week in a lifetime.
Soooo beautiful
excuse me while i recreate all of maddie’s outfits. hiking chic is my jam, y’alllllllllll
The most beautiful photo set you guys have posted… Makes me extremely jealous and nostalgic.
LOVE these all! Particularly number 9. It seems like some of these places are too beautiful to be real
totally in love
These are too amazing to even exist! So beautiful places…
I really really really want to go on a roadtrip with my best friend now. <3
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and I’m in love with these clothes…
These are so beautiful, I cant stop flicking through them again and again
LOVE number 19… Superb
Looks heavenly like a dream
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I love LOVE all of these photos! and number 9… how?! it looks magical.
These pictures are SO amazing! Extremely jealous of the magic that they have on them :).
These are beautiful! What camera did you use?
I think I’m dead.
WOAH, this looks like so much fun!! I guess road trips in the States are probably more fun than in the UK… But even so, I really want to travel around Britain with my best friend now!! :D
How beautiful is that?!
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This looks like the best road trip EVER
I really want to hear more about this trip, it looks incredible – why does Britain not have anywhere like this?!
oh man oh man <33 and HER OUTFITS
Beautiful!
Now I really, really want to go on a roadtrip through the mountains…!
I love no. 6
Coming from Scotland this looks like an alien landscape to me, also makes me feel thirsty!
These are the most beautiful photos! Now my desire to road trip this summer is stronger than ever!
This is absolute eye candy! Those landscape shots are gorgeous, this place looks incredible.
xo, Tori
oh my goddddddd why can’t i have friends like this and why can’t my life be like this :((((( ugh
also the last photo is especially to wonderfully perfect for words and it makes me really happy and hopeful idk
best photos
Very very beautiful…gives me a big sense of wanderlust!
this is so dreamy and lovely!! me and my friends are planning on taking a road trip next summer after our senior year, and this eye candy gets me super excited
I think you guys should post an article with tips and advice on planning a roadtrip too, cause that would be super helpful and awesome to here from you guys who know from experience
I WILL be doing this one day. I already know who and what I’m bringing, what will be on my mix cds, and what I’ll wear.
so gorgeous!! bringing back memories of my summer road trip out west earlier this month… :)
This. Is. Incredible. Seriously. I have no other words to describe it. Wowowowowow. I want so badly to be doing stuff like this now.
this is so beautiful, it makes me want to get lost in a place like that.
Wow, wow, wow, wow.
Love all of these, the scenery is so beautiful.
this looks so beautiful
these are all so wonderful, i’m in love. i hope the memories are as beautiful as the photos make me think they are.
Amazing! I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to travel to somewhere more than I do now after seeing these pictures
how amazing!! i’ve always wanted to do something like this. a few of my friends did this summer, seems so lovely and fun!
Ummmmmm perfect
Definitely one of the best posts this year! beautiful photos!! Made me want to go on a road trip so badly. What camera did you use?? x
Wow. I love this so much. Ahhhhhh so beautiful and perfect and sfjsgfioerjgierjg and just the feelings from these. Ahhhhhhh <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
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the dream!
WOW.
I’m hope I get an answer to this question but..
WHAT KIND OF CAMERA WAS USED TO TAKE THESE GLORIOUS PICTURES?
How I wish I could do this with my own best friend. Lovely set!!
Wow! I need some friends I can do this with. I just really need to go on a road trip in general. One day I am just going to hop in a car and drive through all the states (excluding Hawaii and Alaska).
xoox
She looks like a fun person to be around! #14 is my favourite although they all look really gorgeous!
This reminds me so much of the 2 weeks I spent at Banff National Park in Alberta.. the scenery was equally as beautiful and I cried when I was leaving the mountains because, I too didn’t want the trip to end :’)
Oh wow these are so incredible, I so happy when I discover pictures that are both inspiring mindblowing! Chrissie, Sammie, I love you!!
so beautiful!!!! i just have to do this with my friends one day
this is one wonderful photo set !! *.*
anybody wanna go on a roadtrip with me? (:
xx cha